Note 3 — Chapter XIX · SHA-CHE. LEGEND OF BUDDHA’S DANTA-KASHTHA.

(3) Are two classes of opponents, or only one, intended here, so that we should read “all the unbelievers and Brahmans,” or “heretics and Brahmans?” I think the Brahmans were also “the unbelievers” and “heretics,” having {.} {.}, views and ways outside of, and opposed to, Buddha’s.