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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
A METRICAL VERSION
OF THE
LIFE OF BUDDHA BY MA-MENG-PU-SA.
(ASVAGHOSHA BODHISATTVA.)
KIOUEN I.
Varga 1. The Birth. .(There was) a descendant of the Ikshvaku' (family), an invincibleSâkya monarch, pure in mind (mental gifts) and of unspotted virtue, called therefore 'Purerice' (Suddhodana). I
Joyously reverenced by all men (or, ‘beings '), as the new moon (is welcomed by the world), the king indeed (was) like the heaven-ruler Sakra, his queen like (the divine) Sakt. 2
Strong and calm of purpose as the earth, pure in mind as the water-lily, her name, figuratively assumed, Maya, she was in truth incapable of classcomparison. 3
1 The Ikshvâku (sugar-cane) family of Potala. Suddhodana was the father of the Bodhisattva.
. Wou-shing; this is the equivalent for the Agitavati (river). But it here refers to the Sâkyas, as a race of K’akravartin monarchs. • Or, like Sakra, king of Devas, the husband of Sakî.
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