Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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CHAPTER 11.
"Rifect, intelligent, on the great and far-famed racony Bubly descendol, abiding anong wbou thou shalt reveal the duties of Bhodhisattva.
"O thou ol' immaculate mtelleet, wligever in Jambulvipa," it behoves jewels to alile, star wer ve there the inestimable juwel."
Thus did these and many such verses, in mollittuong numbers, beseech the kindl-bearted. "the time is come, tarry thou
not."
NOTES
T orral convention.-t rekrully ladies that, in obedi. **** Is Diction of Sil: Sin with a view to de 1... mive it all lexual as the true Lw in opposition to miseractions who threatened to try the iden.
ity of the faith, the Buddhist hay, at four to rent times, met in council, and complet 1..abone of their religion. The first council was held under the 1901 pion: Ajatustru, king of Naguil, immediately after the death si Sáky, B.4.543; the mr-cond, a ciday after, ander Killuke; the third, under Asoka, in the year 2:47 B. C.; and the fourth, alar Kanilka, king of Kash bir, 1. C. 1-13 It is ficult to formine with precision which is the convocation line mount, though the first is the one wst likely to lic thus notired. For furtineretails egarding the convocations, the
quiring reader is referred to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bungiel,' Vol. VI, pp. 50l et sey. Both the dates and the number of the convocations have lately been questioned hy conipetrut scholars.
2. Eighty-four thousand harmoniously resounding hymne... It is believed that the instructions imparted by Sakya were comprised in cigiity-two thousand verroa- or rather divisivris or distinct topics of discourso, to which were added two thousand more hy his disciple and cousin A'nanda, at the time of the first convocation, when he exFounded the Dharna ; and these together constituto the Buddha, acriptures. But it is doubtful if there be any other ground for the