^261:1 Each of these birds has one body, two necks, and three legs.

^261:2 The last three similes cannot be translated accurately, as they contain puns which must be lost in the translation. The moon is somalese, of soft light, but Mahavira has pure thoughts (lesya, manaso bahirvikara); the sun is dittateo of splendent light, Mahavira of splendent vigour; gold is gayaruva, a synonym of kanaga gold, Mahavira always retains his own nature. It is worthy of remark that only two regular puns (for the second is but a common metaphor) occur in a passage in which a later writer would have strained his genius to the utmost to turn every simile into a pun. The difference of style is best seen on comparing this passage with e. g. the description of the nun Sarasvati and of autumn in the Kalakakarya Kathanaka; see my edition, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XXXIV, pp. 260, 263.

^262:1 Ghare va, omitted in my edition.

^262:2 Different names of divisions of time; a Stoka contains seven respirations, a Kshana many (bahutara) respirations (according to another commentary a Kshana contains six Nadikas, it is the sixth part of a Ghati), a Lava contains seven Stokas, and a Muhurta seventy Lavas. This system of dividing time differs from all other known; compare Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II2, pp. 540, 542. Wilson, Vishnu Purana, I2, p. 47, note 2.--Expunge pakkheva in my edition.

^262:3 The same passage occurs in the Aupapatika Sutra (ed. Leumann, section 87), but without an indication that it is not complete.

^263:1 Or Samaka.

^263:2 Cf. Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 25.

^264:1 Cf. Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 26.

^264:2 According to the commentary it was formerly called Vardhamana, but it has since been called Asthikagrama, because a Yaksha Sulapani had there collected an enormous heap of bones of the people whom he had killed. On that heap of bones the inhabitants had built a temple.

^264:3 Bahirika?

^264:4 A place in Vagrabhumi according to the commentaries.

^264:5 Magghima Papa, the middle town Papa.

^265:1 The yuga or lustrum contains five years; the third and fifth years are leap years, called abhivardhita, the rest are common years of 354 days and are called kandra. The day has 1262 bhagas.

^265:2 Some MSS. and the commentary have aggivesa.

^265:3 Or Supta.

^265:4 Indrabhuti was on a mission to convert somebody when Mahavira died. Being aware that love had no place in one who is free from passion, he suppressed his friendship for his teacher and became a Kevalin; he died twelve years after, having lived fifty years as a monk, and altogether ninety-two years.

^266:1 They were tributary to Ketaka, king of Vaisali and maternal uncle of Mahavira. Instead of Likkhavi, which form is used by the Buddhists, the Gainas have Lekkhaki as the Sanskrit form of the Prakrit Lekkhai, which may be either.