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

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________________ 242 LALITA-VISTARA. noblest Bodbi, revered sir, thou shalt have acquired the most highly prized wealth for (the well-being of) living beings. (112) “Call to mind tby former career; neglect not, charioteer of living beings, the disrespectable, the wealthless, the poor, and the afflicted; du collect for them the desiderated wealth. (113) " Then lost always cherished good conduct, for the salvation of perishable regions, and in onler that thou wouldst show the inmortal dior of heaven, for the good of millions of beings. (114) “Call to mind thy former career; closing the doors of the lower regions, o m ar the immortal gato of heaven; accord pilisha thy generous wishes. (115) "Thou hast well cherished forbearance, for the suppression of enmity und anger among the embodied; ferrying the over the ocean of worldliness, establish them in peace, prosperity and diseaselessness. (116) "Call to mind thy former career; noglect not those who are inimical, quarrelsome and ilestructive; establish the creation disposed to injury on the land of forbearance. (117) "The milijout witle which heroisnt was callivated by the was to acquire the ship of virtue, aud, rescuing the world from all ocus (of evil), to establish it on a region devoid of enmity and disease. (115) “ Call to mind thy forner career; the world is deluded by fourfold evil; O leader, do ye promptly save living beings by the might of thy vigour and strength. (119) "Thuu hast undergone the labour of meditation and prayer this was not done for heroisin, but with this resolve,-'I shal place those whose senses are in delusion or in a primitive stat of rudonesh on the right path. (120) "Call to mind thy foriner career; the world is groaning enveloped in a net-work of pain; neglect not; place th people oppressed with pain in the bliss of concentrated medita tion. (121) Informer times, knowledge as well cultivated by the with this resolve that thou wilt bestow on the world envelope

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