[Footnote 286: Author of a poem called Dharmagîtâ.] [Footnote 287: _l.c._ cxvi ff. and ccxxxii.] [Footnote 288: _l.c._ ccxxxiv ff.] [Footnote 289: See Haraprasad Sastri, _l.c._ He gives a curious account of one of his temples in Calcutta. See also B.K. Sarkar, _Folklore Element in Hindu Culture_ for the decadence of Buddhism in Bengal and its survival in degenerate forms.] [Footnote 290: See B.H. Hodgson, _Essays on the languages, literature and religion of Nepal and Tibet_, 1874. For the religion of Nepal see also Wright, _History of Nepal_, 1877; C. Bendall, _Journal of Literary and Archæological Research in Nepal_, 1886; Rajendralal Mitra, _Sanskrit Buddhist literature of Nepal_; and especially S. Lévi, _Le Nepal_, 3 vols. 1905-8.] [Footnote 291: S. Lévi in _J.A._ II. 1904, p. 225. He gives the date as 627.] [Footnote 292: The doctrine of the Âdi-Buddha is fully stated in the metrical version of the Kâraṇḍa-vyûha which appears to be a later paraphrase of the prose edition. See Winternitz, _Gesch. Ind. Lit_. II. i. 238.] [Footnote 293: Compare the fusion of Śivaism and Buddhism in Java.] [Footnote 294: Or Vajrâcârya-arhat-bhikshu-buddha, which in itself shows what a medley Nepalese Buddhism has become.] [Footnote 295: See above chap. XX. for some account of these works.] [Footnote 296: Dedicated to the sacred river Vâgvatî or Bagmati.] [Footnote 297: Hardly any Buddhist Tantras have been edited in Europe. See Bendall, _Subhâshita-sangraha_ for a collection of extracts (also published in _Muséon_, 1905), and De la Vallée Poussin, _Bouddhisme, Études el Matériaux. Id._ Pancakrama, 1896. While this book was going through the press I received the Tibetan Tantra called Shrichakrasambhara (Avalon's Tantric Texts, vol. VII) with introduction by A. Avalon, but have not been able to make use of it.] [Footnote 298: See Foucher, _Iconographie bouddhique_, pp. 8 ff. De la Vallée Poussin, _Bouddhisme, Études et Matériaux_, pp. 213 ff. For Japanese tantric ceremonies see the Si-Do-In-Dzon in the _Annales du Musée Guimet_, vol. VIII.] [Footnote 299: In ancient Egypt also the Kher ḥeb or magician-priest claimed the power of becoming various gods. See Budge, _Osiris_, II. 170 and Wiedemann, _Magic im alten Aegypten_, 13 ff.] [Footnote 300: The Brahmâ-vihâras. _E.g._ Dig. Nik. XIII.] [Footnote 301: Mahâsukhakâya or vajrakâya.] [Footnote 302: De la Vallée Poussin, _Bouddhisme, Études et Matériaux_, p. 153.] [Footnote 303: See _Subhâshita-saṅgraha_ edited by Bendall. Part II. pp. 29 ff. especially p. 41. Parasvaharaṇam kâryam paradârânishevaṇam Vaktavyam cânṛitam nityam sarvabuddhâṃśca ghâtayet. See also Tathâgata-guhyaka in Rajendralal Mitra's _Sanskrit Literature in Nepal_, pp. 261-264.] [Footnote 304: For instance De la Vallée Poussin in his _Bouddhisme, Études et Matériaux_, 1896. In his later work, _Bouddhisme, Opinions sur l'histoire de la dogmatique_, he modifies his earlier views.]