FROM THE TIBETAN AUTHORITIES. 



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Note 11. — The NairanjanarivtiY must have been not far from Gaya, since it is stated that 

 Bodhisatwa (Shakya) went on foot to that river, and being much pleased with the situation 



of an inhabited place or village, called '^^ , (abounding in tanks or ponds) having a 

 turfy or grassy ground, and many shady or bushy trees, he remained there for six years* 

 devoted entirely to meditation, and using very little food. 



Note 12. — Some Tibetan writers say that his five first disciples were sent to Shakya from 

 Capila, by his father and grandfather (on the mother's side) to attend on him. But in the 



kka vol. of the Do class of the Ka-gyur, leaf 180, it is stated that he had found them at 



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jRdjagriha, as the disciples of a certain teacher ('^^'^'^ v. lak-shot) whom he had visited, to 

 learn his metaphysical theory. Shakya having perceived in a short time his whole system, 

 these five persons, admiring his great talents, and supposing that he would soon arrive at the 

 supreme perfection, and that they would have then an opportunity to be instructed by him, 

 when he left Rajagriha to live an ascetic life, accompanied him, and remained afterwards with 

 him, until he gave up his abstinence from food. 



Note 13. — Shaky a's mortifications differed from those of other penitents, in as much 

 as others mortified only their bodies, by subjecting themselves to several sorts of rigid practices, 

 without exercising their understanding. Shakya abstained from food, and exposed himself to the 

 vicissitudes of weather in order that he might keep in subjection his body during the exercise 



of his mental faculties in his meditations. (^f'^'P leaf 194.) Shakya declares to the Gelongs, 

 out of his own experience, that the mortifying of one's body, as some ascetics do, is not the 

 right way to obtain thereby perfection or emancipation. But that it is only by the right 

 application of one's understanding to meditation and reflection, that one may be freed from 

 the sorrows of birth, sickness, old age and death in a future life. 



Note 14. — These maidens are differently spoken of in different places. In one place it is 

 said that they were the daughters of a headman of the village in the vicinity of which 

 Shakya lived. In another place it is said that he was presented with a refined and honeyed 

 milk soup by a maiden of that village, and that her name was QI^^'gN " Well-born." 

 There are mentioned ten other maidens of the neighbourhood, who visited frequently 

 ShakyAj and prepared his victuals after he has commenced to take food regularly. 



Note IS. — With respect to Shakya's temptations by the Devil: ^S'P leaf 192-194 : 

 Shakya tells to his Gelongs that, during the six years of his ascetic life, he was continually 



followed by the Devil or Satan (S. BIdra, Tib. '^S^ Dutt, or Kama, the god of pleasures. 

 He is called also the lord of death; and his host Q^^z^^^'^ the troops of the 



lord of death) who sought every opportunity of seducing him, but that he never could succeed i 



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