________________ 50 Siri Sirivalakaha mities (such as excessive rain, drought etc.), und diseases such as plague etc. which bring ruin (i.e. death) to the bipeds and quadrupeds; - (all these) do not remain in the world (241) "Even barren women get sons, even the children of ' nindus' (i.e. of women bearing dead children ) play with joy (i.e. become alive and grow up), the defects of the stomach disappear, and all other kinds of misfortune perish." (242) Having heard this greatness (of 'the. pacifying-water' obtained from the Bathing of the Siddhachakra), and seeing it ( i.e. the greatness of 'the pacifying-water ') with their own eyes, the people, with great deli ght, specially (i.e. with great devotion) began to take the pacifying water. (243) That multitude of lepers also, having their bodies sprinkled over with water, had their diseases aleniated in no time, and they came to acquire (in their hearts) a love for religion.(244) And Mayana also, seeing the matchless beauty of (her) husband, and therefore, full of delight, said to her husband : "Oh lord ! all this is (due to) the favour of the preceptor (245) "That obligation which a preceptor, possessed of compassion devoid of any motive, does to the
