Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA VISTARA.
practice of virtue, performing with a scrupulous exactitude all the rules and observances prescribed by the law. The great and glorious Princess Maia is the only person in wbom all these conditions are tor" be found. Moreover, the period of her life shall be at an end ten months and seven days Lenco; she shall be my mother.'"--Bigandet I, p. 26.
15. Púrra Videha, (p. 37). Videha is Mithilá, modern Tirhut, and Púrva Videha must necessarily be the country to the east of the Mahanands, including Dinajpur and Rangpur, or parts of them.
16. Apara Godúniya, (p. 37). I cannot make out this place. M. Foucaux takes it to bo western Gauda, but in my text, the lotter used is d = and not d = 3. . 17. Ulara Kuru, (r. 37). It is the country to the north of the Himalaya, extending as far as the North Pole. As the people had no knowledge of the North Pole, what they meant was the plateau beyond the llimálaya, with some of the barbarous tribes of which they were inore or less acquainted. Perbaps thuy included the hill. tribes also by the term. •
18. Madhyamadesa, (p. 37). Lit. * middle country", the 'Mitzima' of the Burunesc, which is intended to imply the whole tract of India proper, from the Vindhya range to the llimálayan mountains, and from Behar to the Punjab.
19. The Dovaputras discussed, (p. 38). According to the Sanskrit text the discussion took place among the audience, which, failing to arrive at a watisfactory conclusion, ultimately repaired to the Bodhisattva for the solution of their difficulty. In the Burmese the survey of the different ruling dynasties is altogether omitted. In the Chinese version the Bodhisattva, being himself doubtful as to which family to select, consults one of the Devas, Kin-t'hwán by name, who for many years had, "over and over again, gone down to Jambudvipa" and knew all about it. "Devaputra," said he," you have often gone down to Jambudripa ; doubtless, therefore, you know the cities, towns, and villages, and the various lineages of their kings; and in what family Bodhisattva, for his one birth more, ought to be born." The Devaputra then recounts the merits of the several families, and the Bodhisattva rejects them, one by one, for the reasons assigned.
20. Vaidoki dynasty,' (p. 38). Videha is modern Tirhood, and