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LALITA: PISTARAI like 'anchorites ? we should go with exhilarating' maidens in onr company.' (2)
"At midday the pure being, the Buddha, surrounded by fifty boys and a retinue of servants, without informing either lis father or his mother, issued forth, and repaired to an agricultural village. (3)
"In that agricultural village of the king there existed a Janıbu tree with numerous large branches. Seeing the village and knowing the trouble of its people, the Prince said, 'alas ! that the agriculturists have to undergo so much labour in their profeg. sion !' (4)
“Then going under the shadow of the Jambu tree, in a humble spirit, he collceted some grass and spread it to form a smooth eusbion; and, seated therton he, the Bodhisattva, perforined in ealm repose the four meditations. (5)
“ five sages, travelling through the air, came over the place but could not pass over the Jambu tree. Sarprised at this, with bumiled pride they looked about. (6)
“We travel with irrepressible velocity over the Merni, the noblest of mountains, and across the Chakravála mountains but We have not been able to pass over that Jambu tree. What can be the cause of this? There must be something here to-day !' (7)
" Descending on the earth, they beheld under the Jambu tree the S'ákya prince, resplendent as the gold from the Jambu river, Bcated on a couch and engaged in meditation. (8)
“Wonder-struck, they touched their heads with their ten nails brought together with joined bands; they fell on his feet, and saluted the noble asylum of mercy. With ease wilt thou enliven with nectar all fallen mortals.' (9)
"The sun travelled on, but the tree did not withdraw its shadow, refreshing as that of the lotus leaf, from the Sugata, but beld it on. Devas by thousands, standing with joined hands, did homage to the feet of the firmly resolved one. (10)."
