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CHAPTER VII.
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"Say, what you wish to be done, what we should do, what you desire ? We are here abiding in affection for the advancement of your good. Be of ardent good cheer; grieve not in any way. This day, thou shalt quickly give birth to the noble physician who will be the destroyer of docay and death. (2).
“ These S'alt trees are resplendent with blossoins; these men on thy sides itre waving a hundred thousand chuimaras beld in their hands; and this earth, the result of sixtold modifications, along with the ocean., is shaking, resounding in the sky; and now thou wilt give birth to a son that will be the noblest of mankind. (3).
"Since an auspicious, pure, yoll-coloured light pervades everywhere; since a hundred clarions are delightfully braying in unison in the sky; since a l'indred thousand gods of pure homes and free from passions are bowing clown in chrerfulness, thou wilt surely give birth to the merciful to creation. (1).
"Even S'akra and Brahmá, even tho guanlians and other goils, pleased and gratilied, and stunling by thy sides, are saluting him with their hands. That lion among inen, that lealer pure of actiou, piercing thy side, will issue from thy womb, like a mountain of gold.' (5).
“The two, Sakr and Brahma, with joined hands, received the sage. Hundreds of thousands of fields ynaked like beautiful pearls.2 Perishing beings in all the thre regions becaine happy; there was nu altliction anywheru. ITundreds of thousands of imunortals, scattered flowers from the sky. (6).
« The adamantinc curth, possessel of vigour and might, stood still, when the great preceptor, the destroyer of decay and death, the noblest of physicians, the giver of the best inedicine, standing on his two foet marked with a beautifully coloured lotus and a wheel, advanced seven steps, making most endearip exclamations in a profound voice. (7).
«Placing themselves under the sky the noble Brahms and S'akra, the poble Deva, sprinkled pure, pleasant, fragrant water on the preceptu The king of serpenta sent forth two streams, ono of warm and the other of cold water. Hundreds of thousands of
