d a discourse on spiritual progress) put together with a little
connecting matter, and provided with a prologue and epilogue.]
[Footnote 647: But in Ceylon there was a decided tendency to rewrite
Sinhalese treatises in Pali.]
[Footnote 648: Cf. Divyav. ed. Cowell, p. 37 and Sam. Nik. _P.T.S._
edition, vol. IV. p. 60.]
[Footnote 649: See Takakusu on the Abhidharma literature of the
Sarvastivadins in the _Journ. of the Pali Text Society_, 1905, pp.
67-147.]
[Footnote 650: But not always. See S. Levi, _J.A._ 1910, p. 436.]
[Footnote 651: See Lueders, _Bruchstuecke Buddhistischer Dramen_, 1911 and
ib. _Das Sari putra-prakarana_, 1911.]
[Footnote 652: Inscriptions from Swat written in an alphabet supposed to
date from 50 B.C. to 50 A.D. contain Sanskrit verses from the Dharmapada
and Mahaparinirvanasutra. See _Epig. Indica_, vol. IV. p. 133.]
[Footnote 653: E.g. The Sanskrit version of the Sutta-Nipata. See
_J.R.A.S._ 1916, pp. 719-732.]
[Footnote 654: See the remarks on the Samyuktagama in _J.A._ 1916, II.
p. 272.]
[Footnote 655: In the same spirit, the Chinese version of the Ekottara
(sec. 42) makes the dying Buddha order his bed to be made with the head
to the north, because northern India will be the home of the Law. See
_J.A._ Nov., Dec. 1918, p. 435.]
[Footnote 656: See for the whole question, Peri, Les Femmes de Cakya
Muni, _B.E.F.E.O._ 1918, No. 2.]
[Footnote 657: Those of the Dharmaguptas, Mahasanghikas and
Mahisasakas.]
[Footnote 658: See _J.A.O.S._ Dec. 1910, p. 24.]
[Footnote 659: Jacobi considers the Yoga Sutras later than 450 A.D. but
if we adopt Peri's view that Vasubandhu, Asanga's brother, lived from
about 280-360, the fact that they imply a knowledge of the Vijnanavada
need not make them much later than 300 A.D. It is noticeable that both
Asanga and the Yoga Sutras employ the word _dharma-megha_.]
[Footnote 660: Called Citta in the Yoga philosophy.]
[Footnote 661: See Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, vol. II. pp. 410 ff.
Savages often supplement fasting by the use of drugs and the Yoga Sutras
(IV. 1) mention that supernatural powers can be obtained by the use of
herbs.]
[Footnote 662: Klesa: Kilesa in Pali.]
[Footnote 663: The practices systematized in the Yoga Sutras are
mentioned even in the older Upanishads such as the Maitrayana,
Svetasvatara and Chandogya.]
[Footnote 664: An extreme development of the idea that physical
processes can produce spiritual results is fou
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