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CHAPTER XL.
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“We have travelled over this Aleru mountain, baril as adamant, which has piercicd up high through the atmosphere, and sprend wide in the air like a herd of lep!ants rondings asunder lines of wany branche trees of magnificent size. (1)
“We are able to yo without fail, to the aluulen of the gools, and high in the sky into the lumes of Yakshan and Gandhurvas, and yet, coming wer this lig forest, low and boy whose miraculous power is it that we are rostraneid?" )
Then the forest you that was there thus aldressed a (átha to the sages.
"Know that the son of the S'ák a king burn of the race of kings of kings, replon.lent as the morning , of empluxion bright as the neu-blown lotus, of luct: 1etulitiilile phon), the noblest of men, the itdoru! of Devils, Gandhai vas, Nigendras, and Yukl:19, grate the loneludrel th.sons of workels, hits taken possession of this grove, and is only in mevlitation, and bis majinx coumturits the power oť miraculous furce..
Then the Rishis looked downwards, and lehek the Prince Pauliant in his beauty and glory. Tie idea simck tha thus;
Who can be the scale obe? Is le Vaisr van, the lord of Westalth? or Mám, the Lord of theires? of the king of gro..t werpents? or ludra, the wicker of the thunderbilt or Bura,
me lord of kumlihan dan?' krishại, lle valiaut? or the mioon, son of a god? vr the sun, the thousand rayed? or a universal emperor ?" Then they broke forth in verso
“His beauty is greater than that of Vais'ruva!; js ho Verily, Kuvera manifest? or is he the image of the wielder of the thimmlerbolt? or is he the moon? or the sun? or Káma, god of love? or the image of Rulra? or ot' Krishṇa ? or is the beautiful one, endowed with all auspicious signk, the pnre Buddha ?”
The forest god replied to the siges in verse. “Whatever beauty them way be in Vais'ravana. or in the Thousand-eyed; whatever bauty there may be in the four guardians of regions, or in Brabma, the lord of creation; what. ever resplendence there may be in the planets ---were they ull
