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CHAPTER XV.
"It is a composition of bones, "teeth, hair, and fibres; it is enoaned in an envelope of skin, and covered with hair; withia there are multeen, liver, rerum, saliva ; it is weak; it is bound by marrow, and tendons, like a musical) instrument, and alisped with flesh; it is environed by diverse disvases; it has griefs, and is opprossed by tunger and tbirst. (2)
"It is, to living beings, a hell with many portals, an abode of death and decay. Who is the sensible person, who, beholding all this, can call his body, the domain of enemies, his own?" (8)
Thus did the Bodhisattva reflect on the boily while abiding in his body. at the
The Devaputras, Assembled under the sky, thus addressed Dharmachárí, a Davaputra.
“Ilow is it, sir, that the Bolbisattva is still tarrying? He is looking at the female apurtments, he is examining them, and exciting the mind; he is repeatedly closing his eyes. Is it, that this being, profound as the ocean, is unable to fathon the depth; or is his mind not able to renounce his companions? Loet bim not, invoked by the pare ones, forget his foriner resolvo."
Dharmachari eplied: "Say not so; knowing that, even before this (sight), he bad, by the practice of Bodhi, become free. For one who has, by the renunciation of work, already arrived at the last stage, how doubt you that he will be free !
Now, Bhikshus, thu Bodhisattva, with firin rewolve, mmfaltering mind, and determined understanding, descended from the bed stead, with ease proceeded to the Palace of Music, and, stand ing, facing the east, lowered the jewelled lattice with his righ hand." Thou entoring the chamber, he folded bis bands as to make all his ten pails ineet ; ho invited all the Buddba of former tilnes, and, salating them, cast a louk towards the sky He there bebeld the sovereign of the immortals, he of a thousan eyes, surrounded by a hundred thousand Devas, bolding Bowers incenses, aldmatics, flower-garlands, ungnouts, powders," dresses parasols, dags, pennons, earrings, jewelled necklaces, and strings kad, with bended body, salutiog lim.
