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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
It is a far cry from Gotama the Buddha to Mr. William Morris; but it will be the object of these pages to establish the succession, not apostolic but literary, linking together the Victorian poet and the Indian sage of the fifth century B.C. Like the author of “The Earthly Paradise,” Gotama had an ear for
The gentle music of the bygone years,
Long past to us with all their hopes and fears.
page 39 note 1 No. 78 in Fausböll's edition of the Pāli text, vol. i. (Trübner, 1877.)
page 40 note 1 See Heritage's edition for the Early English Text Society (Trübner, 1879).
page 40 note 2 See Ellis's, “Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances” (London, 1848)Google Scholar.
page 40 note 3 Palmer's, translation in the “Sacred Books of the East,” vol. ii. p. 178Google Scholar; Burton's, “Arabian Nights,” vol. i. p. 42, note 2Google Scholar; Sale's, “Koran,” p. 344Google Scholar of the 1844 edition; Lane's, “Selections from the Kur-ān” (London, 1879), p. 137Google Scholar.
page 41 note 1 See Levi's, “Parabeln aus Thalmud,” p. 82 et seqq., 2nd edit.Leipzig, 1877Google Scholar.
page 42 note 1 Sale refers to En Jacob, part 2 (haggadic Tales from the Talmud), andv to Yalkut in lib. Eeg. p. 182, which merely refers to the Talmud. Another Talmudic version, given in the (earlier) Gemara of the Jerusalem Talmud, runs as follows: God said unto Solomon, ‘Why should my crown be on thy head? Come down from off my throne!’ And therewithal, as Rabbi Jose ben Chanina relates, there came down an Angel in the form of Solomon, who bade the king come down from the throne and seated himself thereon. Solomon wandered about through synagogues and schools repeating the words (Eccl. i. 1), 'I Koheleth was king over Israel in Jerusalem.‘A king,’ they answered him, ‘lives in his palace, and dost thou say I Koheleth am king?' They beat him with a cane, and set a plate of beans before him. Then said he (Eccl. ii, 10), ‘This is my portion and reward for all my pains.’ This Jerusalem version omits all account of the restoration of Solomon to his throne.