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LALITA-VISTARA.
« The distinction of the force of the eightfold path, and capacity were the words, the perception of the evanescent character of pain and disease, and the knowledge of there being no (inunortall soul were the words, the pain of misfortune was the word, which issued forth in music. (6)
"Dispassion was the word, discrimination was the word, knowledge of decay was the word, absence of a (first) Creation was the woril, non-destruction and non-habitation vere the word's, nihilation (Nirvana) was the word-which issued forth in music. (7)
"These and such like words in music issued forth through the influence of the word Sambodhi; on hearing which all beings were affectionately taught to incite the mobile being in favour of knowledge." (S)
I'bus, Bhiksbus, were the eighty-four thousand damsels purified lay the Builhisattva dwelling in his zenana. Lunumerable were the dreds of thousands of Devas, who happened to be there, why benefitted thereby in the knowledge of the sequencelers Bodhi.
Now set the time of the Bodhisattva's renunciation of his home, a Deva otra of the region of Tushitakáyika, named Hrideva, who had acquired the thorough sequenceless Bodhi, at about the close of night, approached, with a retinue of 82,000 Devaputras, the place where the Bodhisattva resided, and from under the sky addressed him these Gátlás :
"O lion among nen! thou hast shown to the world thy glorious descent, thy birth, and thy career in the inner apartincuty, in which thou hast followed precedents. (1)
“Thou last purified many in the world of humanity, having thyself acquired the true religion; this day is the time for thy departare; pray reflect on it. (2)
“The nanncled cannot effect ransom, nor can the blind point out the right path; the unmanacled can emancipate the fettered, and he who has oyes can point out the right path to the blind. (8)
