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CHAPTER UIT. " He gnw himself seated on a throne on the top of the Sameru mountain, and disciples with folded hands were humbly salating him. Ho saw himself victorious in the midst of battle, aud the immortals in the shy were clieering him with delightful sounds. (31)
"Tliese were the dreams which the Bodhisattva dreamt; they were full of au-icions and charming seeds, and by hearing of thom men and gods were filled with delight. It will not be long before this nuble being will becunia tko god of gods and men." (32)
NOTES.
1. The Rollballene, hariny lera thus rxhorted by the Devaputra revealed this freuen, p. 235. The router versions make no reference to the dram. The Buddi-harita.is, likewise, silent about it. But the Romantic History' amplifies il greatly. According to it the Devapatra Tso-l'ing caused soven reanis to appear to the king. In the first the king biche a great imperial lanner like that of Indra, around which were yatlurei innumerablus crowils of people, who lifting it and holding it , proceed to carry it tlrough Kupilavastu, and finally went froin tho city by the Eastern gate." The pocond made the Princ mount a chariot drawn by grent, el.phants and go ont by the Southern gate. The third sent out the 'Privce mounted on a four-isorse chaisus by the Western gate. The fourth exhibited a discus going out ly the Northru yule. The fifth slowed the Prince striking a drrim with a large pace in the middle of the four great higliways of the city. The sixth polarou the Princo on a bigb tower froua which he scattered jewels to 1 large crowd there assomblod. The seveuth exhibited sia men in the suburbs of the city, wailing and plucking their hair in grief.
The king, upon seeing these, was greatly distressed, and convened a council at night, and another the next morning; bat the Brahman
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