[73] These 'four stages' are described in the same manner in the canonical books of Ceylon and Nepal, and may therefore safely be ascribed to that original form of Buddhism from which the Southern and the Northern schools branched off at a later period. See Burnouf, 'Lotus de la bonne Loi,' p. 800.
[74] See Burnouf, 'Lotus de la bonne Loi,' p. 814.
[75] See the 'Dhammapadam,' a Pâli work on Buddhist ethics, lately edited by V. Fausböll, a distinguished pupil of Professor Westergaard, at Copenhagen. The Rev. Spence Hardy ('Eastern Monachism,' p. 169) writes: 'A collection might be made from the precepts of this work, that in the purity of its ethics could scarcely be equalled from any other heathen author.' Mr. Knighton, when speaking of the same work in his 'History of Ceylon' (p. 77), remarks: 'In it we have exemplified a code of morality, and a list of precepts, which, for pureness, excellence, and wisdom, is only second to that of the Divine Lawgiver himself.'
[76] 'Mahavanso,' ed. G. Turnour, Ceylon, 1837, p. 71.
[77] See 'Foe Koue Ki,' p. 41, and xxxviii. preface.
[78] See 'Foe Koue Ki,' p. 41.
[79] 'Lalita-Vistara,' ed. Foucaux, p. xvii. n.
[80] 'Lalita-Vistara,' p. 17.
[81] Two parts of the Sanskrit text have been published in the 'Bibliotheca Indica.'
[82] They have since been published.