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LALITA-VISTARA.
“Wonderful this is of the Bodhisattva, the leader of men, that he should bave learnt every s'ástra immediately on corning w the school! (1)
"On coming to the school he has learned writings of which I do not kuow aven tbu names. (2)
"I cannot see bis face, nor even his head; how can I teach him who has already acquired every style of writing. (:))
“He is the god of gods, the great god, the ilublest of all gods, the omnipresent. lle is unrivalleil, the chief, the unequalled soul of all in these regions. (1)
“Through his grace I shall thoroughly teach the means of that knowledge which is wortby of all to even those who have already been taught." (5)
Then, Bbikshus, the ten thousand boye along with the Bodhisattva began to learn writing. In the presence of the Bodhisattva the teacher began to teach the boys the alphabet. When they pronounced the lettera, then resound the words -all sacraments are impermanent." On á being pronounced there resounded the welfare of one's own and of others. By the letter i, the fulness of the organs. By the letter i, the carth is full of calamities. By the letters, the world is full of accidents. By the letter in, the lessening of vigour in the world. By the letter ", the sound of the evil of raising probey. By the letter wi, the propriety of the mundane course. By the letter o, the ultimatum ot advice. By the letter an, the sound of peregrination. By the letter iiit, the origin of infallibility. By the letter wh, the sound of transition. By the letterk, the redemption of deserts.. By . the letter kh, the likeness of all religions to the sky. By the letter 9, faith in the sound of religion. By the letter gh, the destruction of the darkness of dense ignorance and delusion. By the letter , the purification of the body. By the lutter ch, the truthfulness of the four Arya paths. By the letter chl, the destruction of fancies and passions. By the letter j, the conquest of decay and cleath. By the letter jh, the overthrow of the fish-bannered chief. By the letter ,, knowledge. By the
