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V, 27.
PRAISING NIRVANA.
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VARGA 27. PRAISING NIRVANA.
At this time there was a Devaputra, riding on (or in) his thousand? white-swan palace in the midst of space, who beheld the Parinirvana of Buddha. 2115
This one, for the universal benefit of the Deva assembly, sounded forth at large these verses (gåthas) on impermanence : 'Impermanency is the nature of all (things), quickly born, they quickly die. 2116
With birth there comes the rush: of sorrows, only in Nirvana" is there joy. The accumulated fuel heaped up by the power of karman' (deeds), this the fire of wisdom alone can consume. 2017
'Though the fame (of our deeds ) reach up to heaven as smoke, yet in time the rains which descend will extinguish all, as the fire that rages at the kalpa's end is put out by the judgment? (calamity) of water.' 2118
1 The symbol for thousand' is probably an error for the preposition 'u' upon.
& The hamsa is the vehicle of Brahmâ. The white hamsa is probably the same.
3 The accumulation, or crowd of sorrows.
• Ts'ie mih, quiet extinction, or the destruction ending in quietness.
The collection of the pile of fuel of the deeds (or beams) of conduct (samskâras).
• Or, simply,' though our fame;' or it may refer to the renown of Buddha.
? Referring to the Buddhist account of the destruction and renovation of the universe; the last calamity' or 'judgment' was the destruction by water.
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