^108:2 This is one of the ten kinds of Kasina, or ways in which the devotee may fall into the mystic trance. See Childers, s.v.

^108:3 "Beginning with the second, those which explain the misery of desire are eight," quoth the Scholiast. The first stanza, it will be remembered, is a quotation from Sutta-Nipata, and possibly may have been added later.

^108:4 The number nahutam is 1 followed by 28 ciphers.