On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.178

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¹ Lal. *ch.* XXI: Hsing-chi-ching *ch.* 28; T'ai-tzŭ-sui-ying-ching *ch.* 1; Mahāvastu T. II. p. 410. [Watters thinks that the expression in the Pali Vinaya implies a knowledge, at the time when it was composed, of this legend of Māra's Temptation. Windisch in his ‘Māra und Buddha’ (pp. 304 foll.) has carefully discussed the history of this legend. He shows that it cannot be traced in Pali earlier than the 5th century A. D., and that the expression Watters refers to does not imply any knowledge of the temptation legend.]