198 Remarks on the supposed identity 



Asmin saha loka d ha taw : /-s ^ ^ — ^ ^ =8. 



I have thus examined the entire passage in reference to the 

 rythm. It therefore only remains, to consider the correct- 

 ness or otherwise of the criticisms offered by Mr. Turnour. 



With regard to the 12th line—if, as stated by Mr. Tur- 

 nour, a d with its inherent vowel is introduced, and the 

 whole line is thereby rendered dasardhan varsha satan hyagat; 

 it will be perceived that we not only destroy the harmony 

 of the entire verse, but render the line 9, instead of, — as it 

 is, and ought to be — 8 syllables. 



Sardhan varsha satan hyagat: ^ ^ ^ ^ — =8. 



As to the last line,—-" shadarhatva ?z«-sanshrayi ;" it is 

 stated that Professor VYilson has lost sight of the negative 

 na. Mr. Turnour can scarcely be deemed correct in offering 

 this criticism ; and on reference to the text we also find that 

 Professor Wilson has incorrectly extracted the passage. It 

 should be (see original) Shadahar vana sanshrayi, which 

 means, "he was one who spent six-days in the wilderness." 

 To render the passage as Mr. Turnour has translated, i.e. 

 (( he denounced the six Arahatwas" ; the word ee arhattoa" 

 should be either arhatwan, the accusative ; or arhatwasya, 

 the genitive. 



The passage given in the Nagari original furnishes no 

 great objection in point of grammar — certainly none in 

 regard to rythm ; and is altogether such as may be recon- 

 ciled with the doctrine of Nirvdha Samapatti in Buclhism, 

 by which it was incumbent on the ascetic, who had attained 

 the state of " Arahat" to spend six days in seclusion in the 

 wilderness, and on the seventh to leave it in search of food. 



Seeing, therefore, that the two most important coincidences 

 between the Cashmirian and Budhistical annals to which Mr. 

 Turnour refers, do not really exist, it may be inferred, that 

 his other reasons for the identity of Nagarjuna and Nagasena, 



