[Footnote 39: For instance, rules for eating, drinking (liquor), and for bathing. The Buddhist monk, except in summer, bathed once a fortnight only.] [Footnote 40: No one is so holy that sin does not hurt him, according to Buddhistic belief. The Brahman, on the contrary, was liable to become so holy that he could commit any sin and it did not affect his virtue, which he stored up in a heap by cumulative asceticism.] [Footnote 41: The offering and reception of gifts is always accompanied with water, both in Buddhistic and Brahmanic circles. Whether this was a religious act or a legal sign of surrender we have not been able to discover. Perhaps it arose simply from water always being offered as refreshment to a guest (with fruit), as a sign of guest-friendship.] [Footnote 42: Sakyaputtiya Samanas, _i.e_., Buddhists.] [Footnote 43: In the case of a monk having carnal connection with a nun the penalty was instant expulsion(_ib_. 60). The nuns were subject to the monks and kept strictly in hand, obliged always to greet the monks first, to go to lessons once a fortnight, and so forth.] [Footnote 44: Mah[=a]sudassana, the great King of Glory whose city is described with its four gates, one of gold, one of silver, one of Jade and one of crystal, etc. The earlier Buddha had as 'king of glory' 84,000 wives and other comforts quite as remarkable.] [Footnote 45: Translated by Davids, _Buddhist Suttas_ and _Hibbert Lectures_.] [Footnote 46: What we have several times had to call attention to is shown again by the side light of Buddhism to be the case in Brahmanic circles, namely, that even in Buddha's day while Brahm[=a] is the god of the thinkers Indra is the god of the people (together with Vishnu and Çiva, if the texts are as old as they pretend to be).] [Footnote 47: _Mah[=a]parinibb[=a]na_ iii, to which Rhys Davids refers, is scarcely a fair parallel.] [Footnote 48: The imitation of the original play on words is Rhys Davids', who has translated these Suttas in SBE. vol. XI. For the following see Fausböll, _ib_. vol. X.] [Footnote 49: After one enters on the stream of holiness there are only seven more possible births on earth, with one in heaven; then he becomes _arhat_, venerable, perfected, and enters Nirv[=a]na.] [Footnote 50: Compare the fairies and spirits in _ib_. v. 10; and in i. 31, 'give gifts to the gods.']