[Footnote 202:  The distinction between Sarvastivadin and Mulasarvastivadin is not clear to me.  I can only suggest that when a section of the school accepted the Mahavibhasha and were known as Vaibhashikas others who approved of the school chiefly on account of its excellent Vinaya called themselves Primitive Sarvastivadins.]

[Footnote 203:  See Sylvain Levi, J.A. 1908, XII. 57 ff., and Winternitz, Ges.  Ind.  Lit. II. i. pp. 201 ff.]

[Footnote 204:  The only reason for doubting it is that two stories (Nos. 14 and 31) in the Sutralankara (which appears to be a genuine work) refer to Kanishka as if he had reigned in the past.  This may be a poetic artifice or it may be that the stories are interpolations.  See for the traditions Watters on Yuean Chwang, II. 102-4 and Takakusu in J.R.A.S. 1905, p. 53 who quotes the Chinese Samyukta-ratna-pitaka-sutra and the Record of Indian Patriarchs.  The Chinese list of Patriarchs is compatible with the view that Asvaghosha was alive about 125 A.D. for he was the twelfth Patriarch and Bodhidharma the twenty-eighth visited China in 520.  This gives about 400 years for sixteen Patriarchs, which is possible, for these worthies were long-lived.  But the list has little authority.]

[Footnote 205:  The traditions are conveniently collected in the introduction to Teitaro Suzuki’s translation of The Awakening of Faith.]

[Footnote 206:  The Saundaranandakavya.]

[Footnote 207:  See Nanjio, Nos. 1182, 1351, 1250, 1299.  It is noticeable that the translator Paramartha shows a special interest in the life and works of Asanga and Vasubandhu.]

[Footnote 208:  See Winternitz, Ges.  Ind.  Lit. II. i. p. 211.  It is also noticeable that The Awakening of Faith appears to quote the Lankavatara sutra which is not generally regarded as an early Mahayanist work.]

[Footnote 209:  Nagarjuna cannot have been the founder of the Mahayana for in his Maha-prajna-paramita-sastra (Nanjio, 1169, translation by Kumarajiva) he cites inter alia the Lotus, the Vimalakirti-sutra, and a work called Mahayana-sastra.  See B.E.F.E.O. 1911, p. 453.  For Nagarjuna see especially Gruenwedel, Mythologie, pp. 29 ff. and the bibliography given in the notes. Jour.  Budd.  Text.  Soc. V. part iv. pp. 7 ff.  Watters, Yuean Chwang, pp. 200 ff.  Taranatha, chap.  XV and Winternitz, Ges.  Ind.  Lit. II. i. pp. 250 ff.]

[Footnote 210:  He is omitted from the list of Buddhabhadra, giving the succession according to the Sarvastivadins, to which school he did not belong.  I-Ching classes him with Asvaghosha and Aryadeva as belonging to the early period.]

[Footnote 211:  Rajatarangini, i. 173, 177.]

[Footnote 212:  Edited in the Bibliotheca Buddhica by De la Vallee Poussin and (in part) in the Journal of the Buddhist Text Soc. See too Walleser, Die Mittlere Lehre des Nagarjuna nach der Tibetischen Version uebertragen, 1911:  nach der Chinesischen Version uebertragen, 1912.]