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LALITA VISTABAS of autumn, like the lofty Kaitás'at mountain, like Vnifayadikan : or like tbo pure court of the gods's tbey are devoid of grief and annoyances; they are set off with covered courtyards, doors, gates, windows, chambers, "pavilions, and turrets covered with net works set with jewelled bells. Such, lord, are the inner apartments; they are resonant with the music of the tunava, padava, vína, flute, sampwara, tódava, charlı, kimpala, bakula, the sweetsounding roridatiga, and the drum,-with dancing, siaging, joyous and charming concerts, with laughter, gestures, plays, and other enticing accomplislıments. And thou, son of a god, art youthful; thon hast neither exceeded juvenescence, ivi art considered yonng; with a soft body, fresh black bair, by no mcany passed the age of enjoyment. Therefore, do thou enjoy, Jike Iudra of the thousand eyes, the lord of the immortals. After that we can retire."
At that time this Gátha was recited :
“O, thou, proficieut in amorous enjoyments, enjoy even as does the lord of the immortals in the region of the three-timesten; thereafter, having attained maturity, we shall commence fasts and penances,"
The Bodhisattva said, “Verily, all these objects of enjoyment, Chhandaks, are transitory, flecting, inconstant, and naturally changing ; passing away with the rapidity of a mountain torrent; trausient as dewdrujos; sorrowful: bollow as an empty fist; weak as the trunk of the plautain tree; painful like unwholesome food; like the autun clond now produced and now gone; transient as the lightping in the sky; producing ultimate mischief like poisonous food; pain-producing as the ináru-creeper : [worthless] as the scrilblings of persons of infantile sense; comparable to bubbles on water; naturally quickly changing; like the illusion of a mirage; arising frou a perversiou of cognizance; comparable to illusions ; proceeding from perverseness of the mind; comparable to dreams; derivable by acceptance through the perversion of vision ; fall of suffering like the sca; exciter of thirst like salt water ; difficult of touch like the head of a serpent ; fit to be avvided by sages like a
