[141] Lit. having made its coldness exactly alike for bad people and good people, pervades them.

[142] i.e. alternately from the first to the tenth and from the tenth to the first.

[143] i.e. put the first last.

[144] Vijesinha.

[145] Vijesinha writes to me, “Natural and intrinsic virtues. The Sinhalese gloss says: paramārthavū rasasahitavū lakshaṇa-œti nohot svabhāvalakshaṇa hā sarvadharmasādhāraṇalakshaṇa-œti. In the latter case it would mean, having the quality of conformity with all laws.”

[146] Vij. says, “In that order, viz. in the Saraṇāgamana first, then in the Pañcasīla, then in the Dasasīla, and so on.”

[147] Lit. “arithmetically innumerable.”

[148] The Banyan-tree.

[149] The three divisions of the Buddhist Scriptures.

[150] The formula by which a Buddha admits a layman to the priesthood.