Lalit Vistara

SR No.: 011126
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 292
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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caparisoned and decked with golden ornaments, paraded before him. Eighty thousand chariots mounted with white umbrellas, flags, penuous and networks of bells followed the train of the Bodhisatt. Forty thousand veteran heroes of majestic form, arrayed in invulnerable mail coat and breast-plates, followed the Bodh sattva. Under the sky illimitable and uncountable anillions of millions of Devaputras of the class Kamávacharas followed the train, offering worship to the Bodhisattva with various collections of offerings. The magnificent chariot in which the Bodhisattva repaired had been decorated by Kámávachara Devas with numerous collections of precious articles. Twenty thousand celestial maidens set off with numerous ornaments and holding jewelled threads (ratna-sútra-parigri hitáni) dragged that chariot. Between every two Apsarases there was one human female, and between every two human females there was one Apsaras, but neither did the Apsarases feel the rank smell of the human females, nor did the human females feel bewildered by the beauty of the Apsarases: this was due to the glory of the Bodhisattva.
CHAPTER VII.
Now, Bhikshus, in the noble city called Kapila, five hundred houses had been built by five hundred S'ákyas for the use of the Sarvárt hasiddha Bodhisattva. When the Bodhisattva entered the town, these S'ákyas placed themselves each by the gate of his own house, and with bent body and joined hands thus respectfully exclaimed: "Enter this house, O Sarvárthasiddha! Enter this, O Deva of Devas! Enter this, O pure being! Enter this, O giver of affection and joy! Enter this, O thou of spotless fame! Enter this, O thou universal eye (samanta-chakshuh)! Enter this, O thou unrivalled one! O thou of incomparable merit and vigour, of person marked with auspicious signs, of well ornamented body, enter this house." Having made this offering to the Prince they all shouted in joyous chorus, "Sarvárthasiddha! Sarvártha siddha P"
With a view to gratify the desires of these persons, king Suddhodana placed the Bodhisattva successively in their houses for 18