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LALITA-VISTARA.
“When thon didst dwell in thy mountain abode as a bear thon didst carry on thy shoulders a manis benumbed with icy cold, and shivering through fear. Living in peace on fruits and roots, thou didst abstain from injuring him through thy forbearance. (31)
"Firm, fixed, immovable, unsbaken was thy vigour. Thou badst acquired Bodhi knowledge by thy fasts and penances, virtues and learning. Thy well-practised purity has become oboilient to thee by the might of thy vigour. Lion among mon, this is the time for the renunciation of thy home. (35).
“Formerly thou wast born on this carth as a noble borse of a golden culonr.49 Thou didst travel througb the air to the island of the cannibals (Rakshasas). Relieving men there from a bun. dred pains thou didst place thein in salvation. Beginning with such works, many boble deeds were accomplished by thy vigour. (36)
“O thon who hast overcome all pain by thy self-control, thou chief aruong meditationists, thou didst overcome the feeble, ficklo mind bent on pleasing worldly objects, by thy morits, for the good of creation. By devotion to meditation do thou make men attached to meditation. (37)
“When formerly thou wast a Rishi immersed in calm meditation, without thyself being a kiny, thon didst instal men in the rank of royalty. By the aid of the tenfold bleskings thou didst place them in the way to Brahma. Thereby lost men, through the ten blessings, attained the honie of Brahıná. (38)
"By thy knowledge of the ten quarters and their intermediaries and that of notion, thou art the knower of the trne Inw; by thy knowledge of the conduct and the language of others and of the nature of the senses, as well as of civility, hamility, and thought, thou art proficient. This is the time, prince, for renunciation. (39)
"In former times, beholding mankind suffering from perverted vision resulting from discase, douth and diverse pains, thy mercy was inoved in favour of the sufferers, and for the guod of
