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LALITA-VISTARA.
CHAPTER IX. ORNAMENTATION.
Request of Sakys to present ornaments. Ornanients prepared. Effect of ornament put on the Irines. Addings of a sylvan goddess on the worthlessnon of vrnun uts for the Prince.
Now, Bhikshus, Udayana, a Bráhman, father of Udáyi,l and the family priest of the king, came along with five hundred Brahmaņas when the Chitrá constellation had risen just after the Hasta constellation, and thus addressed him: "May it please your majesty that the Prince may have some ornaments made for hiin."
The king said, “Be it so. Let a good number of ornaments be prepared."
Thereupon five hundred ornaments were prepared under orders of king Sudelhodana, by live hundred S'ákyns. They included ornaments for the hands, ornaments for the feet, ornaments for the head, ornaments for the neck, seal rings, earrings, armlets, waist-chains, golden threads, nets mounted with bells, nuts mounted with jowels, jewel-inounted shoos, necklaces of various kinds of jewels, bracelets, and delightful crowns. Having prepared these, the S'ákyas brought them to the S'ákya king when the Pushya constellation was on the ascendant, and thus addressed him: “May your majesty decorate the Prince with these ornaments."
The king said, “Let the Prince bu oruamented and honoured by you. 1, tvo, haye got all ornaments prepared for him.”
They replied: "It would do us great honour, if the Prince would wear our ornaments for seven days and seven nights."
Now, the night having expired and the sun baving risen, the Prince had been taken for an airing in the garden named Vimala
