^{page 1134 note 1} As the present writer does not know Chinese, he can only transcribe the Bussian characters.

^{page 1135 note 1} According to the Cha-gati-dipani (a Pāli work translated from Sanskrit, of which Prof. Minayeff brought a manuscript from Mandalay) the Yamaloka-nirayā are situated above the eight principal hells, on the four corners of Saṃjīva, the uppermost of these eight.

^{page 1136 note 1} Comp. on this point also the ‘Friendly Epistle’ (perhaps ‘Epistle to a Friend’ would be more accurate) of Nāgārjuna, ‘Journal of the Pāli T.S.’ 1886, v. 91 sqGoogle Scholar.

^{page 1136 note 2} ‘Descrīption of the eight unfavourable moments,’ see Fr. Ep. v. 64.

^{page 1137 note 1} The last words in the original are not quite clear to me (shin tu rtse zhil hgyur), but must mean something to this effect.