[Footnote 273:  See Taranatha, chap.  XXVIII.]

[Footnote 274:  Chap.  XXXVI.  It is interesting to notice that even at this late period he speaks of Hinayanists in Bengal.]

[Footnote 275:  Often called Muhammad Bakhtyar but Bakhtyar seems to have been really his father’s name.]

[Footnote 276:  Raverty, Tabat-i-Nasiri, p. 552.  “It was discovered that the whole of that fortress and city was a college and in the Hindi tongue they call a college Bihar.”]

[Footnote 277:  Many of them have been collected by Pandit Haraprasad Sastri in Jour.  As.  Soc. Bengal, 1895, pp. 55 ff. and in his Discovery of living Buddhism in Bengal, Calcutta, 1897.]

[Footnote 278:  Chap.  XL ad fin. Is the Ramacandra whom he mentions the last Yadava King (about 1314)?  Taranatha speaks of his son.]

[Footnote 279:  Caitanya-caritamrita, chap.  VII, transl. by Jadunath Sarkar, p. 85.  This biography was written in 1582 by Krishnadas.  Caitanya died in 1533.]

[Footnote 280:  Census of India, 1901:  vol.  VI.  Bengal, pp. 427-430.]

[Footnote 281:  The Archaeological Survey of Mayurabhanj (no date? 1911), vol.  I. pp. cv-cclxiii.  The part containing an account of Buddhism in Orissa is also printed separately with the title Modern Buddhism, 1911.]

[Footnote 282:  For Ramai Pandit see Dinesh Chandra Sen, Hist.  Bengali Language and Lit. pp. 30-37, and also B.K.  Sarkar, Folklore Element in Hindu Culture, p. 192, and elsewhere.  He appears to have been born at the end of the tenth century and though the Sunya Purana has been re-edited and interpolated parts of it are said to be in very old Bengali.]

[Footnote 283:  Nagendranath Vasu quotes a couplet from the Mahabharata of the poet Saraladasa:  “I pay my humble respects to the incarnation of Buddha who in the form of Buddha dwells in the Nilacala, i.e. Puri.”  The Imperial Gazetteer of India (s.v.  Puri Town) states that in modern representations of Vishnu’s ten avataras, the ninth, or Buddhavatara, is sometimes represented by Jagannatha.]

[Footnote 284:  I give the dates or the authority of Narandra Nath while thinking that they may be somewhat too early.  The two authors named wrote the Sunya Samhita and Nirguna Mahatmya respectively.]

[Footnote 285:  l.c. clxxvi ff., ccxix-ccxxiii, ccxxxi.]

[Footnote 286:  Author of a poem called Dharmagita.]

[Footnote 287:  l.c. cxvi ff. and ccxxxii.]

[Footnote 288:  l.c. ccxxxiv ff.]

[Footnote 289:  See Haraprasad Sastri, l.c. He gives a curious account of one of his temples in Calcutta.  See also B.K.  Sarkar, Folklore Element in Hindu Culture for the decadence of Buddhism in Bengal and its survival in degenerate forms.]

[Footnote 290:  See B.H.  Hodgson, Essays on the languages, literature and religion of Nepal and Tibet, 1874.  For the religion of Nepal see also Wright, History of Nepal, 1877; C. Bendall, Journal of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal, 1886; Rajendralal Mitra, Sanskrit Buddhist literature of Nepal; and especially S. Levi, Le Nepal, 3 vols. 1905-8.]