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119 she earth with their trunks and feet. (9) Heavenly nympbs with golden zones appeared standing with their hips touching each othor in the gynacæum of the king (10) Semiophide Nága damsels, with various articles of worship, appeared pendant undor the sky. (11) Ton thousand Nága damsels holding peacock's feathers became visible under the sky. (12) Ten thousand well-filled jars appeared going round the great city of Kapilavastu. (18) Ten thousand celestial damsels, carrying vases filled with scented water' on their licauls, became apparent. (14) Ten thousand daughters of Devas appeared standing with parasols, llags and pennons in their hands. (15) Many hundreds of thousands of Apsarases appeared awaiting with concb-shells, clarions, drums, banners, and bells in their handy. (16) The air seemed still, and did not blow. (17) Rivers and currents stood still, and did not flow. (18) The chariots of the sun, and the niovn, and the stars and the celestial constellations stopped their courses. (19) The constellation Pushya became manifest. (20) Mines of jewels became exposed in the house of kiug S'uddhodlana. (21) Fire ceased to burn (22) Jewels appeared pendant under networks over towers, palaces and gateways.? (23) Reprehensible odours were nowhere present. (24) Various agreeable smells seemed to circulate everywhere. (25) The voices of crows, owls, vultures, wolves and jack were no longer audible.8 (26) Agreeable sounds resounded everywhere. (27) The whole of mankind appeared to have retired from labour. (28) Banks and low grounds on earth all became even and level. (29) All roads, crosses, courtyards, highways and market places were covered with flowers so as to be flot like the palm of the hand. (30) All pregnant women gave birth with comtort and ease. (31) The presiding gods and goddesses of Sála forests having made half bodies with leaves appeared saluting them. These were the thirty-two prevalent omens that became apparcnt. .
Now, Máyádeví, peroeiving that the time for the Bodhisattva's birth bad arrived, and impelled by the vigour of the Bodhisattra, repaired, at the first wateh of night, to the king, and addressed him in there Gatbás :
