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[N.8.] 
subterranean layer. On the other hand, the characteristic 
features of the northern literature shine out from the southern 
one, when from the southern texts we advance to the com- 
mentaries, i.e. if we penetrate into a layer which clearly is 
younger than that of the texts themselves. I venture to hope 
that on the basis of considerations such as I have sketched, 
attempt, in peace of mind, the reconstruction of the oldest 
the Pratimoksa Sitra. Our sources further show us, I think, 
with great clearness how those thoughts and ordinances have 
me, the advances made in 
uddhism, of which I attempted 
ketch in outline—the Buddhism not of the 
ot just what 
this transitory world begi 
Upanisads and becomes t 
belief t escape 
f that a man may Pp dicant first appears in 
d 
palpable forms. Buddha 
true descendants of that 
aj Aranyaka places before us— 
aan tr whee ee iad with, its distinction of 
object and subject fills with deep dissatisfaction, and spaphoste 
this home, which is no true home, pass over into t i “Ke 
lessness of spiritual life. Is it thinkable that men, aig pe 
those deep and imperious wants of the heart which all thos 
texts reveal to us, should have found their satisfaction in 
