Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.t1.7

c8.t1.7

∗ The text says that “twelve myriads of Brahmans and citizens of Magadha” surrounded the king. These extravagantly high figures differ far too widely from the statements regarding the number of disciples accompanying Buddha (a few hundreds, at most thousands), for us to be in a position to draw conclusions from them with any certainty whatever as to the excessive character of the latter, in themselves very credible, numbers.