Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA-YISTARA..
has a well-Dorn husland. She is not harsh, nor fickle, nor scurrilous. She is of clear speech. She has the aroma of no passion, envy, ur folly, and is fnll of patience. She bas her sight and mind directed to the guidance of her hands, feet and cyos. She has soft tounder hands and feet, delicate to the touch as the down ou the pool of the torre percratorius ; with eyes pure as the new blowu live lotus, nosc prominent like the fruit of the Flacoarlo int i lo; well-proportionate body; and arms tapering like the bow of Indra. She is well-behaved; of wellproportioned body and wormbors; of l'aultless body. She has lips like the linta l'ruit; is of lovely look and tapering neck; welladurned with ornament»; «f pure iniini; thriving; of clarining appearance, vi vautifully low sbonlders, of well-fitted, wellformed ars; of arched domes; of imdepressed sides; of degre navel pit; rof rounded, largo, smoth an! gluteals; of buils cif adamantine firme; I thizlis tapering like the truuk of the elephant; vi kandy ani feet, like that of the gazello; of eyes the most lovry on caril: of piercing sight. She is beautiful beyond concp10n; lovil the lanty of the isollent of the womankind; a picture of fute (wvby) bearing the name of Máyá ; learned in all the arts; wmtci as a myri irwa the Nandana grun of budes; w ing in the gynecium of the Malicajá oudhelmu. hit me is worthy of bevorning ihe mother of the Bouchiativa. Aj the qualities of rice which the Budhisaitva has wherrel tu, (4 voeren uniy in the Sakya racc.
On this subjet this is said:
1. Tat zu bring anci suge, seated on the lion-throne of Sndbarmá, in the sale of Dhurmoebchaya, and surrounded by liis following of Devas of equal tank withi hinseli and of Bulbisaltvas of great renown, was jnylui,
2. The thought then struck the stator, in wbat fimily, of pure und virtuons meinbers, should the Bodhisattva takr his birth, and when were the mother and the father of pure nature fit for lam?
9. lle surveyed all the Kshatriya royal dynastics in the con