Note 289 — APPENDIX.
Reading edition
The Light of Asia: or, The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold. London: Trübner.—In the Hindu Epic, the Mahâbhârata, the same great principle is apparent, though less conspicuously:—
“The constant virtue of the Good is tenderness and love To all that live in earth, air, sea—great, small—below, above: Compassionate of heart, they keep a gentle will to each: Who pities not, hath not the Faith. Full many a one so lives.” III.—Story of Savîtri