END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This colophon occurring at the end of many chapters, shows the intermediate chapters as parts of the lectures of a single day; and by enumeration of which, the whole space of time occupied in the delivery of these lectures may be fairly ascertained. This will serve to show that the delivery of the lectures occupied but a few months; and Válmíki’s writing of them, if he was a shorthand writer, embraced also the same length of time, contrary to the common belief of this composition’s being a work of many years.
[2] (It was Plato’s doctrine of the souls’ reminiscence of a former apprehension of truth awakened by the traces of ideas which sensation discovered in things).
[3] The Arhatas have seven categories:
- 1. The animated and intelligent body.
- 2. The inanimate and insensible body as rocks &c.
- 3. The organs of sense.
- 4. Ignorance or austerities, called Ávarana.
- 5. Tonsure of the head called nirávarana.
- 6. Bondage to repeated births and deaths.
- 7. Liberation or final emancipation.
- 1. Sadvádis or believers in liberation.
- 2. Asadvádis—unbelievers.
- 3. Syadvádis—Sceptics.
- 4. Sada—Sadavádis—misbelievers.
- 5. Anirvachaneyavádis—Infidels. 6. Nástikas—Atheists.
- 7. Súnyavádís—Vacuists.
[4] Hari in the form of Krishna, destroyed the demons chief Sambara or Káliya under his feet; as the son of God in the form of Christ, defeated Satan and bruised his head under his feet.
[5] Ceylon is said to be first peopled by the Yakkas (yakshas) who followed the train of the Rákshasa Rávana to that island.
[6] But these formal changes are phenomenal and not real. They are mere appearances. Gloss.