Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA VISTARA..
in Malwa. The Chinese version gives the game Mávanti, apparéntly a corruption of Avanti.
25. Mathurá, (p. 39). The city is celebrated in the Hindu annals as the capital of king Kañía, the Herod of India, who immolated all the infants which were born on the birthday of Krishna, and was ultimately killed by Krishņa.
26. Hastinúpura, (p. 39). The account of the illegitimate birth of the Pandavas shows clearly that the story, if not the Mahábhárata itself, was current froin long before the date of the Lalita-Vistara. In the Chinese version Hastinapura is translated into the city of the white olephant." According to the Hindus the city owes its name to king lastin, who built it.
27. Mithili, (p. 46). Sumitra lived at a very remote period of antiquity. His uame is bere not intonded to be that of a king living at the time of Buddba's birth.
28. Sirteen great dynasties, (p. 40). None of the texts supplies tho names of all the sixteen dynasties. The Sanskrit version has eight nunes, whicb are repeated in the Tibetan. The Chinese adda thoruto three, viz., those of Káší, Pindu and Sákya. In the Sanskrit the last is noticed separately. The Burmose is entirely silent about the rejectel families.
29. Sirty:four qualitics, (p. 40). My MSS. give details of only 62 qualitios. The Chinese version limits them to sixty.
30. Clerer (p. 42). The Sunskrit is Pradakshina.grahini, which means "she who accepts that which has been circumambulated," 1. e. the choicest of gifts, or knowledge, and therefore clever. I am, how. ever, not at all satisfied with the rendering. It might mean " she had selected her own husband" in svayas vará.