Thus has spoken the Arhat Gnatriputra, the venerable native of Vaisali , who possesses the highest knowledge and who possesses the highest faith, who possesses (at the same time) the highest knowledge and the highest faith. (17)

Thus I say.

Footnotes

^24:2 Khuddaganiyanthiggam = Kshullakanirgranthiyam. Kshullaka originally means 'small, young,' but I do not see that the contents of this lecture support this translation, though the commentators would seem to favour it.

^24:3 Devendra here quotes the following Sanskrit verse: Kalatranigadam dattva na samtushtah pragapatih | bhuyo'py apatyarupena dadati galasrinkhalam. The creator was not satisfied when he had given (to man) the wife as a fetter, he added a chain round his neck in the form of children.

^25:1 This verse recurs in Sutrakritanga I, 9, 5.

^25:2 Sapehae pase = svaprekshaya pasyet, he should look at it with his mind or reflectively. However sapehae is usually the absolute participle samprekshya. The meaning is the same in both cases.

^25:3 Some MSS. insert here the following verse: 'Movables and immovables, corn, and furniture can not deliver a man from pain, who is suffering for his deeds.'

^25:4 This is according to the commentators the meaning of the word dogunkhi = gugupsin.

^25:5 Ayariyam vidittanam. The commentator makes this out to mean: by learning only what right conduct (akarikam) is, without living up to it. But it is obvious that the author intends a censure upon the Gnanamarga.

^26:1 As usual this phrase means: one should conduct one's self so as to commit no sin.

^26:2 There is a pun in the original on the word patta, which means plumes (patra) and alms-bowl (patra).

^27:1 This is the eshanasamiti. On the samitis see below, Twelfth Lecture, 2.

^27:2 Vesalie = Vaisalika. See my remarks on this statement in part i, introduction, p. xi, and Hoernle's notes in his translation of the Uvasaga Dasao, p. 3 ff.