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[Footnote 42: Sakyaputtiya Samanas, i.e., Buddhists.]
[Footnote 43: In the case of a monk having carnal connection with a nun the penalty was instant expulsion(ib. 60). The nuns were subject to the monks and kept strictly in hand, obliged always to greet the monks first, to go to lessons once a fortnight, and so forth.]
[Footnote 44: Mah[=a]sudassana, the great King of Glory whose city is described with its four gates, one of gold, one of silver, one of Jade and one of crystal, etc. The earlier Buddha had as 'king of glory' 84,000 wives and other comforts quite as remarkable.
[Footnote 45: Translated by Davids, Buddhist Suttas and Hibbert Lectures.)
[Footnote 46: What we have several times had to call attention to is shown again by the side light of Buddhism to be the case in Brahmanic circles, namely, that even in Buddha's day while Brahms=a) is the god of the thinkers Indra is the god of the people (together with Vishnu and Civa, if the texts are as old as they pretend to be).]
[Footnote 47: Mahf=a]parinibb[=a]na iii, to which Rhys Davids refers, is scarcely a fair parallel.]
[Footnote 48: The imitation of the original play on words is Rhys Davids', who has translated these Suttas in SBE. vol. XI. For the following see Fausböll, ib. vol. X.]
[Footnote 49: After one enters on the stream of holiness there are only seven more possible births on earth, with one in heaven; then he becomes arhat, venerable, perfected, and enters Nirv[=a]na.]
