The first part of Fa-Hsien's narrative will have sent the thoughts of some of my readers to the exposure of the infant Moses, as related in Exodus.

(Certainly did .-- JB.) (6) See chap.

xiii, note 14.
(7) Thus Sakyamuni had been one of the thousand little boys who floated in the box in the Ganges.

How long back the former age was we cannot tell.

I suppose the tope of the two fathers who became Pratyeka Buddhas had been built like the one commemorating the laying down of weapons after Buddha had told his disciples of the strange events in the past.
(8) Bhadra-kalpa, "the Kalpa of worthies or sages." "This," says Eitel, p.