Mahisasakah means "the school of the transformed earth," or "the sphere within which the Law of Buddha is influential." The school is one of the subdivisions of the Sarvastivadah.
(2) Nanjio's 545 and 504.

The Agamas are Sutras of the hinayana, divided, according to Eitel, pp.

4, 5, into four classes, the first or Dirghagamas (long Agamas) being treatises on right conduct, while the third class contains the Samyuktagamas (mixed Agamas).
(3) Meaning "Miscellaneous Collections;" a sort of fourth Pitaka.

See Nanjio's fourth division of the Canon, containing Indian and Chinese miscellaneous works.

But Dr.Davids says that no work of this name is known either in Sanskrit or Pali literature.
(4) We have in the text a phonetisation of the Sanskrit Kundika, which is explained in Eitel by the two characters that follow, as="washing basin," but two things evidently are intended.
(5) See chap.