[Footnote 288:  I have this information from the Jain Guru at Sravana Belgola.  He said that Gomatesvara (who seems unknown to the Svetambaras) waa a Kevalin but not a Tirthankara.]

[Footnote 289:  Two others, rather smaller, are known, one at Karkal (dated 1431) and one at Yannur.  These images are honoured at occasional festivals (one was held at Sravana Belgola in 1910) attended by a considerable concourse of Jains.  The type of the statues is not Buddhist.  They are nude and represent sages meditating in a standing position whereas Buddhists prescribe a sitting posture for meditation.]

[Footnote 290:  The mountain of Satrunjaya rises above Palitana, the capital of a native state in Gujarat.  Other collections of temples are found on the hill of Parasnath in Bengal, at Sonagir near Datia, and Muktagiri near Gawilgarh.  There are also a good many on the hills above Rajgir.]

[Footnote 291:  The strength of Buddhism in Burma and Siam is no doubt largely due to the fact that custom obliges every one to spend part of his life—­if only a few days—­as a member of the order.]

[Footnote 292:  One might perhaps add to this list the Skoptsy of Russia and the Armenian colonies in many European and Asiatic towns.]

[Footnote 293:  Throughout this book I have not hesitated to make use of the many excellent translations of Pali works which have been published.  Students of Indian religion need hardly be reminded how much our knowledge of Pali writings and of early Buddhism owes to the labours of Professor and Mrs Rhys Davids.]

[Footnote 294:  Sanskrit Sutra, Pali Sutta.  But the use of the words is not quite the same in Buddhist and Brahmanic literature.  A Buddhist sutta or sutra is a discourse, whether in Pali or in Sanskrit; a Brahmanic sutra is an aphorism.  But the 227 divisions of the Patimokkha are called Suttas, so that the word may have been originally used in Pali to denote short statements of a single point.  The longer Suttas are often called Suttanta.]

[Footnote 295:  E.g. Maj.  Nik. 123 about the marvels attending the birth of a Buddha.]

[Footnote 296:  See some further remarks on this subject at the end of chap.  XIII. (on the Canon).]

[Footnote 297:  Also Sakya or Sakka.  The Sanskrit form is Sakya.]

[Footnote 298:  See among other passages the Ambattha Sutta of the Digha Nikaya in which Ambattha relates how he saw the Sakyas, old and young, sitting on grand seats in this hall.]

[Footnote 299:  But in Cullavagga VII. 1 Bhaddiya, a cousin of the Buddha who is described as being the Raja at that time, says when thinking of renouncing the world “Wait whilst I hand over the kingdom to my sons and my brothers,” which seems to imply that the kingdom was a family possession.  Rajja perhaps means Consulship in the Roman sense rather than kingdom.]

[Footnote 300:  E.g. the Sonadanda and Kutadanta Suttas of the Digha Nikaya.]