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. her person, and then in a moment returned back to their celestiak abodes.(11)
Now, the four guardians from the four quarters, Sakra, Suváina as also Nirriti, the Devas, Kumbhandas, Rákshasas, Asuras, Mahoragas, and Kinnaras exclaimed (12)
" Proceeding before the noblest of beings, the greatest of men, protect his car. While on earth commit no fault even in your mind, por injure any human being.(13)
“Armed with sworis, hows, arrows, spears and falchions, and abiding under the sky, do ye all with all your attendants, watch the nolle mansion in which dwells Máyádevi.(14)
ayadevi.(4) "Knowing that the time of descent has arrived, do ye, sons of Devas, with cheerful hearts, proceed to the mansion of Máyá, and, holdirg in your hands flowers and unguents, salute her with the ten fingers of your folded hands.(15)
“ Descend, descend, thou pure being, lord of mankind. This day is the proper time. O lion of disputants, feeling meres aud compa-sion for all created beings, now descend to bestow the gift of religion."(16)
Now, Blikslus, at the time of Bodhisattva's descent, many hudreds of thousands of Bodhisattvas, all linked together by muity of caste, and dwellers of Tushita, proceeded from the cont towards the Bodhisattva for his adoration. Along with them came Devas of the four Chaturmalárájika class, eighty-four thousand Apsarases, and hundreds of thousands of Thirty-three, of Yamas, of Tushitas, of Nirmaņaratis, of Paraviruntavas'avartis, with eighty-four thousand Apsarases resounding their clarions.
Now the Bodhisattva, seating himself, in the presence of all the gods, on the most virtuous throne of S'rigarbha, in the great tower, surrounded and followed by Bodbisattvas, Devas, Nágas and Yaksas withont number, issued forth from the abode of Tushita Whon proceeding on, he caused a light to issue forth from ble person. By that most extensively spread, far-expanding, unperplexed, glorious light, thenscending all other light, these three