^75:1 Buddha's retirement from the world: Hardy, Manual, pp. 158 ff.; Warren, Buddhism in Translations, section 6.

^75:2 Buddha: one who possesses the Ten Powers or Ten Kinds of Knowledge.

^75:3 See iii. 454 (p. 272 of this translation).

^75:4 No. 458.

^75:5 No. 525.

^76:1 No. 532.

^76:2 No. 542.

^76:3 Kamabhavo, rupabhavo, arupabhavo: sense-existence, body-existence (where there is form, but no sensual enjoyment), formless-existence. See Hardy, Manual of Budhism, p. 3, for a fuller account.

^77:1 Tarati means technically to "flee from the City of Destruction."