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OHAPTER VIII.
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the Budbisattva. Many bundreds of thousands of millions of tens of millions of Devaputras and Apsarases came under the sky, and showered flowers, and played divine murio,
Thus did king S'addhodana, amidst a mighty host of kings, with royal magnificence and kingly majesty, take the Prince to the temple, and enter it. Now, when the Bodhisattva ret his right foot on the floor of that temple, all the incrt images of the Devas, such as Siva, Skanda, Nárávaụa, Kuvera, Chandra, Súrya, Vais'ravaņa, Sakra, Bralımá, and the guardians of the quarters, rose from their respective places, and fell at the feet of the Bodhisattva. Thereupon, men and gods by hundreds of thousands burst into derisive laughter, and covered their faces with their clothes. The whole of Kapila vastu shook in six different ways. Celestial fowers fell in showers. Thousands of clarions resounded without a cause. And the gouls whose images were in the temple made manifest their respective shapes, and recited these Gátlás:
“Never does the great mountain Mern, the king of mountains, salute a mustard seed ; nor does the great ocean, the abode of the king of Náyas, salute the footprint of a cow. The sun, tho moon and other louninaries, never salute fireflies. How can then the great master of merit, one born in the race of knowledge and virtue, salute the Devas? (1)
"Even as the mustard serd, or water in the footprint of a cow, or fireflies, so are the gods (compared to him). Mou and gods of the threo thousand regions, all those on the earth who claim greatness, like the Moru, the ocean, the son, or the inoon, obtain every desirable object and salvation by praying to him who is self-born and the noblest." (2)
Now, Blikshus, on the entrance of the Bodhisattva into the temple thirty-two hundreds of thousands of Devaputras bad their mind Jirected to the sequenceless perfect Sambodhi. This, Bhikshus, is the reason, this the result of tbe indifferent Bodhisattva entering the temple.*
| SR No. | 011126 |
| Book Title | Lalit Vistara |
| 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 |