Note 3 — Chapter XIX · SHÂ-CHE. LEGEND OF BUDDHA’S DANTA-KÂSHṬHA.

Are two classes of opponents, or only one, intended here, so that we should read ‘all the unbelievers and Brahmâns,’ or ‘heretics and Brahmâns?’ I think the Brahmâns were also ‘the unbelievers’ and ‘heretics,’ having 外道, views and ways outside of, and opposed to, Buddha’s.