The blessed Buddha rebuked Pindola Bhâradvâga (for having won a bowl of sandalwood by performing a miracle), saying, “This is improper, not according to rule, unsuitable, unworthy of a Samana, unbecoming, and ought not to be done. How can you for the sake of a miserable wooden pot display before the laity the superhuman quality of your miraculous power of Iddhi?... This will not conduce either to the conversion of the unconverted or to the increase of the converted” (Kullavagga, v. 8. 2). The danger of performing a miracle by power of Iddhi, for self-glorification, is exemplified in the story of Devadatta in Kullavagga, vii. 1. 2, 3. In the Mahavagga, Kullavagga, Sutta Nipâta, and similar books, however, miracles are ascribed to Buddha, and conversions attributed to their performance. Footnote 162: Luke i. 1. Footnote 163: T. W. Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures, p. 128. Footnote 164: Oldenberg, _Buddha, etc._, p. 190. Footnote 165: Matthew xi. 27; xxviii. 16-20. Footnote 166: Mark i. 7-11; ii. 10-28; viii. 38; xii. 35-37. Footnote 167: Pressensé, _Vie de Jésus_, p. 373. Footnote 168: Cox, _Commentary on Job_, p. 19. Footnote 169: See Mahavagga, i. pp. 15-20, for specimens of the “three thousand five hundred” wonders of Buddha. “The marvellous in the Gospels is but sober good sense compared with what we find in ... the Hindu European mythologies” (Renan, _Études d’histoire Relig._ pp. 177, 203). Footnote 170: Godet, _Lectures in Defence of the Christian Faith_, pp. 118-161. Footnote 171: Dr. Dods, _Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ_, p. 201; Dr. Fairbairn, _Studies in Religion as a Philosophy_, p. 36. Footnote 172: p. 58, one-vol. edition. Footnote 173: Trench, Hulsean Lectures, p. 150. Footnote 174: Sutta Nipâta, translated by Fausböll in vol. x. p. 102; parallel suggested to John xviii. 37. Footnote 175: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 144-147. Footnote 176: Dorner, _Doctrine of the Person of Christ_, Introd. pp. 56-60, 64-70; Liddon, Bampton Lectures, 1866, pp. 364-380; Lange, _Life of Christ_, vol. i. pp. 121-124. Footnote 177: _E.g._ the Targums. Footnote 178: _E.g._ _De Opific. Mund._ i. 4; _De Mundi incor._ § 16, 17. Footnote 179: Sears, _Fourth Gospel_, pp. 220 _seq._; Westcott, _Introduction to St. John_, pp. xvi, xvii; Dorner, _op. cit._ vol. i. pp. 327-332. LECTURE IV. THE DHARMA OF BUDDHA:[180] THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.