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CHAPTER XIII.
in the blinding darkness of delusion and error the eye for the 'microscopic vision of many hundred virtdies. (122) . .
“Call to aind thy former career; hestow on the world enveloped in the blinding darkness of delusion and error the superior knowlerlye of excellent refulgrance, and the clear and stainless eye of virtue. (123)
" These and such-like Gáthás issued forth from the sound of the music of the damsels, and thon, hearing thou unde up thy mind to forsake the world, in order that thou mayat bu infused witls devotion, and able to appreciate the mobile and chief wisdom." (121) .
Thus, Blikshus, the Bodhisattva, dwelling in the female apartinents, became clipassionate,--Jimpassionate in hearing the Voice of roligion, by accepting it in his mind. Ilow no P It was because, O Bhiksling, the Builhisattva, for a long time, and cultivated respect for religion, the history of roligiou, and by exertion had become the searcher of religion, the lover of ro. ligion, and the devotco of religion. Il establishcl religion by argument; he was a promulgator of the tra litional religion; the bestower of the unrivalled great religion; the disinterested teacher of religion ; unuiserly in dispensing religion; devoid of the desire of recompense for teaching Cully; possessed of religion and its subsidiaries; a hero in the acquisition of religion; destroyer of irreligion ; & protector of religion; an asylum of religion; a superior asylumu of religion; devoted to religion; the recipient of the jewel of religion; thoroughly practised in forbearance; accomplished in the transcendental kuowledge (prajzápáramita) experienced in the easy means of salvation (upaya-kausalya).
Now, Bhikshus, the Bodhisattva, by the exercise of the great and casy means, showed to the whole of tho dwellers of the zenaua the enviable path of salvation. IIc did this after having showa the dwellers of the zenana the path of salvation lay the practice of great merit; after having followed the career of virtue for the reformation of mankind of former Bodhisattvas of surpassing worldly merit; after having known for a long time the ovile of
| 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 |