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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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