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the principles of a Brahmacharya, * -full and completo in ita nature, holy in its inpuirt, pure and inimsonlato in its character; -uuspicious is its bwginning, auspicious its middlo, auspiokout its cod.
Once about the midille watch of night was Bhagaván absorbed in the meditation (sowidhi) called the Ornament of Haddha (Budilhluthíra-uwuhu). While he wils thus Brust in contempla tion forih istare from the crown of his boal, through the interslices of his turbrun, -* ilame of light rallad tho úrvatulthunnpussiivuilyhjnánálokúlufluíra, (the light which dispels the ignorance and forgetfulness regarding former BudThis and their congrey.ations - yhedi). The flame illuminated the residenceu of gola, and this commanded Mubesvara und the rest of an innumerables last of Devaput r19** of auspicious hones; and from it burst forth these didactic vorwe4 (ciátlus) :
"Oyo! embrace the great maga Akyu Siñha, the light of knowledge, tus dispeller of darkness, and the dispenser of blessinys. His plen tour in ilbrilliant aud uldnless; his body is tranqnil; "his mind benignly serene. Bulak to tho support of him who is an ocean of Bearning, the baly and magnanimoue, the lorl of sugen pud iyi, aul the knower of all things who is tbe god of souls, the core of men and gods, the solt. taught (lit. C1**) in religion, and the controller of all. Flima, who hath sublucl to his will the intractable mind, and whose heart owns not the suaren it Mama; who is an enemy to all Chiov. isb propensities, and to whom aren the life of a serpent is sacred;
him, who is elevated and qualifiud for the calmness of lentikude -U ye, approxeb bin will alwoluto faith: he is all-rosplendent in the inestimablo religion, and is the annihilator of gloon. He is perfect in suurality, tranquil in his actions and tonfathomable in bis understanding. He is the prince of physis gians, and thu dispenser of the draught of immortality. He in the hero of disputants, the suppressor of the wickel, Bad the Himid of the truly religious. He is the knower of absolute And the divine smaller to the way of wolration. T h e
