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Artely, on thy birth thon wast presented to astrologer". Britik mans for examination, and they addressed king soddbodange saying, 'Lord, prosperity will attend tby royal race. The king asked, 'How so?' They roplied, “This prince of a hundved kuspicious marks has taken birth as your son ; he is full of the splendour of virtuo. He will be a universal sovereign, the lord of the four continents, and master of the seven trensures. Should be, bowever, cast. lis eye on the aflicted world and, forsaking the inner apartments, go forth, he will obtain this cundition of the decayless and deathles Bolhi, and so the mankind with the water of religiou.* But, listen, sir, to my wishes and desires."
The Bodhisattvå asked, "What are they?"
He replicu, "Lord, people undergo divers kodu oot lasts and austerities, putting on skills on their bly, matted hair on their crosyns, and rags and bark for their apparel; they allow their nails and hair and beard to grow my in different styles. they torture the tlosh in their body m a variety of ways; they carry on rigorous fasts and an.terities. And why 807 (lu the hope) we shall obtain the wealth of nen an gols. Lud, tun hast already attained that werth. Thou art the master of this woululy, delightful, flourishing, puncefnl kingdom, abounding in found and thickly populated ; these most excellent gardens, rich in various kinds of fruits and overs, resonant with the voice or immumerablo birds, buying tunks ilecorated with blue, red and white fotuses and water-lilies, and resounding with the cry of goose, legcoolan, koels, borons, sárasas, blooming in mangoes, ax'okas, champukas, kuvalakas, sesamums. and saffron, planted along their bauks -- garden: decorated with numerous jewelled arbours, with tlowerbeds formed like dice-boards, with jewolled seats interspersed, with jeweller network-hung above, and alupted for enjoyment in every suasou, repleto with the pleasures of the summer, the rainy wason, the autumn, and the wiuter. These lofty paluces are liko tlw cloud
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