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TALITA-VKSTARA. branches spread out in perfeet. regularity, its leaves variegated 28 the plumage of a poucock's bond, soft as kalinda cloth, the scent of its flowers of 1:16:3t exquisite orlonr. Delightud at the sight, Maya rested a while to admire it, and gradually approached under the shade of the tree; then that trou, by the myrterious power of Bodhisattva, bent down its branches, and, forth with, the queen with her right hand took lid of one just as in the air, there appears a beautifully, tinted rainbow stretching athwart leaven; so did she take hold of that curving mach of the Plasa tree and look up into heaven's expanse. Thu., slanting on the ground, and holding the branch 28 we base describul, with ciaspod hrunds ani bended knce, the heavenly won.cn who sterown.led the yucon, addressed her thus:
Thuqun now brings forth the child, Able to disido the whoel of life and death In heaver and outlı, Do teacher Cau oquai nim; Able to deler luth Duvas And mentineruly kund of sorrow, La notis 1,100 br dares , Wuat top her!'
« At this time, Bwin sativa perceiving his mother, Mayá, standing thus with the loanch in ner hand, then with conscious mind aroso from its scan and was born.' (Beal, p. 42 33.)
12. Clothes of Abu: colours suspended from it, p. 123. This mode of decorating tres was at one time very common, and all Iruddhist sculptures represent the Bodhi truo decorated with clothes banging from its brainches.
Nur wis the practice coutined to the Budhists only. It seems to be extensively widle-spread and of great antiquity. The object is not always the name. In some cases it is, and was, intended to honour the tice itself as an old or beautiful or sacred one, as in the case of the plane true which Xerxes saw in Lydia in his march to Crecco and wis or pleased with it that, according to Herodotus, be caused volden robes and ornainents to be hung over it. In others it in to honour the spirits of departed saints that clothes are put ou trees, as we find on trees overhanging tho graves of Muvammadan saints in India and Arabia. In others evil spirits, hobgoblins, and
