flowers, it becomes immediately full, while some very
rich people, wishing to make offering of many flowers, might not stop
till they had thrown in hundreds, thousands, and myriads of bushels,
and yet would not be able to fill it.(11)

Pao-yun and Sang-king here merely made their offerings to the
alms-bowl, and (then resolved to) go back. Hwuy-king, Hwuy-tah, and
Tao-ching had gone on before the rest to Negara,(12) to make their
offerings at (the places of) Buddha's shadow, tooth, and the flat-bone
of his skull. (There) Hwuy-king fell ill, and Tao-ching remained to
look after him, while Hwuy-tah came alone to Purushapura, and saw the
others, and (then) he with Pao-yun and Sang-king took their way
back to the land of Ts'in. Hwuy-king(13) came to his end(14) in the
monastery of Buddha's alms-bowl, and on this Fa-Hsien went forward
alone towards the place of the flat-bone of Buddha's skull.

NOTES

(1) The modern Peshawur, lat. 34d 8s N., lon. 71d 30s E.

(2) A first cousin of Sakyamuni, and born at the moment when he
attained to Buddhaship. Under Buddha's teaching, Ananda became an
Arhat, and is famous for his strong and accurate memory; and he
played an important part at the first council for the formation of the
Buddhist canon. The friendship between Sakyamuni and Ananda was very
close and tender; and it is impossible to read much of what the dying
Buddha said to him and of him, as related in the Maha-pari-nirvana
Sutra, without being moved almost to tears. Ananda is to reappear
on earth as Buddha in another Kalpa. See E. H., p. 9, and the Sacred
Books of the East, vol. xi.

(3) On his attaining to nirvana, Sakyamuni became the Buddha, and had
no longer to mourn his being within the circle of transmigration,
and could rejoice in an absolute freedom from passion, and a perfect
purity. Still he continued to live on for forty-five years, till he
attained to pari-nirvana, and had done with all the life of sense and
society, and had no more exercise of thought. He died; but whether
he absolutely and entirely _ceased_ to be, in any sense of the word
_being_, it would be difficult to say. Probably he himself would not
and could not have spoken definitely on the point. So far as our use
of language is concerned, apart from any assured faith in and hope of
immortality, his pari-nirvana was his death.

(4) Kanishka appeared, and began to reign, early in