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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XX
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See the story about her, M.B., pp.

275-277.
(16) "Earth's prison," or "one of Earth's prisons." It was the Avichi naraka to which she went, the last of the eight hot prisons, where the culprits die, and are born again in uninterrupted succession (such being the meaning of Avichi), though not without hope of final redemption.

E.H.p.

21.
(17) Devadatta was brother of Ananda, and a near relative therefore of Sakyamuni.

He was the deadly enemy, however, of the latter.


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