^253:1 The scholiast explains this to mean Hell.

^253:2 The scholiast adds: "The supreme Buddha, while explaining the Cariya-pitaka to Sariputta, Captain of the Faith, to make clear the saying that omniscience was dearer even than both eyes," quoted two lines from the Cariya-pitaka, p. 78, 16-17, beginning na me dessa...

^253:3 Reading laddha tvam as two words.

^254:1 This scene appears to be represented on the Stupa of Bharhut: see Cunningham, Plate XLVIII. 2.

^256:1 This should strictly be -seniyo: perhaps all the officers or soldiers, compare ii. 12. 8, 52. 21.