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CUAPTER vir.
"A son of great beauty has been born unto thee; he is proficient in the Paramitás; he is of great vigour; ho is hallurded with the thirty two signs, and endowed with the power of Náráyaņa. To behold this son, the Sarvárthasiddha, lord of men, is my wish, and therefore have I come. I have no other object. (11)
"Sooth, you are welcome, and I am gratified by your visit; but you cannot see the lacky Prince now, as he is asleep. Well, you have to wait for a while if you wish to see the pure moon, spotless as the fullmoon, surrounded by the host of stars. (12)
“ When the great charioteer, full of the light of the fullmoon, was awake, the king took the child of a boily radiant as fire, muru resplendent than the sun, glorious as the fullmoon, and said, 'O styre, behold the adures of men and guds, lustrous as the finest yold.'
" Asita Lcheld his two excellent and beautiful feet markoel with the disens. (13)
“Risiny then from his seat, anil joining his two hands, he saluted the fect. Versed in the Sastrus, ho, the rolele sage, then took the child on his lanp, and legan to study him. Ite found the child shielled by excellent signs, and powerful :14 Náráyana. Slicking his heul, he, the versed in the Vedas and the Sústras, perceived that there was one of two carver's open to the chill: (11)
“Ile woull citber be a mighty sovereign, emperor of the eartlı, or a Buddha, the nublest of men. (irievedl in body and mind, he slied tears, and heaved deep slghs. The king became uuoitsy to know why should the Brábman shed ters, and said to himself,
I hope this Asita kocs no evil pending on my Sarvárthasiddha. (15)
" (lle then askel) Explain, O sage, why you weop? Do you percive any good or evil?
There is no evil or barnı impending on your Sarvárthusiddha. I grieve much for myself, sire, since I am worn out duid decrepit, and when this youth will attain Buddhahood, and prouob the religiox which will be respected by the world, (16)
« I shull not have the felicity of beholding him. llence it is
