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1? According to Stevenson: the red side of the retti seed. ° Or if we adopt a various reading, mentioned in the commentary, payadiya, we must translate: whose luminous glory was set forth by his thousand rays. 236 KALPA SOTRA. 9. Then she saw a full vase of costly metal’, splendent with fine gold, filled with pure water, excellent, of brilliant beauty, and shining with a bouquet of water lilies. It united many excellencies and all-auspicious marks, and stood on a lotus- (shaped foot), shining with excellent jewels’. It delighted the eyes, glittered and illumined all about ; it was the abode of happy Fortune, free from all faults, fine, splendid, exquisitely beautiful, entwined with a wreath of fragrant flowers of all seasons. (41) 10. Then she saw a lake, called Lotus Lake, adorned with water lilies. Its yellow water was perfumed by lotuses opening in the rays of the morning sun ; it abounded with swarms of aquatic animals, and fed fishes. It was large, and seemed to burn through the wide-spreading, glorious beauty of all kinds of lotuses*. Its shape and beauty were pleasing. The lotuses in it were licked by whole swarms of gay bees and mad drones. Pairs of swans, cranes, Kakravakas, ducks, Indian cranes, and many other lusty birds resorted to its waters, and on the leaves of its lotuses sparkled water-drops like pearls*, It was a sight, pleasing to the heart and the eye. (42) 11. Then she whose face was splendid like the ! The original has rayaya, silver, but as the commentary remarks, this would be in conflict with the epithet which we have put next, but which, in the original, is separated from it by many lines. Unless the author has blundered, which from his vague style seems far from impossible, the word must here have a more indefinite meaning than it usually has. % This passage may also be translated: standing on a lotus filled with pollen, of excellent workmanship. 5 Specialised in the text as kamula, kuvalaya, utpala, tamarasa, and puadarika. * According to the commentary; the textus receptus is, many water-drops. LIVES OF THE GINAS. 237 moon in autumn, saw the milk-ocean, equalling in beauty the breast of Lakshmi, which is white like the mass of moon-beams. Its waters increased in all four directions, and raged with ever-changing and moving, excessively high waves, It presented a splendid and pleasant spectacle as it rushed to and from the shore with its wind-raised, changeable, and moving billows, its tossing waves, and its rolling, splendid, transparent breakers. From it issued camphor-white foam under the lashing (tails) of great porpoises, fishes, whales, and other monsters of the deep’. Its agitated waters were in great uproar, occasioned by the vortex Gang4varta, which the vehemence and force of the great rivers produced; they rose, rushed onwards and backwards, and eddied. (43)
2Its agitated waters were in great uproar, occasioned by the vortex Gang4varta, which the vehemence and force of the great rivers produced; they rose, rushed onwards and backwards, and eddied. (43) 12, Then she saw a celestial abode excelling among the best of its kind, like the lotus (among flowers). It shone like the morning sun’s disk, and was of a dazzling beauty. Its thousand and eight excellent columns (inlaid with) the best gold and heaps of jewels diffused a brilliant light like a heavenly lamp, and the pearls fastened to its curtains glittered. It was hung with brilliant divine garlands, and decorated with pictures of wolves, bulls, horses, men, dolphins, birds, snakes, Kinnaras, deer, Sarabhas, Yaks, Samsaktas?, elephants, shrubs, and plants. There the Gandharvas performed their concerts, and the din of the drums of the gods, * The original has timingila-niruddha-tilitilika. 8 Samsakta, which I do not find mentioned elsewhere, is explained, ‘a kind of beast of prey;’ I think that samsakta may be an adjective specifying the following word, and mean ‘ fighting’ elephants. 238 KALPA SOTRA. imitating the sound of big and large rain-clouds, penetrated the whole inhabited world. It was highly delightful through curling, scented fumes of black aloe, the finest Kundurukka and Turushka, burning frankincense and other perfumes. It (shed) continuous light, was white, of excellent lustre, delighting the best of gods, and affording joy and pleasure. (44) 13. Then she saw an enormous heap of jewels containing Pulaka, Vagra, Indrantla, Sasyaka, Karketana, Lohitéksha, Marakata, Prab4la, Saugandhika, Sphaéika, Hamsagarbha, Avgana, and Xandrak4nta. Its base was on the level of the earth, and it illumined with its jewels even the sphere of the sky. It was high and resembled Mount Meru. (45) 14. And a fire. She saw a fire in vehement motion, fed with much-shining and honey-coloured ghee, smokeless, crackling, and extremely beautiful with its burning flames. The mass of its flames, which rose one above the other, seemed to interpenetrate each other, and the blaze of its flames appeared to bake the firmament in some places. (46) After having seen these fine, beautiful, lovely, handsome dreams, the lotus-eyed queen awoke on her bed while the hair of her body bristled for joy. Every mother of a Tirthakara sees these fourteen dreams in that night in which the famous Arhat enters her womb. (46 b) End of the Third Lecture. When the Kshatriy4mt Trisalé, having seen these fourteen illustrious, great dreams, awoke, she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) rose from her couch, and descended from the footstool. Neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even LIVES OF THE GINAS. 239
