^117:1 That this is the meaning is clear from the passive in the Dhammapada version, chijjimsu, p. 340.

^117:2 The meaning of this phrase is doubtful: in vol. ii. pp. 28 and 120, it is rendered "royal woollen garment": it may mean "wedding-garment" given to the bride by the bridegroom's friends (Grierson's Bihar Peasant Life, section 1322).

^117:3 This theme, which resembles the story of Joseph and the wife of Potiphar, or Phaedra and Hippolytus, is common in various forms in India. One example is the Legend of Puran Mal (MS. written by Ram Gharib Sharma, Chaturvaidya, and collected by Mr. W. Crooke). Another is the Legend of Rup and Basant, or Sit and Basant (MS.). In both of these the Queen falls in love with her step-son.

^118:1 Reading, lamakavattham.

^119:1 This was the vajjhamala, put on the head or neck of a criminal condemned to death. In the Toy Cart, Act x, one being led forth to execution wears a wreath of Karavira flowers. The Pali has Kanavera, which is not known as a flower: this may be a corrupt form of the Sanskrit word.

^119:2 These lines occur in Dhammapada, p. 341.

^120:1 See Wilson's Vishnu Purana, ii. p. 123.