The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.74

c9.74

Finally, if we must conceal nothing, we seem to detect in the texts themselves a tendency to confuse the two kinds of wonders, and even to eliminate the former in favour of the latter. First of all, there seems to have been at times a misapprehension as to the real meaning of the expression *yamaka-prâtihârya*. This technical term « twin miracles » does in fact lend itself to confusion. We know now from the very explicit descriptions of the *Divyâvadâna* and the *Mahâvastu* that it must be understood