4 Abstract of the Contents of the Dul-vd. [Jaw. 



In the course of them, the six chief cities of India are said to be 

 Srdvasli, Sdketana, Vardnast, Vaisdli, Champa and Rdjagriha. 



The two first are in Oude, Vardnasi is Benares, Vaisdli is considered to be 

 Allahabad, Champa is Bhagalpur,and Rdjagriha,or Rdjgiri is in Behar. 



From Magadha, Sa'kya goes to Vaisdli, upon the invitation of the 

 hichchivi inhabitants of that city, who appear to have been republicans, 

 and to have possessed great riches. 



The peregrinations of Sa'kya are continued throughout the volume, 

 in which he encounters and converts many individuals, whose stories 

 are told, not only during the present, but their past lives. Amongst 

 others, Sa'kya relates his own, and how he became a Bodhisatwa, or 

 sage. The conclusion of the volume leaves him at the lake Manasa- 

 rovara, with 36 of his principal disciples. 



The third volume continues in the same strain. At a place in 

 Kosala, Sa'kya and his followers are entertained by way of test, and 

 are found to be moderate and easily contented. The Brahmans are 

 tried by a similar test, and proved to be greedy and insatiable. 



Similar lessons, as in the preceding volumes, are given to the priests. 

 They are permitted to eat treacle — to cook for themselves in time of 

 famine, and to cook in ten places — to eat meat under certain restric- 

 tions — to accept gifts from the laity. The stories and lectures are inter- 

 spersed with notices of medicines, and the mode of administering them, 

 and the medical employment of charms and incantations. 



The subject of the succeeding pages is the proper attire to be worn 

 by the disciples of Sa'kya ; they are directed to wear not more than 

 three pieces of cloth, of a red colour — to wear cotton garments when 

 bathing — to be clean in their dress and in their bedding — and never to 

 go naked : — an injunction at variance with some notions of Bud'dhism, 

 the images of the saints of which have been supposed to be represented 

 without clothes, and furnishing a distinguishing characteristic between 

 them and the images of the Digambara Jains. 



The subject of dress is followed by that of the use of mats or sheets 

 to lie upon. 



A more important division then succeeds, on the conduct to be ob- 

 served towards refractory and disputatious brethren. They are first to 

 be admonished in public congregation, and if impenitent, to be expelled 

 from the community. The mode in which confession, repentance, and 

 absolution are observed is next explained, and illustrated by examples. 



The residences and furniture of the monks are next described, and 

 the next subject is said to be dissensions in religious communities. 

 Little on this head, however, is given, and the rest of the volume is 



