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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21. May the Chaitya of Sri Manju hill, erected by his disciples'; may the five deities established in the cities founded by Sri SÁNTA?; may the Puchhágra mountain, where SÁRYA expounded the unequalled Purúna", be propitious to you, I adore them.
22. May the King of Serpents, the Nága, the destroyer of Vighnarája, residing with his train in the Adhára lake'; may the five Lords of the three worlds", ANANDA Lokeswara, HARIHARIHARIVÁHA Lokeśwara, YAKSHAMALLA Lokeswara, AMOGHAPÁŠA Lokeswara, and TRILOKAVAŠANKARA Lokeswara, be propitious to you-I adore them.
Srimanju hill is the western part of mount Sambhu: between which and Srimanju there is a hollow, but no separation.
? ŚántAsri, according to the Sambhu Purána, was a Kshatriya King of Gaur, named PRACHAKÚA Deva, who, having come to Nepal, was made a Bauddha by Gurakar Bhikshu: the five divinities are VASUNDILARÁ Devi in Vásupur, Agni Deva in Agnipur, Viru Deva in l'áyupur, NÁGADEVA in Nagpur, and GUIIYADEVI in Sántapur. They are all on mount Sambhu round the great temple.
3 The Puchhagra mountain is the hollow of mount Sambhu ; the Puruna intended is the Sambhupuráňa [i. e. Svayambhúpurana. See Burnonf, "Introduction", 581. Hodgson, “Illustrations”, 25.]
4 The Nága here is KARKOŤA, one of the eight Nágas, who in Nepal, as well as in Kashmir [Rája Tar. III, 530.], is reported to have resided in the waters which filled those valleys; when the country was drained, he repaired to a reservoir near Kathmandu. The Adhára tank is called, by the Newárs. Tadahong.
5 The five Lokeswaras, regents of the worlds, are Bodhisattwas: Ananta is called by the Newárs Chobhá Dev, and Yakshamalla, Túyú Khwa.