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..
ownerless, and be appropriates them to the use of his master.
How docs a Chakravarti rájá obtain the most precious general ? In the same way as the wheel and the rest. The general is wise and intelligent, and able to equip an army for action, whenever required by a Chakravarti rájá. Souten
A Chakravartí rájá, having thus acquired the seven jewels, becomes the father of a thousand mighty, valiant and beautiful sons, sunluers of their enemies. He likewise acquires and excroizos sovereign power over the whole of this wide-extended earth to the shore of the ocean, undisputed, and without war
nay even withont arms.
2nd..Should he, however, relinquishing homo, adopt the life of a houseless ascetic, he would become free from all carnai passions--a law-giver--an unrivalled divinity- ruler of men and gods.
About this time many Deraputras appeared in Janibudvípa, and adored lratycka Budilias.
Disperse, oncrable Sirs, for twelve years hence will the Bodhisattva appear incarnale on the earth,
At this time there lived on the Galigula mount, in the great Tuetropolis of Rájagriba, a Pratycka Buddha named Mátauga." On hearing this report, he fell like a clod against a stone, und then rose to the beight of scven palm trecs, when his fiery parts, like metrors, disappeared. His flesh, bones and lumours (bile, &c.) were consuoed by his fiery parts, and the relics which fell on the earth, are to this day called Risbipadání.
Thiere, likewisc, lived abont this time, 0 Bhikshukas, in the Decr-purk (Mriga-dáva) at Kishipattana, in Báráņasí, five hundred Pratyeka Buddhas." On hearing this report, they too ascended to the height of seven palm trccs, where their fiery parts disapreand liko meteors, consuming all their bones, Hesk, and humors, and cast relics on the ground, whence the place is named Rishipattuna. (the town of the sages). Formerly this place was called Mtiga-dáva, from having beon a park where deer grazed unmolested.