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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In connection with the story of Paṭācārā I had occasion to refer (J.R.A.S. 1893, pp. 869–871) to a series of parallels in Eastern and Western literature, one of which was the life of St. Eustathius Placidus. The second half of this Vita contained those incidents which made me connect it with the cycle of which Paṭācārā seemed to be the prototype. The first half, however, was totally different, and must have been added to the other portion by the compiler of the Life. That “Life” was worthy of being put up as an example to the pious, which contained a greater number of temptations successfully withstood, of sufferings meekly borne, of miracles wondrously wrought. Therefore the miraculous and pathetic portions were enlarged and specially dwelt upon.
page 335 note 1 Gesta Romanorum. Translated from the Latin by the Rev. Ch. Swan, revised by W. Hooper, London, 1877, No. ex. p. 191 ff. Cf. Gesta Romanorum, ed. Oesterley, Berlin, 1872, No. 110, p. 444 ff. and the important bibliographical notes, p. 730.
page 337 note 1 v. W. Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum, iii. 1872, p. 1132 f.
page 337 note 2 v. R. A. Lipsius, Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten u. Apostellegenden, i. Braunschweig, 1883, p. 281.
page 338 note 1 It is also translated in full in ProfDavids's, Rhys ‘Buddhist Birth Stories,’ No. 12, p. 205 ftGoogle Scholar.