耆那教经，第一部：阿查兰伽经与劫波经（东方圣书第22卷）

Indeed, though the frainas fondly imagine Siddh^rtha to have been a powerful monarch and depict his royal state in glowing, but typical colours, yet their statements, if stripped of all rhetorical ornaments, bring out the fact thirdly, in the last clause, in the singular. Buddhaghosa explains this by saying that there were two villages of the same name on the shore of the same piece of water.’ The plural iVdtikd denotes, in my opinion, the Kshatriyas, the singular is the adjective specifying Giwgakdvasatha, which occurs in the first mention of the place in the Mahdparinibbftna-Sutta and in the Mahdvagga VI, 30, 5, and must be supplied in the former book wherever Nddika is used in the singular. I think the form Nddika is wrong, and Adtika, the spelling of the Mahavagga, is correct. Mr. Rhys Davids is also mistaken in saying in the index to his trans¬ lation : ‘ Nddika, near Patna.’ It is apparent from the narrative in the Mahdvagga that the place in question, as well as Kofiggdma, was near Vesdli. * See Weber, Indische Studien, XVI, p. 262. xii