Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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OHAPTER V.
Devas of the class Trayastrifisa, and a hundred thousand each of Yámas, Tushitas, Nirmáņaratis, and Paranirmitavusavartis, sixty thousand Dovas of the class Márakáyikas, who had aduired sufficient merit by good works in former existences, as also sixty-eight thousand Brahmakáyikas. Many hundreds of thousands of Akanishtha Devas also came there. Other Devas from the east, the sonth, the west and the north, caine by hundreds of thousands. Among then those who were most liberal-minded addressed these Gátlás to the yodly assembly.
"Listen, O, ye lords of the intcortuls, to these words. In this twofold world whatever beings there are, renouncing them, and all wealth, desirable objects, and longings, he has given hiimself to the felicity of meditation : let us follow this noble and pure being (1)
"Ilis feet are tied; he is in the womb; he is a mble onc, worthy of adoration, and full of greatness : we should adore hini. He is protected by vitne; he is a suint (rishi); and withont protecting bim in his incarnation the mind cannot be dissatisfied.)
"Let us recito with the music of clarions and other instruments the beauty and the merit:' of the ocean of merit; we shall thereby gladden the heart of all mortals and Devas; and bearing it there will be no disse "isfaction in the mind of the noble Bodhi.(3)
“We shall shower flowers on the king's house, roulent as it is with the aroma issuing from the burning of the finest black agallochum, smelling wbich gods and men, will be happy, elated, and free from decay and disease (1)
“With Mándárava flowers and with. Príjáta flowers, with camphor and superior camphor, asal) with well-blown reil lotus! we shall pour showers on Kapila, for the worship of him who has accomplished all former duties.(5)
"As long as the untainted of three tilths! dwells in the womb, as long as the destroyer of decay and death is not born, so long shall we follow him with atcerful mind; it is our wish that so long we shall perform the worship of the intelligent one (8)
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