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¹ Śikṣ., p. 166. A long passage on morality is quoted on p. 100 f., and a passage on the advantages of a hermit's life, on p. 198 ff.; a beautiful verse on maitrī, love, which is to be esteemed far above any cult, is quoted on p. 318. In the Śikṣ. the title is always Candrapradīpa-Sūtra. [^1): Thus according to K. Watanabe in JRAS 1907, 663; Nanjio, No. 191. Both titles also occur in the Tibetan Kanjur, s. Körös. in AMG II, 249. The Śūraṅgamasamādhi, which is also quoted in the Śikṣā-Samuccaya, is a different work from the Samādhirāja. [^2): Edited by Rai Sarat Chandra Dās, Bahadur, and Pandit Sarat Chandra Śāstrī, fasc. 1, Calcutta 1898 (Buddhist Text Society of India). More does not seem to have been published. The complete title reads thus in the colophons: Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-sūtrendrarāja. The fascicule contains Chapts. I-XV. Rāj. Mitra, Nep. Buddh. Lit., p. 241 ff., gives the contents of 21 chapters. Cf. Burnouf, Introduction, pp. 471 ff., 490; Bendall, Catalogue, p. 12 f.; M. Anesaki in ERE IV, p. 839. An edition of the Suvarṇa-Prabhāsa was prepared by the late Bunyiu Nanjio, and is being made ready for the press by his pupil Hotoku Idzumi, s. J. Takakusu in The Young East, May 1928, p. 404. [^3): This list of impossible things is to be found, in part word for word, in Jātaka No. 436 (Atṭhāna-Jātaka, "the Jātaka of the Impossibilities"). Cf. Th. Zachariae, Kleine Schriften, Bonn 1920, p. 70 f.; She-Rab Dong-bu or Prajnya Danda by Lu-Trub (Nāgārjuna ed. and transl. by W. L. Campbell, Calcutta 1919, p. 98 (vs. 194); and Penzer-Tawney, The Ocean of Story, IX, 152.