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TALITA-YISTABA..
The tranquil Devnputras of auspicious homes and persons, touched hy the divine light, "the dispeller of the ignorance and forgetfulness regarding formaer Buddhas and their congregations,". and impelled by the verses, spraug up from their meditations, and were absorbed in the thought of a numberless impiensity of Buddhas in reflecting on the great Buddha, -of their places of advent, thuir meritorious career, their congregations, as also their moral ordinances.
Abunt the end of that night Isvara, Mabesvara, Nanda, Sunanda, Prasanta, Mahita, Prasánta-vinitesvara, und several other Devaputras of anspicious homes and exalted dignity, proceeded towarus Jetavana, refulgent with the holy flame, decorating it by their surpassing beauty. There, approaching Blagaván, they made hum ubeisance, laying their heads at his feet; then sitting apart, allrussel binn thus: “There exists, Tord, an amplifier treatise on religion, the noblest of Sútras, 50 called the Lalita-Vistara. It expounds the source of Bodhisattva blessings; discloses the liglat of. Tushita, the consultation, alvont, career, birth place, and the greatness of the birth-place of Buildha; it narrates the special excellencies of his boyhuo; his proficiency in all worldly occupations-in writing, arithmetic, and nurnoration, in mechanical arts, in the practice of the word, bow and arrow, and in all sorts of gymnastics: it unfolds his conjugal enjoyments; recites the method of acquiring the final and im notable reward of all Bodhisattva discipline; displnys the career of Tathagatas triumphuing ver the legions of Mára, and his might and majesty in all their rigtiteen declensions ; points out the heresies of the Buddha religion, and, in short, constitutes the whole of what was imparted by former venerable and alsolute Tathagata: Buddhas, such as l'adnwttara and others.s6 Thou, O Lord, relate the same unto us." ...Bhagaván, for the good and gratification de the many, in memory to mankind, for the prosperity of all worldly actions, for the satisfaction of men und rods, and the mortification of boretica
