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¹ *Cf.* Bimala Charan *Law*, The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa, Calcutta and Simla, 1923 (Calcutta Or. Series, No. 9, E. 3); Max *Müller* in SBE 10 (I), pp. xii.xxiv; *Minayeff*, Recherches, 189 ff.; Thos. *Foulkes* in Ind. Ant. 19, 1890, pp. 105-122 and T. W. *Rhys Davids* in ERE II, 885 ff. The "biography" written by the monk Mahāmaṅgala in Burma, perhaps in the 14th century (*cf.* Geiger, Pāli Literatur und Sprache, p. 31, para. 40) and published by James *Gray*, Buddhaghosuppatti or the Historical Romance of the Rise and Career of Buddhaghosa, London, 1892, is purely legendary.