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him ; they all enter into his religious order — not one returns even to give 

 intelligence. At last, Char-ka, his minister, begs leave to go him- 

 self, and bring intelligence to him. He promises that, in every case, he 

 will certainly come back. With a letter from the king he repairs to Shakya 

 at Shrdvasti. He too becomes a convert to Buddhism, but he is per- 

 mitted to go back, as a priest, to inform the king of these events, and to 

 predict that in seven days he should see his son at Capilavdstu. Shakya's 

 instructions to Char-ka how he should behave himself at Capilavdstu, and 

 answer the king's inquiries, leaf 144. Leaf 144. Comparison of great 

 and small things. Preparations for the reception of Shakya. 



Leaf 146. Orders from the king to his officers, to build in the Nya- 

 grodha grove, sixteen large and sixty smaller rooms. Shakya, with seve- 

 ral of his disciples, goes to meet his father at Capilavdstu. 



Leaf 149. Description of their meeting — their mutual compliments 

 and conversation (in verse), leaf 150 to 152. Religious instruction : — the 

 Shakya race adopts his religion, and from every family or house one per- 

 son takes the religious character. The stories of several individuals of the 

 family of Shakya. Leaf 164, Nye-var-j/k'hor, a barber of the Shdkyas, 

 enters into that religious order — acquires great perfection — he is the 

 pretended compiler of the Dulvd class. 



Leaf 171. The history of Kohudinya, one of the principal disciples 

 of Shakya, as also that of others. 



Leaf 242-3. Kun-X>gah-vo (Sans. A'nanda) is made the chief dis- 

 ciple of Shakya. • 



Leaf 341. Lus-hp'hags-mahi-bu Ma-5kyes-Dgra causes his father's 

 (VimbasXra's) death. By whom he is comforted in his great troubles or 

 anxieties. 



Leaf 349. Lhas-sbyin or Lhas-byin, one of Shakya's cousins — his 



great hatred and malice towards ShXkya. Several instances quoted, and 



many moral tales told by Shakya, and applied to himself and to this 



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