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squam bani, ani having it topi covered with what the Burmose call an umbrella, l'esembling in it- shape the musical instrument vulgarly called charoun chinois by the French. On each side of the quadrangether basis are opened four niclios (one on each side) in the direction of the four carlinal points, destined to receive stutres of Bildha" This scription shown clearly that the Dzedi in no other than the well-known chaibyt, which, though latterly used to indicate t'uneral or mevaerial tinulus, originally meant a tuniple or sacs place. The scorci presou zo being in it, the womb is very aptly coinperto a tomple. Our text, ot xatistind with this simple compar:rcu. Inakus a Ratnaw uha of it, tistinct from the womb, and tben folyes it in the region of Braban as a sacred monument to be put intequritill whenever losired. The whole of the description of this listuarul isi fanciful prutraiture of the worab as a assur!.
S. l'ha yenille! 118in of Boilhisa/tru enjoyment, p. !99 For Loncurcot trument the original Sanskrit has been rendered Bache witcher in slightly varying forms.
9. The occrn u hisumers, p. 100. Meru or Super.l, means the great muuntain wlich is filled to stand on the centro of the earth, and round with the seven Oceans and coutinents are located, The cpithet maké ached to it would imply its great Sumeru mountain. Datort the word Mathásteru in yoalitiod by the epithet sumu. dr, "aan. I have nowhere noticed any mention made of an ocean m ed Mahásmera. Du composition samudre is sometimes used to jeply 11: bryn open, t.bu ocean being the verge or luit of land, and ther we worls corofor may, in the test. Jnean the outorinust limit of the great suoru moun lain. It may also be made to mean the oces which arsunds the great Sumera. In the Cronch version of the Tibetan lost word Sumeru is omitted.
10. after hooght portion of an infant six months old, p. 101. Thong! thiet..r is brought a car 60 yojanas in expanso, its pavi. 110.1 is b id to unly the size of an infant six months old. Con sistency in liguos und measurements is an obligation to which thu antin of the Malásána sutras are nowhere amenablo.
11 .1 beilstrad for an infant six months old, p. 101. The Sangkmt wordinaro Sunmisajutusya dirakarya bhitti-phalakah. The
