Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA-VISLABA.
"They attain high reward, who, among men and gods, behold the seven stepst7 of the pure being, bosprinkled with aromatic waters by numerous Sakras and Brabmás.(7)
"As long as he lives among men, as long as the destroyer of the pains of lust dwells in the gynac.cum, as long as he does not prococd furth renouncing bis kingdom, so long sball we with cheerfulness follow bim.(8)
“As long as he does not spread the grass on the carth of the (Bodhi) Manda, as long as he does not come in contact with the Bolhi after overpowering Mára, as long as he instructs not tons of thousands of Brálmans after setting the wheel of religion in inotion, so long shall we perform profuse worship of the Sugata (9)
"As long as he does not overcome the three thousand regions by luis Bucklha career, as long as he does not translate anillions over millions of men to im raortalit.y, and the contented does not himself ascend the rou to Nirvana, so luuy none of us shall Borsake the high-minded poble saint."(10)
Now, I.holding the exquisite person and beauty of the Bodisattva the ide: struck the heavenly nymphs of the class called Kámadhatvisvari, " Hur shonld that lady be who will sustain in her this pure and noble being ?" Impelled by curiosity, they took most esquisite flowers, pastiles lamps, essences, garlands, unguents, powdered sandal-wood, and clothes, and, in the fulness of their heart, and in the pos.tion they had aequired by former goo: deeds, at that moment disappeared from the city of the inmortals. They proceeded to the great city of Kapila abounding in gardens ly hundreds of thousands, to the great palace of Dhritaráshton, in the abode of king S'udhodana, where every room was pure and resplendent. There, these ladies with dishevelled dress, enveloped in auspicious and untainted glory, with arms loaded with beautiful ornaments, pointed out with à Onger the sleeping Máyátleví, and then, rising bigh in the sky, rečited the following Gáthás.
Beholding the bewitching beauty t the bodhisattva the Apsarases of the city of the immortals wondered, what sort