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" After torrying inimical desires and the cannibala x pain, I hig, blant countless being *in the sky of peace, in decaj lepothess, and mor.** tality." (8)
on huaring this, Cbbandaka wept bitterly, and then asked,"
"Is this or unalterable resolve ?" ... The Boddhisattva replied, “ Listen to me, Chhandaka, for the
emancipation of beings, for their welfare, my resolve is fixed, inalterable, changeless, firm, and as immovable as the noble Meru mountain.”
Chbandaka enquired, “Lord, what may be your resolution 5"
The Boddhisattva replied: "Were the adamantinė thunderult, the battle-ase, the iron club, arrows and stones to fall in showers, were the lightning to lose its brightness, iron to melt into a finid, were the crest of the mountain burning aglow to fall on my head, still the desire for home would not reyive in me."
At this moment the immortals, assembled in the sky, cast showers of Quwurs, and raised the joyous cry, “Glory be to the Lori, the supreme owner of intelligence, who grants security to the world i Nothing can tinge the mind of the noble being, no more than can darkness, clust or meteors stain the sky; it can no mori: imbibe a desire for worldly pleasures than the newblown lotus the clear water."
Now, Bhikshus, the Devaputras Sántamati and Lalitavyúha, la having heard the firm resolve of the Bodhisattva, put to sleep the whole of the men, women, bers and girls of Kapilavastu, and suppressed every sorad.
Now, Bhikshus, the Bodhisattva, perceiving that the inhabitants sf the town were all asleep, that midnight had arrived, and that the lord of the stellar heaved was in the constellation. Pusliya, is knowing, too, that tlie time for departure had arrived, thus addressed Chhandaka," Grieve not, Chbanduka ; bring me Kanthaku duly caparisoned, uud tarry not.”
No sooner was this speech delivered, thau the four guardians of the quarters heard' it, and forthsith they retired to their
