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xxviii, note 1.
(2) See chap.

xxv, note 9.

Pisuna is a name given to Mara, and signifies "sinful lust." (3) See M.B., p.320.Hardy says that Devadatta's attempt was "by the help of a machine;" but the oldest account in the Sacred Books of the East, vol.xx, Vinaya Texts, p.

245, agrees with what Fa-Hsien implies that he threw the rock with his own arm.
(4) And, as described by Hsuan-chwang, fourteen or fifteen cubits high, and thirty paces round.
(5) See Mr.Bunyiu Nanjio's "Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka," Sutra Pitaka, Nos.

399, 446.


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