________________ Notes ( St. 117-120 of lives (7 to 12), avoidance of impermissible things (13), of householder's pot (14), of couch and other seats (15), of residence in a place entered for begging purposes (16), of bath (17), and lastly avoidance of decoration (18). The stanza affet occurs next (FT. VI,8). The word fargurt qualifying STREET implies the thoroughness of non-injury by avoiding unclean pots and the like. St. 118 दिक्खिओ (Sk. दीक्षितः). One who has taken the aim or initiation to the life of a monk. The root be like ys is entirely a Prakrit root used in the sense of falling (Sk. भ्रंश.). The reading गिहिंदाणधम्माओ (Sk. गृहेन्द्राणां ETAF) goes a little bit against metre and has the word se redundant. There might have been the reading fireui fT ETFHteit in the original. St. 119 The idea of peacocks being greatly delighted at the rumbling of clouds is not only conventional with poets, but it is actually testified to by experience. St. 120 ECOi (Sk. JHTA) un is a period of two hours taken by each of the twelve thats or Zodiacal signs to rise above the horizon. Some signs especially those in which inauspicious planets (Orques) for the time being are seen, are said to be inauspicious, as contrasted with others which are occupied