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I am surprised it does not end with the statement that she is to become a Buddha.
(14) See E.H., p.136.

Hsuan-chwang does not give the name of this murderer; see in Julien's "Vie et Voyages de Hiouen-thsang," p.
125,--"a heretical Brahman killed a woman and calumniated Buddha." See also the fuller account in Beal's "Records of Western Countries," pp.
7, 8, where the murder is committed by several Brahmacharins.

In this passage Beal makes Sundari to be the name of the murdered person (a harlot).

But the text cannot be so construed.
(15) Eitel (p.

144) calls her Chancha; in Singhalese, Chinchi.


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