r own. We shall be
like bright gods, feeding on happiness.

From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he that is free
from lust knows neither grief nor fear.

The best of ways is the eightfold (path); this is the way,
there is no other that leads to the purifying of
intelligence. Go on this way! Everything else is the deceit
of Death. You yourself must make the effort. Buddhas are
only preachers. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed
from the bondage of Death.[73]

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Compare Colebrooke's _Essays_, vol. ii. 460;
and Muir, OST. iv. 296]

[Footnote 2: Compare Oldenberg. _Buddha_, p. 155.]

[Footnote 3: Especially Koeppen views Buddha as a democratic
reformer and liberator.]

[Footnote 4: Emile Senart, _Essai sur la legende du Buddha_.
1875.]

[Footnote 5: _Buddha_ (1881), p.73 ff.]

[Footnote 6: The exact position of Kapilavastu, the capital
of the C[=a]kyas, is not known, although it must have been
near to the position assigned to it on Kiepert's map of
India (just north of Gorakhpur). The town is unknown in
Brahmanic literature.]

[Footnote 7: This is Oldenberg's opinion, for the reason
here stated. On the other hand it may be questioned whether
this negative evidence be conclusive, and whether it be not
more probable that a young nobleman would have been well
educated.]

[Footnote 8: Siddhartha, the boy, Gautama by his family
cognomen, the C[=a]kya-son by his clan-name, was known also
as the C[=a]kya-sage, the hermit, Samana (Crama[n.]a); the
venerable, Arhat (a general title of perfected saints);
Tath[=a]gata 'who is arrived like' (the preceding Buddhas,
at perfection); and also by many other names common to other
sects, Buddha, Jina, The Blessed One (Bhagavat), The Great
Hero, etc. The Buddhist disciple may be a layman, _cravaka_;
a monk, _bhikshu_; a perfected saint, _arhat_; a saintly
doctor of the law, _bodhisattva_; etc.]

[Footnote 9: South of the present Patna. Less correct is the
_Buddha_ Gay[=a] form.]

[Footnote 10: The famous _bo_ or Bodhi-tree, ficus
religiosa, _pippala_, at Bodhi Gay[=a], said to be the most
venerable and certainly the most venerated tree in the
world.]

[Footnote 11: A _