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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
On the 17th May, 1877, Mr. Rendle exhibited to the Society a curious Chinese roll, illustrating Buddhist mythology, and dated in a cyclical year corresponding to A.D. 1631, in illustration of which I exhibited another roll of the same subject.
page 239 note a Proceedings, 2d. S. vii. p. 229.
page 240 note a The demons of Wisdom, Learning, Literature, Destiny, and Friendship; viz., those of the five classes that had caused him to be banished.
page 241 note a The famous patra or bowl of Buddha, in memory of which Buddhist priests still carry a bowl for collecting alms.
page 242 note a Trisarana, i.e. taking refuge in Buddha, the law, and the priesthood.
page 242 note b Panchasila, i.e. abstaining from murder, theft, adultery, lying, and drunkenness.
page 243 note a A famous caligraphist. See Mayers 46.