Chapter XI · TAKSHAŚILÂ. LEGENDS. THE FOUR GREAT TOPES.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · See Julien’s ‘Méthode pour déchiffrer et transcrire les Nomes Sanscrits,’ p. 206. Eitel says, ‘The Taxila of the Greeks, the region near HooNote 2 · 2 Two Jâtaka stories. See the account of the latter in Spence Hardy’s ‘Manual of Buddhism,’ pp. 91, 92. It took place when Buddha had been bNote 3 · Seven days’ journey from this to the east brought the travellers to the kingdom of Takshaśilâ,1 which means ‘the severed head’ in the languaNote 4 · Going on further for two days to the east, they came to the place where the Bodhisattva threw down his body to feed a starving tigress.2 In