ikaya Sang, he burnt their Pitaka.]

[Footnote 46: On Katha-vat. XVIII. 1 and 2. Printed in the _Journal of
the Pali Text Soc._ for 1889.]

[Footnote 47: Watters, II. 234. Cf. _Hsuan Chuang's life_, chap. IV.]

[Footnote 48: Mahavam. XXXVI. iii. ff. Gothabhaya's date was
probably 302-315 and Mahasena's 325-352. The common chronology makes
Gothabhaya reign from 244 to 257 and Mahasena from 269 to 296 A.D.]

[Footnote 49: Quoted by Turnour, Introd. p. liii. The Mahavam. V.
13, expressly states that the Dhammaruci and Sagaliya sects originated
in Ceylon.]

[Footnote 50: _I.e._ as I understand, the two divisions of the Sutta
Vibhanga.]

[Footnote 51: It was written up to date at various periods. The
chapters which take up the history after the death of Mahasena are
said to be the work of Dhammakitti, who lived about 1250.]

[Footnote 52: He was a contemporary of the Gupta King Samudragupta who
reigned approximately 330-375 A.D. See S. Levi in _J.A._ 1900, pp. 316
ff, 401 ff. This synchronism is a striking confirmation of Fleet and
Geiger's chronology.]

[Footnote 53: _E.g._ the tomb of Ramanuja at Srirangam.]

[Footnote 54: For a somewhat similar reason the veneration of relics
is prevalent among Moslims. Islam indeed provides an object of worship
but its ceremonies are so austere and monotonous that any devotional
practices which are not forbidden as idolatrous are welcome to the
devout.]

[Footnote 55: Dig. Nik. XVI. v. 27.]

[Footnote 56: Plutarch mentions a story that the relics of King
Menander were similarly divided into eight portions but the story may
be merely a replica of the obsequies of the Buddha.]

[Footnote 57: IV. 3, 24. The first text is from Mahaparinibbana Sutta,
V. 24. The second has not been identified.]

[Footnote 58: _Journal des Savants_, Oct. 1906.]

[Footnote 59: See Norman, "Buddhist legends of Asoka and his times,"
in _J.A.S._ Beng. 1910.]

[Footnote 60: Just as the Tooth was considered to be the palladium of
Sinhalese kings.]

[Footnote 61: Record of Buddhist kingdoms. Legge, pp. 34, 35. Fa-Hsien
speaks of the country not the town of Peshawar (Purushapura).]

[Footnote 62: _Ibid._ p. 109. Fa-Hsien does not indicate that at this
time there was a rival bowl in Ceylon but represents the preacher as
saying it was then in Gandhara.]

[Footnote 63: Watters, I. pp. 202, 203. But the life of Hsuan Chuang
says Benares not Persia.]

[Footnote 64: Marco Polo trans. Yule, II. pp. 32