When Maitreya appears in the world, and begins to turn the wheel of his Law, he will in the first place save those among the disciples of the Law left by the Sakya who have quitted their families, and those who have accepted the three Refuges, undertaken the five Prohibitions and the eight Abstinences, and given offerings to the three Precious Ones; secondly and thirdly, he will save those between whom and conversion there is a connexion transmitted from the past.'"(10) (Such was the discourse), and Fa-Hsien wished to write it down as a portion of doctrine; but the man said, "This is taken from no Sutra, it is only the utterance of my own mind." NOTES (1) Possibly, "and asked the bhikshu," &c.

I prefer the other way of construing, however.
(2) It seems strange that this should have been understood as a wrapping of the immense pyre with the cloth.

There is nothing in the text to necessitate such a version, but the contrary.

Compare "Buddhist Suttas," pp.

92, 93.
(3) See the description of a funeral car and its decorations in the Sacred Books of the East, vol.xxviii, the Li Ki, Book XIX.