Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA-VISTARA. The royal family of the king, born in a Chakravarti dynasty, is." thriving. The city of Kapila, rich in treasuries of jewels, and full of wealth, is all aglow.(18)
Yakshas, Rakshas, Kumbhándas, Guhyakas, Devas and Dána vas with Indra at their head, who are now the guardians of the poble being, will ere long attain salvation (moksha).(19)
For us, who for the enhancement of virtue bepraise thee, O leader, do thou enhance our devotion and respect, so that we may quickly attain the perfect Bodhi, even as thou, noblest of beings, hast donc. (20)
NOTE S.
1. Mangalyn Deras, p. 73. It is doubtful if the word Mangalya can le accepted as a generic noun implying a particular class of Deras. It does not occur under any of the heads given in note 1, p. 65. As a conmmon noun it would mean simply auspicious. But, soeing that there are other classes mentioned in the Lalita-Vistara besides those included in the note, I am disposed to think it means a class. .
2. Silker Turban, p. 73. The Sanskrit text pafta-maula is a compound of patt, meaning "silk” or turban," and maula, "the heal," "a lock of hair on the crown," "braided hair tied round the head like a turban," "a tiara," "a diadem." M. Foucaux renders the Tibetan mersion of the whole passage into " et le Bôdbisattva ayant ôté de dessus sa tête la tiare et le diadème, les mit sur la tête du Bodhisattva Mâitrêya." (p. 51). Translating from the Sanskrit Dr. Lefmann has “Indem nam der Bodhisattva von seinem eigenen haupte tiara und diadom und legte sie auf das haupt des Bodhisattva Maitreya" (p. 33). The rendering in either case is due to the importance attached in Europe to the crown as an emblem of royalty. In India this idea docs not exist ; nowhere is any importance attached to the crown as a necessary token of rank or office. Whereas the giving of turbans is a mark of esteem and trust, and the giving of one's own