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LALITA-VISTARA.
niyuta, niyutani, ka kara, vimbara, akshobhya and beyond thena exceeds my power. (1)
“But buhold, O Síkyas, he has alone, by a single effort, given us the reckoning of all the atoms in the three thousaur regions, of grasa, of herbs and of drops in water. What more wonderful can be effected by the five hundred (S'ákyas) ?" (2)
Now gods and men by hundreds of thousands raised shouts of cheers and laughter by hundreds of thousands. Suine Devazutras, coming under the sky, recited this Gáthá:
“W batever knowledge has been acquired by the mind of the whole of the animated creation of the three orders, has been derogaled, for has not all knowledge of calculation been stored in one being who knows everything?"
Thus, Blikslans, were all the S'ák ya youths discomfitted, and thus lid the Bodhisattva excel them all.
Subsequently in leaping, jumping, and running the Bochisattva excelled all. Thereupon the Devaputras, coming under the sky, rected the following (atbás :
" By frsts, austerity and restrictions ; by mercy, control of the jussions, and benevolence practised for ten million kalpas; by making light, his body and mind, he has become the leader. Listen to his excellence's. (1)
"Do ye bohol in this being, now abiding as a houreholder, the noblest of beings. Ile can travel over all the ten quarters of the globe in i inomunt. He has svorshipped with gold and jencls Jinas without number, and in regions without limit. (2)
“You cannot kurw his advent and his departure, which proceed from his miraculous powers. What is there in this earth that cannot be performed by him, or which exalt him not in merit?" (3)
Tons did the Bodhisattva excel all.
Thun the S'ákyas sail, “Let the Prince uow excel in wrestling. He should bu oxamined about it."81
The Bodhisattru was then standing aside. All the five bundred S'ákya youths at once rushed forward to wrestle with lim.
