He is often represented with 100 arms, and riding on an elephant." The oldest form of the legend in this paragraph is in "Buddhist Suttas," Sacred Books of the East, vol.
xi, pp.

41-55, where Buddha says that, if Ananda had asked him thrice, he would have postponed his death.
(10) Or the Vinaya-pitaka.

The meeting referred to was an important one, and is generally spoken of as the second Great Council of the Buddhist Church.

See, on the formation of the Buddhist Canon, Hardy's E.M., chap.

xviii, and the last chapter of Davids' Manual, on the History of the Order.