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NOTE ON nidāna. In Tattvärthadhigamasūtra IX 34 nidāna is the fourth kind of artadhyāna; the Bhasya explains it thus: maitavaltuut पुनर्भवविषयमवानां निदानमानधानं भवति । Palyapada in the sawarthasiddhi : Water Terraferifi sfa wigfarroll aufmgang data forcufari Siddhasena commenting on VII 13 mentions nidāna as one of the three salyas, and explains it as an arreftria; when somebody does penance in order to get, in another life, what had caused his envy in this. And alt. VII 32 he says: furchT e refore TI RENT HIf ततो जनाबारे चक्रावर्ती स्वामर्षभरताधिपतिर्महामलिक नुभगो रुपवामित्यादि।
TV H oetery afarar oftari i Pūjyapāda in commenting on the same sūtra explains nidānam (etymologically भोगावामन्या नियतं दीयते चि तसिंखेनेलिया।
The dogmatical meaning of nidāna illustrated in the above extraots is the idea underlying the Samaržicca Kahā.
NOTE ON SUVARŅADVIPA AND KAȚĀHA.. Suvarnaslvipa is Sumatra. It is mentioned in an inscription of the Saka year 700, see Epigraphia Indica XVII p. 311. The editor of this inscription mentions an, other inscription preserved in the Leyden Museum which belongs to the Chola King Rajaraja Raja Kesarivarman (985–1013 A.D.). In this grant is stated that Māravijayatungavarman was the overlord (adhipati) of Srivijaya (Palembang in Sundatra) who while extending the kingdom of Kalaha caused some monastery to be built.-Kataha a
y is either Sumatra: or a kingdom in that island.
