He was one of the three leaders of the first synod, and the principal compiler of the original Vinaya books.
(12) I have not met with the particulars of this preaching.
(13) Meaning, as explained in Chinese, "a tree without knots;" the _ficus Indica_.

See Rhys Davids' note, Manual, p.

39, where he says that a branch of one of these trees was taken from Buddha Gaya to Anuradhapura in Ceylon in the middle of the third century B.C, and is still growing there, the oldest historical tree in the world.
(14) See chap.

xiii, note 11.

I have not met with the account of this presentation.