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224 See: A. Grünwedel (1970): 13; K.S. Murty (1978): 65–66; M. Walleser (1990): 9, 12 and 25; H.H.M. Schmidt (1978): 14. The Kathāsaritsāgara (chapter 41) describes Nāgārjuna as the minister of a king called Cirāyus (long-lived). Nāgārjuna acquired a mythic character, associated with the elixir of immortality, in the Tibetan tradition (see M.L. Walter, 1980: 28–31, 33, 39–40: text and English translation of the Kloṅ-chen sñin-gi thig-le of Hjigs-med gliṅ-pa Raṅ-byuṅ rdo-rje).