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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CHAPTER X
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CHAPTER X. EDUCATION.
Procession to the school-roon. The or hoolmaster falls overpowered by the sight of the Prince. lle is helped to rise from the ground by a Derajatra, who mitcs Gáthy in praise of tho Prince. The Bodhi4nttvit m iring what hy is to he taught, and untaeg 01 kinds of writing. The recit.titon di' the alphabet.
Then, Blikshus, when the l'rince lad duly grown up,' he was taken to the writing school under a hundred thousand auspicious arrangements. Ile was a companiel and followed by ten thousand loyx. IIe was followed by ten thousand cars loaded with foul of all kinds, and with golil in the forms of ingots and coins." Whenever on the roads, squares, highways and market roads of the town of Kapilavastu, the procession stoppail, or people descended from their cars, then cight hundred thousand clarious resounded in barniony. Girent showers of flowers were rained everywhere. Hundroils of thousands of mailens stood by ourtyards, cloors, gateways, balconies, houses, towers, and palaces with dishevelled ornaments and dresses; or carrying vases of gold set with jewels to purify the roads, they proceeded towards the Bodhisattva. Eight thousand celestial maidens were strowing flowers to behold the Bodhisattva. Devas, Nágas, Yakshas, Gandharvas, Asaras, Garudas, Kinnaras and Maborayas, in semiform shapes, held forth flowers, garlands and olothes from under the sky. All the S'ákyas, led by king S'ulldhodana, proceeded in front of the Bodhisattva. With such a retinuo did the Bodhisattva proceed to the school. Then he entered the school. Now Vis'uá mitra, the school master, feeling the beanty and glory of the Bodhisattva to be insufferable, fell prostrate on the ground. Subhánga, a Dévaputra of the class Tushia takayika, seeing him thom prostrate, held him by the right