Chapter XXIII · RÂMA, AND ITS TOPE.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Râma or Râmagrâma, between Kapilavastu and Kuśanagara.Note 2 · See the account of the eightfold division of the relics of Buddha’s body in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi, Buddhist Suttas, pp. 133–Note 3 · The bones of the human body are supposed to consist of 84,000 atoms, and hence the legend of Aśoka’s wish to build 84,000 topes, one over eaNote 4 · Fâ-hien, it appears to me, intended his readers to understand that the nâga-guardian had a palace of his own, inside or underneath the pool Note 5 · It stands out on the narrative as a whole that we have not here ‘some pilgrims,’ but one devotee.Note 6 · What the ‘great prohibitions’ which the devotee now gave up were we cannot tell. Being what he was, a monk of more than ordinary ascetical hNote 7 · The Śrâmaṇera, or in Chinese Shâmei. See chap. xvi, note 20.Note 8 · East from Buddha’s birthplace, and at a distance of five yojanas, there is a kingdom called Râma.1 The king of this country, having obtained