Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA-PISTARA:
10. L'úeņa.-A merchant of Surpárika (E. .. rtofemy; modern Sipeler), a sca-port near the mouth of Krishná. Fle was converted by Sákra himself at the recommendation of Anáthapindada, and was ever afterwards one of the most faithful and renowned disciples of the great Teacher. The Vinaya legends ubound in anccdotes of his great goodness and imperturbable patience, and even Sakya limself is often made to apostrophise te his excellencies.
11. SÁNDTTRA,-- one of the first disciples of Sákya Siñha. The Hrst volmy of the Dolra gives a long account of his life. It is said that he was the son of Tishya (Skar-rgyal, Tib.), a learned Bráhmau of Nálandó, a village near Rajagriha, and early ovinced great proficiency in Brühmaņic learning. His real name was 'patishya, (Nye rgyal, Tib.), but was commonly called Sáriputra, in conmemoration of the wisdom of his mother sáriki. He had, in company with his friend and neighbour Manilgalsáyana (called in the text MaháMaudgalyávana) travelled over all central India in search of true wisdom, and at list betook to the asylum of Sakya, whose religion they adorned and whell. Sariputra was noted for intelligence, and his friend for grual proficiency in performing miracles.*
12. Nasa, Raul 1.4.--NANDA, (Cúvo, Tib.) brother of S'ákya :
RAHII. 1, sometimes called Liuuia, (Tib. SGRA-G'CUAN I'USIN) the son of Sákya ly YAGODDARÁ.
13. Xxaba.-(l'un-gávo, Tib.) son of Dotodana, brother of Sud. Ahuda.. for further particulars regarding Ananda see Note, Chap. XXVI.
14. Builhinuttry,-- Bodhisatto, Páli ; Phousa, Chinese. Fle who 10830980's the essence of Boddhi, or, of the intelligence of Buddha ; * title originally applied to those disciples of S'ákya, who stood next to himself in the order of parfection. But the theistic speculations of later times, which eren apotheosized metaphysical abstractions, devised # very intricate system of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas wholly super, burran, and we may alul, -ideal. “According to this system," says Mr. llodgsc", "from an eternal, infinite and immaterial Adi Buddha
proceeled divinely and not generatively, fivo losser Buddha, who **Animbic Researches, Vol. XX, p. 48;. t seq. My Minskrit Buddhist LAN turo of Xupal, p. 15.