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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LALITA VISTARA.
research. I of course allude to Mr. Laidlay's edition of the " Pilgrimage of Fa Hian," which is by far the most valuable work that has yet been published on the subject. I have made no hesitation in using it, together with Hodgson's " Illustrations" and Burnouf's Tiistvire du Buldhisme, as my standard references.
37. The three Precious ones : Triratna ; Sans.---This phrase evi. dently alludes to Salya Siîba, his son Ráhula and cousin Ananda. The trial, Buridhu, Dharma and Sanghr, is likewise denoininated the triratna; but the allusion to a family and the conterts of the book listinctly is.dicates tho mense in wbicb the expression is used herc.
38. Mandur flowers-a Dower comulon iu the gardens of Indra's beaven.
39. Conrerseil with the Bhikshukas.--Although I do not think inyself at liberty to alter any part of the Sunskrit text against the concurrent testugony uf tive different Hus., I am of opinjou that the subjoined sentence. which follows the worl Bhikshukas in the Sanskrit origmal, lelongs to the preceding paragraph, but has been dislocated by some blundering scribe ; and that the caprosjon "2 before" (púrodent) is an interpolation, introduced afterwards to presers consistency. "The sentence alluled to, runs thus:
"Thus, () Bhikshukas, when the night was over, the Devaputras of Hains tonements and persons, namely, lávara, Maleávara, Nanda, Sunanela, Chandana, Mahita, Prasanta, Vinitesvara and others, disa appeared as before."
40 /'$-- not named in the prose portion, p. 4. 41. Praśntarhilta, ---changed to l'rasantaviniteśvara in the proso
portion.
42. Súnta. --not named in the prose portion.