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LALITA-VISTARA Brabrná, lord of the earth, and his suite of Brahmakáyib Devaputras placked out the tower in which the mother of Bodhi sattva bad dwelt during her pregnancy, and carried it away to Brahmaloka for the purpose of erecting a chaitya on it, and worshipping it.
No Budhisattva should be received by any human being, therefore way the Bodhisattva first received by the Devas.
Immediately after his birth the Bodhisattva alighted on the carth; and at that time, piercing through the earth, a noble lotus appeared for the newly-born Mobásattva Bodhisattva. The two Nága kings, Nanda and Upananda, remaining in semideveloped form ander the sky, bathed the Bodhisattvaly pouring two strains of water, one hut and the other cold. S'akra, Brahmá, the guardians of regions, and the Devaputras by hundreds of thou. sands, who had come there, bathed the new-born Bodhisattva with scented water and well-blowu towers, and sprinkled the samo about him. Two chámaras, and a jowolled umbrella became ranifest in the sky. The Bodhisattva, seated on the noble lotus, behold the four quarters; belcbcl it with the siglat of a lion-with the sight of a Mahápurnsba.
Al dat time furtler birth being precluded by the maturation of the fruit of his former good works, the Bodhisattva obtained a transcendental sight, through which he beheld to the utmost the three thousand great thousand regions, along with all their towns, market towns, villages, provinces, kingdoms, and capitals, tugether with all the gols and human beings dwelling there. He perceivel, too, the mind and habits of all created beings. Perceiving them, he looked to ascertain whether there was any person equal to him in good conduct, in meditation, in thorough knowledge, and in the exercise of all virtuous actious; but nowhere in the three thousand great thousand regions did he see any
Now then, the Bodhisattva, dauntless and fearless as a lion, and unagitated, calling to mind and contemplating on the eight objects of retlection, 18 and knowing the mind and habits of all buings, udvaucou sevcu steps towards the east, saying, I shall top
