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ANALYSIS OF THE DULVA, 



Leaf 227 Various defects of the human body are enumerated in 

 verse. Such as have them, prohibited from being received into the 

 religious order of Shakya. 



.Leaf 230 to 253. Account of the great prodigies exhibited by 

 Shakya, at Shravasti in Kosala. The six Mu-stegs-chan (Sans. Tirtliikd) 

 teachers, being discontented with the treatment they meet with from the 

 king, the officers, the brahmans, and the people in general, (who all show 

 much favour to Gautama and his followers,) so that they can hardly gain 

 their livelihood, endeavour to vie with Gautama in exhibiting prodigies, 

 to show their skill and power. They are defeated : — for shame some 

 of them put an end to their existence, others retire to the hills on the 

 north of India. Leaf 248, the great astonishment of all at the miracles 

 of Gautama,^ — their applause. 



Leaf 253 to 307. The story of ^skyed-pa a king in Lus-hpliags 

 and other tales ( Sans. Videha) told by Shaky a,^ — political intrigues. The 

 farther history of the before mentioned six teachers. 



Leaf 276. The story of >S'man-ch'hen, the son of Gang-po in a town 

 of Puma kachha a hilly country. Leaf 321 to 325. Sho-shuivi-pa, a 

 cunning woman. Ingenious stories of female craft. Leaf 326. Mention 

 made of the Hbal-gumata river, on the banks of which the priests of 

 Shakya used to exercise themselves. 



Leaf 326. Shakya in the Nyagrodha grove (near Ser-skya Sans. 

 Capila). Gautami', with 500 other women of the Shakya race, goes to 

 Shakya, and begs of him to receive them into the religious order. He will 

 not permit it, and recommends to them to remain in the secular state, to 

 wear clean clothes. They will not desist. They follow him afterwards 

 in his peregrination through the Brija country to Nadika. They beg him 

 again and again to receive them. At last, on the request of Kun-dgah-vo, 

 (Sans. A'nanda) he permits them to take the religious character. Several 

 rules and instructions respecting the order of nuns. Various stories of 

 these females that happened mostly at Mnyan-yod (Sans. S/irdvasti), 



