________________ 24 Siri Sirivalakaha person had, I found, alighted the elephant at a certain place in order to calm down her bodily pain, and judging from the size of her body I decided that she was a queen, and see. ing some small bits of the skirt of a red garment entangled in a tree I decided that her husband was alive. Finding that she had got up after supporting herself on her hand on the ground, I decided that she was heavy with child; and judging the unbearable freeing and placing on ground her right leg I decided that she was about to deliver. Now as regards the question of the old woman my reflection was thus :--"Just as her pot merged into the dust from which it was born, in the same way the son also will meet his mother who gave him birth". Then after this the preceptor looked at Vimrus'yakari with delight and praised him; and to Avimrus'yakari he replied: " It is your fault, that you do not ponder over, and not mine. We (preceptors) are simply to explain to you the meaning of the s'astra' (or scriptures ), but it is for you to ponder over. Thus this was the Vainayiki Buddhi of Vimrus'ayakari. (3) हेरण्णिअ (Sk. हैरण्यक) or the Illustration of a gold and silver merchant: which illustrates the Karmaja Buddhi. He (i. e. &
