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KALPA SÚTRA.
beloved of the gods, is the purport of the propitious dreams the noble Triśalá saw."
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When King Siddhartha had heard these things from the interpreters of dreams, laying them up in his joyful and delighted heart, and bringing together and raising his hands to them in token of respect, he thus spoke :-"O beloved of the gods, be it even so as you have said-let all you have predicted happen without fail. The interpretation you have given is just such as one could desire, equal to their highest aspirations, and, I have no doubt, in accordance with perfect veracity." Having then loaded them with sweetmeats, sweetsmelling garlands, garments, ornaments, and such gifts as were due to them, King Siddhartha, with the highest reverence and honour, dismissed the interpreters of dreams.*
other austerities, the entire subjugation of the mind. In the works of the Buddhists the chief virtues are reckoned three, the third of these being omitted. This is a different thing, however, from the three principles of Buddhism.
The Annotator here takes occasion to introduce a story, so good in itself, and so like one told of a debate that happened in the presence of King James, between a canny Scot and a Spanish doctor, that I here give a literal translation of it. There lived in the city of Paithan a learned man, who after expending thirty years in the study of the sciences became so puffed up with pride, that he stuck into his head-dress an elephant's hook as a flag of defiance, bound a belt round his stomach lest he
