Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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CHAPTER V.
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thousand great thousands of regions became resplendent. Even in the frontier regions which, from beginning, were enveloped in visible darkness and gloom, where these powerful and majestic sun and moon, which are called the great lords Mahes'a, do not by their light give light, nor by their colour bring out colour, nor by their heat give heat, and they are neither heated nor made manifest-where such beings as are produced cannot see their own extended hands,even there at that time a great and bright light. became manifest, and through its brightness, the people there beheld and recognised each other. They exclaimed, "how has this come to pass? how has this arisen ??
These three thousand great thousands of regions became the scene of eighteen supernatural occurrences of six kinds. There were shaking, great shaking, and complete shaking. There were cracking, great cracking, aud complete cracking. There were motion, great motion, and complete motion. There were confusion, great confusion, and complete confusion. There were running, great running, and complete running. There were roaring, great roaring, and complete roaring. At the end it was depressed, at the middle it was raised; at the middle it was depressed, at the end it was raised. At the eastern side it was.. depressed; at the western side it was depressed. At the eastern side it was raised; at the western side it was raised. At the southern side it was depressed; at the northern side it was raised. At the northern side it was depressed; at the southern side it was raised. At that time pleasing, gratifying, endearing, exciting, delightful, exhilarating, indescribable, charming, inoffensive, unalarming sounds were audible everywhere. No person at that time felt any hatred, or fear, or awe, or stolidity. Again, at that time neither the light of the sun, nor that of the moon, nor that of Brahmá, S'akra and the guardians of the regions, was perceptible. All who were in hell and all creatures in the region of Yama were, at that time, free from all suffering, and full of pleasure. No being was at that time afflicted by disease, or hatred, or delusion, or envy, or vanity, or conceit, or hypocrisy,