Book Title: Lalit Vistara
Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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________________ (101) CHAEFER XII. 241 receptacle, Ihátváyatand), will, and ignorance; materials explain the origin of existence; they do not oubserve the noblest end. (102) “Letters are produced through the instrumentality of the larynx and the lips acting on the palate and the tongue; hut not a letter can be found 101 the larynx, nor in the palato. (103) "Speech proceeds from a union of cause under thu influence of the mind and the intellect; but both the inind and the spocola are invisible in form, and can be grasped neither interually uor externally. (101) "A wise man perceivos the production and disappearauce of speech, as also the sound and pitch of tho voice, and that they exist only for a muinent; thus are all amechos comparable to an echo. (195) “Even as by the threefold instrumentality of cord, wood, and manual exertion innsie is produced in the túns, viná and other sweet-sounding instruments, (106) “and a wise man, enquiring everywhore on this side and that side tu kuow whence it comes and wheroto it gous, fails to ascertain the Cillise vf the appearance and disappearance of a sound, (107) "so do all products of redun proceed from instrumental and material causes, and the Yogi, conscient of the truth, kunws all residna to be vvid and perisbable. (108) “The Skandbas, space, and materials are void, both essentially and apparently; properly understood, they have no sulistratum, and are of the same nature as ether. (109) "This character of attributes was understood loy theo on thy seeing the Buddbu) Dipankara ; baving mierstoord it for thysell, do ye explain it to soon and gods. 4110) “The creation is being burnt by discordant and falily-assumed wrath and enmity; 0, do ye shower the nectariservus raiu of cool water from thy cloud of mercy! (111) “For obtaining it thou hast bestowed benevolonces on pændits for innumerable millions of kalpas ; aile having obtaiued it, the do ye explain tion is being burde slower the 31

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