[Footnote 361:  VII. 2 ff.]

[Footnote 362:  The introductions to Jatakas 26 and 150 say that Ajatasattu built a great monastery for him at Gayasisa.]

[Footnote 363:  The Buddha says so himself (Dig.  Nik.  II.) but does not mention the method.]

[Footnote 364:  The Dhamma-sangani defines courtesy as being of two kinds:  hospitality and considerateness in matters of doctrine.]

[Footnote 365:  Maj.  Nik. 75.]

[Footnote 366:  Mahav. vi. 31. 11.]

[Footnote 367:  Cullavag. x. 1. 3.]

[Footnote 368:  Mahaparinib.  V. 23.  Perhaps the Buddha was supposed to be giving Ananda last warnings about his besetting weakness.]

[Footnote 369:  Udana 1. 8.]

[Footnote 370:  Compare too the language of Angela of Foligno (1248-1309) “By God’s will there died my mother who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God:  my husband died likewise and all my children.  And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that he would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, although I did also feel some grief.”  Beatae Angelae de Fulginio Visionum et Instructionum Liber.  Cap. ix.]

[Footnote 371:  No account of this event has yet been found in the earliest texts but it is no doubt historical.  The versions found in the Jataka and Commentaries trace it back to a quarrel about a marriage, but the story is not very clear or consistent and the real motive was probably that indicated above.]

[Footnote 372:  See Rhys Davids, Dialogues, II. p. 70 and Przyluski’s articles (in J.A. 1918 ff.) Le Parinirvana et les funerailles du Bouddha where the Pali texts are compared with the Mulasarvastivadin Vinaya and with other accounts.]

[Footnote 373:  This was probably written after Pataliputra had become a great city but we do not know when its rise commenced.]

[Footnote 374:  She was a noted character in Vesali.  In Mahavag. viii. 1, people are represented as saying that it was through her the place was so flourishing and that it would be a good thing if there were some one like her in Rajagaha.]

[Footnote 375:  The whole passage is interesting as displaying even in the Pali Canon the germs of the idea that the Buddha is an eternal spirit only partially manifested in the limits of human life.  In the Mahaparinib.-sutta Gotama is only voluntarily subject to natural death.]

[Footnote 376:  The phrase occurs again in the Sutta-Nipata.  Its meaning is not clear to me.]

[Footnote 377:  The text seems to represent him as crossing first a streamlet and then the river.]

[Footnote 378:  It is not said how much time elapsed between the meal at Cunda’s and the arrival at Kusinara but since it was his last meal, he probably arrived the same afternoon.]

[Footnote 379:  Cf.  Lyall’s poem, on a Rajput Chief of the Old School, who when nearing his end has to leave his pleasure garden in order that he may die in the ancestral castle.]