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LALITA-FETARA He bebeld, likewise, the four guardians of ragions, all attired in armour and mail-coats, armed with swords: bows, arrows; iron clubs, lauces, tridents, beautifully decorated with crowns and crests of jewels, and attended by Rakshas, Rakshasas, Gandharvas, and Niigas saluting bim.
He behold, also, the sun and the moon, the two sons of gods, standing on bis two sides, and Puslıya, the prince of constellations, han arisen.
Seeing that midnight had arrived, the Bodhisattva addressed Chhandaka:
“Tarry not, Chhandaka; bring me the moblo horse daly caparisonel. All my blessings have attained maturity; verily. Day object will this day be complished.”
On hearing this, Chhandaka, with afflicted heart, thus replied. " Whicreto wilt thou proceed, () thon of expandled brow, of eyse rivalling the petals of the lotus; U tu lion among kings, (beautiful as) the fullmoon of autumn, 's the white lily full blown by the poon; thou of a face like the fresh-blown lotus, of refulgoncu like purified goll, or the 1101. or the moon without a mark; radiant as the sacrificial Grelivened by clarified butter; brilliant as the Mani jewel, or the lightning; awe-inspiring like the maidened clephant; and of majestic motion like the cow, the bull, the lion, or the swan >>
The Boillisativa said,
“For that for which I sacriticed my hands, feet, eres, handle some and dear wives, kingdom, wealth, gold, apparel, (1)
"Richly bejewelal elephants, and horses of mighty power and valour, swift as the windd; (or which I cultivated good conduct, la cherished forhearance, an'l assidnon-ly applied myself to vigour, power. meditation, and knowledge, 3)
" Kurirnuinerale milions of eos; for coming into contact with the suspicious and peaceful Bodhi. The time has arrived for my“ redeeming noukind having bodies always subject to de-cny and death." (3)
Chhandaku observed: "I did hear, honoured sir, that imme.
