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palace, and present it, o king, for the worship of the Bodhisattva It is endowed with a profusion of exquisite flowers, and scented with all sorts of aromatic substances; I shall bring it down to wherever the Devi whooses to dwell.
Thus, Blakstius, all the chicfs of the Devas, who can put on any form they wishi (or of the class Kámívichara), created their respective palaces in the noble cit.v of Kapula. By the king S'uldhana a supehman paiace, unaltanable even loy Devils, was July furnishei. By the power of bis Mabávyóba Saináchi, the dusalto xhelt be presence of Máyádovi in every one of these houses, and, entering it, took luis seal, al- on a Ledsterul, on the right side of Máyádevi's womb. Each of those chiefs of Best felt gentified with the thought-.. It is in my house that the mother of tbe Codhisattva 11:14 taken her ds cUing, aud not elsewhere.” Thereof the proof:
“Through the influence of the Mahavşáha Samádbi, each thinking that it was his own creation, all the Devas had their objeet Fullilled, and the king's desire wa: fully gratitied.”
Now, among that godly assembly this idea truck some of the Devaputrag. Even the Devaputras of the class Mabírájakáyikas have fearlessly descended to the rank vilour of humani habiiation, but the question is how the Burlhisattva, who excels all the liberal-minded Devas of the class Thirty-three, the Vimas, and the Tushitas, and all others who is the aroma of purity, the jewel of heings,--should alandon his celestial form and the abode of Tushita, and tahe lus place for lon wonths in the wombf a mother nu å stinkmg human aloue?
Now the verable Ananda," inspired by the divine power of Budilla, thus aderessed the lord : " It is wonderful, iny lord, that Tatlıávrata shuulii have said that censurable is the abode in the womb of a mother, ro is the indulgence in desires; and it is more wonderful, my lord, how, b:iving excelled everything, aud become n Bodhisattva, the lord should abandon Tushita, the home of gods, and take his place in the womb of a mother in a stinking human abede? I cannot venture, my lord, to relate what your lordship had before deigned to expound.”
