[12] Lassen, ii. 52, n. 1, and 74, n. 6; and i. 356, n. 1.
[13] Professor Wilson seems to have been so much perplexed by these divergencies of chronology, that in a paper by him, published in Journ. of R. As. Soc. vol. xvi. art. 13, he endeavours to show on this (and also on other grounds) that it is possible no such person ever existed at all!
[14] See Burnouf, p. 348, n. 3; see also infra, n. 3 to “The False Friend;” also note 2 to “Vikramâditja’s Birth.”
[15] Supra, Notice of Vikramâditja, pp. 238, 239.
[16] “Only about a hundred years elapsed between the visit of Fa-Hian to India and that of Soung-yun, and in the interval the absurd traditions respecting Sâkya-Muni’s life and actions would appear to have been infinitely multiplied, enlarged, and distorted.” (Lieut.-Col. Sykes’ Notes on the Religious, Moral, and Political State of Ancient India, in Journ. of R. As. Soc. No. xii. p. 280.)
[17] Turnour, in Journ. of As. Soc. of Bengal, 722.
[18] Lassen, ii. 440.
[19] Lassen, ii. 453, 454.
[20] Burnouf, Introd. a l’Hist. du Buddh. i. 137.
[21] Burnouf, Introd. &c. i. 131 et seq.