[62] Consult C. F. Köppen, Die Lamaische Hierarchie.
[63] According to Huc’s version of his history he was not born in a Lamasery, but in the hut of a herdsman of Eastern Tibet, in the county of Amdo, south of the Kouku-Noor.
[64] This elaborate derivation, however, has been disputed, and it is more probable the name is derived from two words, signifying “the Indian ox.” In Tibet it has no name but “great ox.”
[65] Virgil, Georg. ii. 121, “Velleraque ut foliis depectant tenuia Seres;” and Pliny, H. N. vi. 20, 2, “Seres, lanicio silvarum nobiles, perfusam aqua depectentes frondium canitiem.” Also 24, 8; and xi. 26, 1.
[66] See infra, note 2 to “Vikramâditja’s Birth.”
[67] Burnouf, i. 265.
[68] See supra, p. 351 and p. 385.
[69] See Max Müller’s “Chips from a German Workshop.”
