Note 3 — Glory to Him, the Blessed Saint, the All-Enlightened one.

Hamsā adicca-pathe yanti. In Hinduism the paramahamsa, "the swan," is the mystic name for the liberated being (Cf. Bhagavad Gītā) who goes to the sun (āditya Skt.), and is reborn no more; also in Chāndogya Upanishad, VIII, 7-5, we read: "When mind ceases to act, he attains the sun. That is the way to the region above. It is open to the learned, but closed to the ignorant." Those who are reborn are said to go on the path of the moon. In Buddhism, the Arahants, Saints, have the power (iddhi) of flying through the air even physically, by self-levitation. Cf. V. 91.