Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02

Author(s): H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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BAUDDHA TRACTS FROM NEPAL.
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decide to which sect images and architectural remains belong—any characteristic peculiarity will therefore be very acceptable to Indian antiquarians and travellers, and a figure, in other respects possessing the usnal features, the spiral locks, thick lips, and large ears of a Jina, or a Buddha, engaged in devotion, under the shade of a tree, may generally, perhaps, be ascribed with safety to the latter. It is more common to find the Jain Pontiffs shaded by the expanded hoods of the many-headed snake.
The next work takes a wider range than the preceding in its enumeration of the objects of veneration in Nepal, and comprehends so many local peculiarities, that a correct translation of it is impracticable any where out of Nepal, except by a person familiar with the country and the system. The translation originally made was, therefore, referred to Mr. Hoogson, to whose revision and explanatory remarks it is indebted for any pretension to accuracy. The notes appended to the translation are almost wholly derived from communication with him on the subject of the text.
TRANSLATION
NAIPÁLÍYA DEVATÁ KALYÁNA PANCHA
VINSATIKA. May the first-born, the Holy SWAYAMPHÚ, ANTARUCHI, AMOGHA, AKSHOBHYA, the splendid Vairo