The History of Indian Literature c9.63

c9.63

² † Csoma Kölösi, who gives an account of this in *As. Res.* xx. 50, uses these phrases: "They meet on the occasion of a festival at Rájagriha: . . . their behaviour *during the several exhibitions of spectacles*—their mutual addresses after the shows are over." By 'spectacle' must we here necessarily understand 'dramatic spectacle, drama'?? [Precisely the same thing applies to the word *visúka*, which properly only signifies 'merrymaking' in the Suttas of the Southern Buddhists, where the witnessing of such exhibitions (*visúka-dassana*) is mentioned among the reproaches directed by Bhagavant against the worldly ways of the Brahmans; see Burnouf, *Lotus de la Bonne Loi*, p. 465; *I. St.*, iii. 152–154.]