The History of Buddhist Thought c17.25

c17.25

¹ This term is interpreted uncertainly by the commentators. Literally it is “without a wave”, i.e. with continuous flame, but Kern has shown that it is probably for avācī “below”, and corrupted through analogy with udīcī “above”. For the whole of this cosmology see *State of the Dead* in Hastings, *ERE*.