Indian Antiquary Vol 43

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[APRIL, 1914.
Not long after he was seated in that meditation these words of an esoteric spell issued from the middle of the diadem of the Blessed One.12
Salutation to the Buddha, the Law,43 the Congregation ! Salutation to the series of the seven All-perfect Buddhas, the congregation of Bodhisattvas and the hearers (srâvaka), Salutation to the great embodied Bodhisattvas, Maitreya and the rest!
Salutation to the saints (arhanta) of the world, to those who have entered the stream (of saintship, srauta panna), to the saints who will transmigrate only once (sakridagamin)!
Salutation to the perfectly enlightened ones of the present age 1
Salutation to the saints of the gods (Devarisi) to the useful power of the saints who hold the spells (vidyadhara-rist), to the saints (siddhi) who hold the spells !
Salutation to Brahmâ, to Indra, to the blessed Rudra, 4 the lord of Umâ (the turner away of, or from, difficulties).45 also to herself!
Salutation to the blessed Narayaņa in his forms doing great deeds!
Salutation to the blessed Mahkkala dwelling in the fearsome three-tiered city in the cemeteries and the troops of Mothers doing energetic deeds, the adored ones!
Salutation to the line of the blessed Tathagata!
Salutation to the line of the blessed Thunderbolt, the blessed Jewel, the blessed Eleph. ant & the blessed Virgins (Kumara), the blessed Nagas!
Salutation to the blessed king holding hero-destroying weapons, the completely perfect Saint the Tathagata, Buddha !
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect saint Tathagata Buddha Amitabha ! Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathagata Buddha Akşobhya !
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathagata Buddha of medicine Baişaj-ya Guru, the king of bery]47 light!
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint Tathagata Buddha, the vast flowery lord of the Sal-treel-grove?]!
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathagata Buddha the king of the top-most jewel' (ralna-sambhava ?)!
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathagata Buddha Samantabhadra ! Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathagata Buddha Vairoćana !
Salutation to the blessed completely perfect Saint, Tathâgata Buddha, the vast-eyed king of the scented top of the utpal-lotus flower!'
Having saluted all these, the Blessed Mother, 18 the Invincible White Umbrella-One, the Great Turner-aside of Evil, issued from the diadem of the Tathagata, to cut asunder com. pletely all the malignant d mons;49
42 The Stein MS. does not contain the foregoing important matter, which locates the origin of the spell and explains its name from its mode of origin. The Hodgson Sanskrit MS. (No. 77) omits the last sentence fromat' to 'diadem.'
43 To avoid needless reiteration I omit several of the phrases Salutation to.' 44 Legs-Idan drag-po; my MSS. Dictionary restores Legs-Idan to Bhagavati.'
45 Dkd-t'ub-zlog. This Tibetan etymology for Umi, differing from the current Brahmanical one namely light,' is in keeping with the Brahmanist legend of the prohibition addressed to Durgi by her mother, Umd, i. e., practise not austerities.'
46 In the Stein MS., Dr. Hoernle reads here raja (J. R. A. 8., 1911, 463) for which the Tibetan would suggest gau
47 Vaflurya. 48 Bchom-Idan-dae-ma, here the feminine form appears for the first time. 49 Gdon.