The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.85

c9.85

¹ Cf. *Divyâvadâna*, p. 162. We know that the heaven of the Akanishṭhas is the highest heaven of the *Rûpadhâtu*, at the 23rd story of the Buddhist paradises. We remember also that the two kings of the serpents, « Nanda and his junior », play a part in a number of episodes in the life of Buddha, beginning with the bath which followed the nativity. We shall find information concerning them extracted by M. Ed. HUBER from the *Vinaya* of the Mûla-Sarvâstivâdins in the *B. É. F. E.-O.*, VI, 1906, pp. 8 sqq.