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[^1): For instance, in a flower miracle, the lotus blossoms fall in the shape of a circle around the halo of the Buddha. The halo was only introduced into India by Greek artists. Cf. A. *Foucher*, JA. 1903, s. 10, t. II, p. 208 f. and L'art grécobouddhique du Gandhāra, t. I, Paris 1905, p. 622. Also the numerous Buddhas under sunshades (see above, p. 245) are reminiscent of monuments of art. [^2): According to Senart (1, p. 469 f.) we should regard Mahāvastu I, 120 as an allusion to the Mahāyāna school of the Yogācāras, which would indicate the 4th century. It is possible, however, that Yogācāra is used here merely with its general meaning of "practising Yoga." Cf. *La Vallée Poussin* in ERE VIII, 329 note 4; Haraprasad *Śāstrī* in Ind. Hist. Qu. I, 1925, 205.