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LALITA-VISTARA.
CHAPTER VII
THE BIRTH.
Thirty-two omius. Máyá's requot to go to the Lumliní garden. I'reparatious tor de worturu. The procession. Han ble in thu gardion. The P'lik ha true. The birth. Kocation of the balo by Brithmá. Miracles. The bubu's fith acta. Jil.culous auronnes Bhagavan and Anandu on saith in the Lodhisattv.t. Aloration of Maya by Aprarins. Nows of tho birth carried to the king the king juicings and benefactions. Naming of the Prince. Adoration or dává ly s . A icious hymn. Death of Maya. I'ru. 14ajur ta kipil. Welcome by h Sákyas. (autumní appointe i fostur-diother. Ast's r etine r e to Kazilo --reccptiori there, and podugnostications. Thirty-twn printy in vighty subsidiary murks on the Prince's body. Státhás :bow: Anita vertia hr Devapotras. Curroborative Ciáthás.
Tha', Bikslus, tou wenths having clapsed, and the time for the birt! f the Bodhisattva baving arrived, thirty-two) omens becaine manifest in the garden attuched to the palace of king S'udah.121) 11.1 were the thirty-two omens? (1) All the flower pris there added, but did not blossom. (2) In the tanks ble !ouses, (Nymphea cerulea) pink lotnses, (Nelumbinın speciorum) lilio, (Nymphera esculenta), and white lotuses put forth buds, but did not flower. (3) Flower and fruit trees sprouted from the earth and bloomed, but bore no fruit. (1) Eight trces grew forth and twenty hundreds of thousands of stores of innumerable jewels came up to view. (5) In the gynaceum mines of jewels became exposed. (6) Fountains poured furth scented water, both cold and hot, and redolent of aromatie oils. (7) Young lions came down from the sides of the Hwavat mountain, joyfully walked round the city of Kapila, and sat by its gatos bearing no enmity against any being. (8) Five hundred young elephants of a yellowish white colour came, and, in the presence of king S'uddhodana, soratched
