57 | 2021

Abstract

1 "This has already been suggested by Franke" (Anālayo 2016, 16 fn. 21).2 "When he was seated cross-legged in his hermitage, touched with the hand the orbs of both the moon and sun" (svayam āśrame paryaṃkena niṣaṇṇo candramaṇḍalaṃ ca sūryamaṇḍalaṃ ca pāṇinā parāmṛṣati; Mvu, I, 284). See also Vism, 401 in which many monks affect and influence the moon and the sun, but these latter remain unaffected in the reality. If not otherwise stated, all translations are by the Author.