Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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CHAPTER III,
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tinent nained Jambu, and found all of them tainted, except the S'ákya race, which was devoid of all defect.
4. Suddhodana was the noblest among all the royal personages; he rras of unperial family, and absolutely pure in his body. Jle was rich, thriving, calm, august, good, and virtuous.
5. All other men in the city of Kapila were well-lisposed, and possessed of virtuo. Abounding in gardens and groves and pleasure-grounds, the birthplace was resplendent in the city of Kupila.
6. All the men were of unmasked might, of loty arms, possessed of the nine treasures, and proficient in arzhery. They destroyed not life for their own liviny.
7. The chief favourite of Suddholatut inad obtained pre-cuninence over a thousuud ludies; xbe wits as cielightful its a picture of enchantment, (Máya) and was called by the name of Mayúde ví, the goldess of encliantment.
8. Beautiful as a heavenly daughter, of well-proportioned body and untaintel anil auspicions persun; there was no mortal zor a clestial being who could be satiried ly beholling her.
9. Neither tinged by passion, nor tainted' by fault, she was placid, soft, frank and pleasing in her speich. There was no harshness in her, nog roughness; she was placid and saiz and guilelves.
10. Modest and bashful, virtuous and decorons, either dull por fidgety, unenvions and usintriguing, trickless u benevolent, she was devoted to ber friends.
11. Always attached to religion, avoiding all untruth, abiding in truth, she had her mind and body entirely uber her control. In hor existed but any of the nucm'rous faults which beset womankind on earth.
12. There existed not in the region of the mortals, nor in that of the Gandharvas, nor even in that of the Devas, a lady who could be compared to Máyádeví. Verily, she alone was worthy of becoming the mother of the great sint.
13. For five hundred generations, she had become the inother