1: No monk can eat solid food except between sunrise and noon,
and total abstinence from intoxicating drinks is obligatory. Food eaten
at any other part of the day is called vikala, and forbidden; but a
weary traveller might receive unseasonable refreshment, consisting of
honey, butter, treacle, and sesamum oil.]

[Footnote 2: Sariputtra was one of the principal disciples of Buddha,
and indeed the most learned and ingenious of them all.]

[Footnote 3: Mugalan, the Singhalese name of this disciple, is more
pronounceable. He also was one of the principal disciples, called
Buddha's "left-hand attendant." He was distinguished for his power of
vision, and his magic powers.]

[Footnote 4: The different parts of the tripitaka.]

[Footnote 5: The bhikshunis are the female monks or nuns, subject to the
same rules as the bhikshus, and also to special ordinances of
restraint.]

[Footnote 6: The Sramaneras are the novices, male or female, who have
vowed to observe the Shikshapada, or ten commandments.]

[Footnote 7: The eldest son of Sakyamuni by Yasodhara. Converted to
Buddhism, he followed his father as an attendant; and after Buddha's
death became the founder of a philosophical realistic school
(vaibhashika). He is now revered as the patron saint of all novices, and
is to be reborn as the eldest son of every future Buddha.]

CHAPTER XVII

~Legend of the Trayastrimsas Heaven~

From this they proceeded southeast for eighteen yojanas, and found
themselves in a kingdom called Sankas'ya, at the place where Buddha
came down, after ascending to the Trayastrims'as heaven [1], and there
preaching for three months his Law for the benefit of his mother [2].
Buddha had gone up to this heaven by his supernatural power, without
letting his disciples know; but seven days before the completion of the
three months he laid aside his invisibility, and Anuruddha [3], with his
heavenly eyes, saw the World-honored one, and immediately said to the
honored one, the great Mugalan, "Do you go and salute the World-honored
one," Mugalan forthwith went, and with head and face did homage at
Buddha's feet. They then saluted and questioned each other, and when
this was over, Buddha said to Mugalan, "Seven days after this I will go
down to Jambudvipa"; and thereupon Mugalan returned. At this time the
great kings of eight countries with their ministers and people, not
having seen Buddha for a long time, were all thirstily looking up for
him, an