^17:1 See Grimblot's Sept Suttas Palies. This story, with the first stanza, is briefly given in the Cariya-Pitaka, p 99f.

^17:2 No. 531.

^17:3 On the Ganges.

^17:4 In this confusing tale, Mandavya is the name of one of the ascetics and also of the householder, Dipayana is the name of the other ascetic.

^19:1 See vol. iii., p. 70.

^21:1 Or, Praised of the wise and good religion is.

^21:2 The word may possibly mean public-house: either is a "drinking place" (avapana).