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CHAPTER X$. who are in the grasp of the shark of seltishness (lit, me and mine I shall rectify the power of cognition, and, by pointing out the true path to those who are in the quest of self, knock down the flag of vanity." This was the third former desire which became * prominont.
"Ah, yos, I had said, for those who are of peaceless mind, who are drowsy, who are covered with the veil of quality, wbo luve a velocity which is uo velocity, who are whirling alandt from this region to another, and from that lo this, who are not retirud from the world, who aro monnted on the wheel of fire, I will unfold' a peaceful and seu e-natisfying religion." This was the fourth former desire that became prominent.
At this inoment the inner apartinents wero madle to appeur distorted and repulsive !y Dharmchari, the Deviputra, through certain Devapatras of the class Nuddha vasakykit. Having malo everything appear in a demordered and inauspicious form, the celestials, from under the sky, thus adressed the Bulbisattva in Gáthás :
They said, “the great cage, sons of goods, bouw that thy eyes are wide open like a full-blown lotus; how can you fuel any pleasure in dwelling on this creinatu grund ?"
Thus aborted by the chief gods. the Budhisattva for a moment cust his cyes on the montes pertraente; he ww. in short, the ladies lying naked ou a creation ground.
He, thu Budhisattva, ost his eyes on the lulies; he looked at them witb attention, (he found) Bome of them bad. Wir dresses in disorder; sowo of them had their troses dishevelled; some of them bad tbeir ortuents scattered about; soino had their tiaras knocked off; some had their chins resting on their shouldore; some had their mouthis distorted; home bad their eyes sturing; some bud saliva flowing down their moullis; some were groaning; Home were laughing; some were talking wildly; some were grinding their teeth ; some bad their faces dian coloured; some bad their beauty disfigured; some bed their
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| 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 |