[Footnote 215: For other works attributed to Nâgârjuna see Nanjio, Nos. 1169, 1179, 1180, 1186 and Walleser's introduction to _Mittlere Lehre nach der Chinesischen Version_ The Dharmasangraha, a Sanskrit theological glossary, is also attributed to Nâgârjuna as well as the tantric work Pancakrama. But it is not likely that the latter dates from his epoch.]
[Footnote 217: The very confused legends about him suggest a comparison with the Dravidian legend of a devotee who tore out one of his eyes and offered it to Siva. See Grünwedel, _Mythologie_, p. 34 and notes. Polemics against various Hinayanist sects are ascribed to him. See Nanjio, Nos. 1259, 1260.]
[Footnote 218: Watters, _Yüan Chwang_, II. p. 286. Hsüan Chuang does not say that the four were contemporary but that in the time of Kumâralabdha they were called the four Suns.]
[Footnote 219: For Asanga and Vasubandhu see Péri in _B.E.F.E.O._ 1911, pp. 339-390. Vincent Smith in _Early History of India_, third edition, pp. 328-334. Winternitz, _Ges. Ind. Lit._ II. i. p. 256. Watters, _Yüan Chwang_, I. pp. 210, 355-359. Taranâtha, chap. XXII. Grünwedel, _Mythologie_, p. 35.]
[Footnote 220: Meghavarman. See V. Smith, _l.c._ 287.]
[Footnote 221: Two have been preserved in Sanskrit: the Mahâyâna-sûtrâlankâra (Ed. V. Transl., S. Lévi, 1907-1911) and the Bodhisattva-bhûmi (English summary in _Muséon_, 1905-6). A brief analysis of the literature of the Yogâcâra school according to Tibetan authorities is given by Stcherbatskoi in _Muséon_, 1905, pp. 144-155.]
[Footnote 222: Mahâyâna-sûtrâl. XVIII. 71-73. The ominous word _maithuna_ also occurs in this work, XVIII. 46.]
[Footnote 223: Vincent Smith, _l.c._ p. 275.]
[Footnote 224: But there are of course abundant Indian precedents, Brahmanical as well as Buddhist, for describing various degrees of sanctity or knowledge.]
[Footnote 225: The wooden statues of Asanga and Vasubandhu preserved in the Kofukaji at Nara are masterpieces of art but can hardly claim to be other than works of imagination. They date from about 800 A.D. See for an excellent reproduction Tajima's _Select Relics_, II. X.]
[Footnote 226: See Eitel and Grünwedel, but I do not know in what texts this tradition is found. It is remarkable that Paramârtha's life (_T'oung Pao_, 1904, pp. 269-296) does not say either that he was twentieth patriarch or that he worshipped Amida.]