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BAUDDHA TRACTS FROM NEPAL.
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to Venga, and being afterwards called by the King' to remove accumulated evils, entered Lalitapur, be propitious to you—I adore him*.
REMARKS.
Besides the peculiar purport of the allusions contained in the preceding verses, they suggest a few general considerations which may be here briefly adverted to.
It is clear that the Bauddha religion, as cultivated in Nepal, is far from being so simple and philosophical a matter as has been sometimes imagined. The objects of worship are far from being limited to a few persons of mortal origin, elevated by superior sanctity to divine honours, but embrace a variety of modifications and degrees more numerous and complicated, than even the ample Pantheon of the Brahmans. A portion of the heavenly host is borrowed, it is true, from the Brahmanical legends, but a sufficient variety is traceable to original sources, both amongst the Swábhávikas and Aiswarikas, and either spontaneously engendered, or created by some of the manifestations of the Ádi Buddha, or Supreme Being. Such are the Bodhisattwas, and the Lokeswaras, and a
The Deva; the Comment says Narendra Deva, a King of Nepal.
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[A translation of the same Tantra, by Mr. Hodgon, appeared in the Journal As. Soc. Bengal, XII, 400-409; but unfortunately it is disfigured by numerous misprints.]
