Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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CILATTER I.
Sherei, and Shy-10-fa-sylr. Chiuugo; nyan.yout Tibetan, t) the nn.'' cient cavit. of K uda, placed in the travellers Fa llisrand llicuan Thaug merly on the site of Hyzakid in Oul. General C'urningum ha- since iletid The locality with great precision.. (Arch. Supery Reports.) The place is abrated for being the site of largerigi antall di bine delicate 10 Sákyn ligne sich l ou subles tire places, it minister of Prizewijit, named Sudaula 1. el. was noted for great liberalis y wit had earned for Linaihe title of " Alumner utephan, ".1m:thupindndo.
9 BW kshuk 18, Bhiksluni: Mevr. Gron, Tib.- Pi-kvicula, Chinese, literally, we divants per who too renoncord luie, and are nonasticisin. 'They ar e relation to ipak ( cbders) is the frame of the listinen (hurch: do to the laity, with this exoption that, the filter aro eligible to cherical duties, the former aro munil to deve their whole life to the study of the doctrines of their faith, tu melation, and to the quinement of those cacellencics which chararteri portret Hudba, without ever being allowed to engage themelves in any prestly orruption. Tlry are called Srnmanas, from timir great awtity the Súrmanen of the Greeks); and for living constituted the m ore of Malva (Snicukrus bearurs). their widers are styled Stharras, and the moru distinguisired among them the rurakusgreat bremers. For lucid account of the commony of initiis into the order to renier is referred to Mr. Hoon'work i Buds, p. 212; and for the religioits and social Avances appropriate to it, including asevtirism, mendicity, dr., to l'ofer Vown '" (atechism of the Shaniano." M. Sigul's Liher ile ofiiis Nucerilotam Buildi. corum is a brief summary of the ceremony of initiation in l'úli, which may likewise im P(1) alted.
9. Jyárakst'YDILYA. -Every one of the names is proerded by the epithet Ayushmut, " -powering," "immortal," (in Pati, A wisso), which I have not doined necessary to repeat. According to Cingalese ctiquette this epithet, prounive of affection and tenderness, is applicalile tu equals and inforiors but not to superiors. I
• The Ilgrimage of Fallian, p. 169. + Asiatic Resurcha, XX, p. 86
Clough's Mali Crammar, p. 70.