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³ In Pāli *apadāna*, see above, p. 157 f. In Sanskrit, too, the secondary form *apadāna* is found. See *Burnouf*, Introduction à l'histoire du Bouddhisme Indien, p. 57; *Feer*, l. c., p. ix ff.; *Speyer*, l. c., p. 1 ff. The Chinese translators sometimes confuse *avadāna* with *nidāna*, but we must not, as H. *Zimmer* (ZII 3, 1925, 205 ff.) does, interpret *avadāna* as being synonymous with *nidāna* in the sense of "actions which causally determine as their consequences certain events which take place later in time." In the sense of "deed," "great deed," *avadāna* occurs not only in Jātakamālā I, beginning; III, 23; IV, 2, but also in the Rāmāyaṇa, in works of Kālidāsa and in other works written in classical Sanskrit.