Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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CHAPTER V.
word is obviously a copulative conjunction, and virochamána must mean a flower, but not knowing of any flowers of that name, I baye taken it to mean the red lotus, the most gorgeous flower in India. Virochana is the name of the Calotropis gigantea, the Andersonia rohitaka, and one or two other plants, but they do not bear a sufficiently rich flower to be worthy of name here.
16. Three filthes, p. 81. The three qualities of goodness, foul. ness and darkness which, according to all Indian philosophers, are the sources of evil. To rise above them is the great aim and object of philosophy.'
17. Seven steps, p. 82. Sákya, immediately after his birth, advanced seven stopy forwaril towards each of the four quarters of the globe by way of symbolically subduing the universo. See Chapter VII. Both the Chinese and the Burmese versions give the miracle, but in the latter, the new-born child instead of walking seven steps, jumps "over a distance of seven lengths of a foot." (Bigandet, I, p. 37.)
18. Manda, p. 82. This is an abbreviation of Bouhi_Manda, tho terraco under the banian tree at Buddha-Gayá on which the saint spread sonno kúša grass and, sitting thercon, performed the last groat incditation which disclosed to him the true kuowledge. See Chapter XIX.
19. Thirty-three, p. 84. Another well-known cpithet for the llindu gods.
20. Three thousand great thousands of regions, p. 81. All the regious extant in the universe #ro reckoned at threo thousand, and the qualification "great thousands" appears to be merely a rhetorical flourish. Tho qualification is not uufrequently omitted. See verso 16, p. 87.
21. Three thousand chiefs, p. 87. The, sovereigns of the three thousand regions which constitute the Univorsc!