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LALITA-VISTARA
· "Enjoyment with thee for even a thousand Kalpas produce not natiety, as pouring their contents into the ocean satisfies not rivers ; come thou, therefore, O contented iti wisdom, and allay the degre of this longing world.
« Thou art of untarnished fame, dallying with virtue and not with vice ;-cast thy benign e f grace on nien and gods.
“The rehearsal of religious discourse satiates not the godly;
even deigu to turn thine eyes on those who have been for the remitic of mortals.
« Thon beloket Bulilhas over the ten quarters of the globe, and Renrest of the grat religion ;-0 pure-cyed, dispense the same unto mankind !
"The beauty of the righteousness, oh thou prosperous, irradiates the niansion of Tushita; shower thou, O kil-hearted, thy favours on Janbudvipa.
" The Dévas, who overstopping the limits of the region of desize (Kimwilhátu), bave attained that of semblance (Rápadhaku) long to come in contact with the Bodhi of perfect devotion.
" Lord! thou destroyer of the works of Mára ;---thou hast overcone beretic.- knower of the trinity, why dost tbou tarry? the tinc is come; neglect it not.
"O mighty, cnveloping, as with a clond, the earth burning with the fire of prisery, pour on it the showers of imigortality, and assunge the sufferings of perishing mankiud.
"Thou proficient and truthful Physician of the eternally sick, haston to place them in the felicity of extinction (nirvana'). with the panaca of triple emancipation.
" Unaware of thy lion's mar, jackals howl undismayel; resunnd thou thiy voice of Buddha Sinha to confound all vuljine beretis. (lirchikax.)
" Hekling forth the lamp of intelligence, and with tlıy benign might and vigour, descend on the face of the earth, and destroy Jina aud Mára with tho palm of thy hands.
" Cast thy eyes on the regents of the four quarters whu long Lo prosent tluce with a dish, and on the Sakras and Brálmaņs who will accept thy advent
| SR No. | 011126 |
| Book Title | Lalit Vistara |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Rajendralala Mitra |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 292 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 18 MB |