xxii, note 2.
(7) For another legend about this park, and the identification of "a fine wood" still existing, see note in Beal's first version, p.

135.
(8) A prince of Magadha and a maternal uncle of Sakyamuni, who gave him the name of Ajnata, meaning automat; and hence he often appears as Ajnata Kaundinya.

He and his four friends had followed Sakyamuni into the Uruvilva desert, sympathising with him in the austerities he endured, and hoping that they would issue in his Buddhaship.

They were not aware that that issue had come; which may show us that all the accounts in the thirty-first chapter are merely descriptions, by means of external imagery, of what had taken place internally.

The kingdom of nirvana had come without observation.