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.
glorified by the appearance in it of a Bolhisati va. (62) It is irreproachable of all caste defects. Thus, sirs, among Devas, among regions, amony Máras, among Brahmás and among Sramána and Brálmaņa populations, is the family endowed with the 64 qualities.
Vencrable sirs, the lady in whose womb the next-coming Bodhisuttva will descend will be endowed with thirty-two noble qualities.
What are the thirty-two qualities which appertain to the lady in wbose womb the cit coming Bodhisattva will descend ?
She should be (1) wel kauwn, @) lovely, (3) free from defert, (4) of goud birth, (b) of good lincage, 6) of great beanty, (7) of yoorl name, () of good largth and breadth, (9) childless, (10) good bchavioni, (11) charitable, (1:2) of similing faco, (13) clever, H (11) Crank, (19) gentle, (16) proficient, (17) well-inforaeci, (19) learned, (199) mintriguing, (20) dcccitless, (21) irascible, (22) unenvious, (3 oretons, (?!) steady, (25) unw.vering, (26) unscurrilous, (27) full of the aroma of patience, (28) modest, (29) free from prisiou, cnvy and folly, (530) inheriting no defoed from the mother's side, (31) faithfid to her marriage vow, and (3:2) wril-endowed with noble qualities in every part of her persun. )! is into the Tomb of such a lady that the next. coming Bodhisattva will descend. These, vencrable sirs, are the thirty-two qualities with which the lady should be endowel, in whese wound the west-coming Bodhisattva shall descend. Nur, venzrable sies, does the Bodhisattva deseund into his mother's womb, during the fortnight of the wane; it is on the 15th of the waxing not, when the moon full, and in conjunction with the constellation Pashya, that the next-coming Bodhisattva will enter the womb of his purilie wollcr.
The Bodhisattvas and Devaputras, having thus heard of the purity of the race and of the mother of the Builloisattva, became thoughtful as to which could be the only race so cndowed which
. The footnote on igo 27 of my edition of the Sanskrit text is wrong.