Footnotes

^137:1 This was one of the four islands, or dipa, of which the earth was supposed to consist; it included India, and represented the inhabited world to the Indian mind.

^139:1 Or, perhaps, "to whom sacrifices should be offered." The translation in the text suggests a popular theory of the evolution of the tax-collector. See also No. 155.

^139:2 See Nos. and 156.

^139:3 Angulimala, a bandit who wore a necklace of his victims' fingers, was converted by the Buddha and became an Arahat. Cf. Majjhima Nikaya No. 86.

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