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[58] Spence Hardy, "Legends and Theories of the Buddhists," p. 243, when mentioning this circ.u.mstance, makes the strange mistake of confounding Behar with Berar.
[59] See Note 4, "Vikramaditja's Throne discovered."
[60] See supra, p. 241.
[61] According to Abbe Huc's spelling, Tchen-kis Khan.
[62] According to Abbe Huc's spelling, Tale Lama.
[63] See the story in Note 8 to "Vikramaditja's Youth."
[64] See Note 4 to "Vikramaditja's Throne discovered."
[65] Consult C. F. Koppen, Die Lamaische Hierarchie.
[66] According to Huc's version of his history he was not born in a Lamasery, but in the hut of a herdsman of Eastern Tibet, in the county of Amdo, south of the Kouku-Noor.
[67] This elaborate derivation, however, has been disputed, and it is more probable the name is derived from two words, signifying "the Indian ox." In Tibet it has no name but "great ox."
[68] Virgil, Georg. ii. 121, "Velleraque ut foliis depectant tenuia Seres;" and Pliny, H. N. vi. 20, 2, "Seres, lanicio silvarum n.o.biles, perfusam aqua depectentes frondium canitiem." Also 24, 8; and xi. 26, 1.
[69] See infra, note 2 to "Vikramaditja's Birth."
[70] Burnouf, i. 265.
[71] See supra, p. 351 and p. 385.
[72] See Max Muller's "Chips from a German Workshop."
