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They bowed their heads to hide their eclipsed glory. The old man (Asita), beholding him, rejoiced, His incalculable top unseen) excellences and endowments, The white hair, unknown among the Devas, (A sign) that he would reach the condition of a Buddha and conquer
all the hosts of Mara,(Seeing these) he sighed in astonishment at the very perfect (true) excel
lences (virtues, adornments), Which were a sign that he would bring down and destroy the entice
ments of the senses, And that the renowned (precious) Lion had come into the world, Who would destroy (curse) the pollutions of birth and death. Throughout the three worlds the fire of the three impurities (rages), From the act of thought springs up the pollution of the poisons, The rain of the law falling on the chiliocosm, As the water of life (amrita), destroys the fire of the senses; Armed with the cuirass of love, beholding (These sorrows) the workings (aroma) of pity (arises), And with his pliant, sweet voice of Brahma, He instructs fully the three thousand worlds; His mouth resounds the news of the great law as a drum; It is he who is able to destroy the teaching (sútras) of the heretical
schools, And the complications (bands) of all evil practices, His teaching, not being heard without avail, Shall mightily prevail for the reformation of the age, Like the shadow of a mighty tree, His powerful teaching shall overshadow the world; His wisdom able to survey the condition of all men, His knowledge by its brightness able to scatter all darkness, The only illustrious benefactor of Devas, The only source of purity and truth, Able to empty (the way of) wickedness and profit the way of heaven, The faultless treasure found amongst men. Then the assembled Devas, showering down flowers, Worshipped and turned round him to the right, After which, felicitating Buddha and the land of his birth, Ascending into the air, they returned to heaven."
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END OF KIQUEN II.
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