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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In the introduction to his edition and translation of the Madhura Sutta (J.R.A.S. 1894, p. 341 ff.) Mr. R. Chalmers calls attention to the Gāthā concerning the pre-eminence of the Kṣatriyas, which the Buddha quotes at the end of the Ambaṭṭha Sutta and elsewhere with great approval, and attributes to the Bramhā Sanaṃkumāra, the Sanatkumāra of the Brahmanical literature, who is described both as a teacher of the Yogaśāstra and as one of the mind-born sons of Brahmā, or as identical with Skanda. Mr. Chalmers thinks that the verse can hardly be a concoction of the Buddhists, as the exposure of such a forgery would have been inevitable. On the other hand, he believes that with the growing pretensions of the Brahmans such an utterance might have easily dropped out of the official recensions of the Brahmanical texts. But he expresses the hope that the verse may be discovered in Sanskrit, to the credit both of the Buddha and of the Brahmans.
page 586 note 1 In Pratapchandra Ray's translation the chapter is numbered 184.
page 586 note 2 In accordance with a popular derivation, kṣāṃ trāyata iti kṣatriyaḥ.
page 586 note 3 Or, if abhiyāḥbe derived, not from a-bhiyas, b'ut from abhi-yā,‘the assailant’ or ‘the watchman’ (Nīlakaṇṭha).
page 587 note 1 According to Baudhāyana, Dh. Sū. i, 18, 2, Brahma (the supreme self) gave this attribute to the Kṣatriyas.
page 588 note 1 See Weber, , “Indische Studien,” vol. x, pp. 9, 26, 29, 30Google Scholar.