3When the Kshatriy4mt Trisalé, having seen these fourteen illustrious, great dreams, awoke, she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) rose from her couch, and descended from the footstool. Neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even LIVES OF THE GINAS. 239 gait like that of the royal swan, she went to the couch of the Kshatriya Siddhartha. There she awakened the Kshatriya Siddhartha, addressing him with kind, pleasing, amiable, tender, illustrious, beautiful, lucky, blest, auspicious, fortunate, heart-going, heart-easing, well-measured, sweet, and soft words. (47) Then the Kshatriy4mi Trisal4, with the permission of king Siddhartha, sat down on a chair of state inlaid with various jewels and precious stones in the form of arabesques; calm and composed, sitting on . an excellent, comfortable chair, she addressed him with kind, pleasing, &c. (see last paragraph), words, and spoke thus: (48) ‘O beloved of the gods, I was just now on my couch (as described in § 32), &e. (see § 5), and awoke after having seen the fourteen dreams; to wit, an elephant, &c. What, to be sure, O my lord, will be the happy result portended by these fourteen illustrious, great dreams?’ (49) When the Kshatriya Siddhartha had heard and perceived this news from the Kshatriyda#t Trisala, he glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) firmly fixed the dreams in his mind, and entered upon considering them; he grasped the meaning of those dreams with his own innate intelligence and intuition which wére preceded by reflection, and addressing the Kshatriy4mt Trisald with kind, pleasing, &c., words, spoke thus: (50) ‘O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious dreams, &c. (see § 9, down to) you will give birth to a lovely, handsome boy, who will be the ensign of our family, the lamp of our family, the crown! of our family, the frontal ornament 1 Vadimsaya (avatamsaka) is here rendered by sekhara. 240 KALPA SOTRA. of our family, the maker of our family’s glory, the sun of our family, the stay of our family, the maker of our family’s joy and fame, the tree of our family, the exalter of our family; (a boy) with tender hands and feet, &c. (see § 9, down to the end). (51) And this boy, after having passed childhood, and, with just ripened intellect, having reached the state of youth, will become a brave, gallant, and valorous king, the lord of the realm, with a large and extensive army and train of waggons. (52) Therefore, O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious, &c., dreams, &c. (see § 9).’ In this way he repeatedly expressed his extreme satisfaction. When the Kshatriyamwt Trisald had heard and perceived this news from king Siddh4rtha, she glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 12, down to) and spoke thus: (53) ‘That is so, O beloved of the gods, &c. (see § 13, down to) as you have pronounced it.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1? According to Stevenson: the red side of the retti seed. ° Or if we adopt a various reading, mentioned in the commentary, payadiya, we must translate: whose luminous glory was set forth by his thousand rays. 236 KALPA SOTRA. 9. Then she saw a full vase of costly metal’, splendent with fine gold, filled with pure water, excellent, of brilliant beauty, and shining with a bouquet of water lilies. It united many excellencies and all-auspicious marks, and stood on a lotus- (shaped foot), shining with excellent jewels’. It delighted the eyes, glittered and illumined all about ; it was the abode of happy Fortune, free from all faults, fine, splendid, exquisitely beautiful, entwined with a wreath of fragrant flowers of all seasons. (41) 10. Then she saw a lake, called Lotus Lake, adorned with water lilies. Its yellow water was perfumed by lotuses opening in the rays of the morning sun ; it abounded with swarms of aquatic animals, and fed fishes. It was large, and seemed to burn through the wide-spreading, glorious beauty of all kinds of lotuses*. Its shape and beauty were pleasing. The lotuses in it were licked by whole swarms of gay bees and mad drones. Pairs of swans, cranes, Kakravakas, ducks, Indian cranes, and many other lusty birds resorted to its waters, and on the leaves of its lotuses sparkled water-drops like pearls*, It was a sight, pleasing to the heart and the eye. (42) 11. Then she whose face was splendid like the ! The original has rayaya, silver, but as the commentary remarks, this would be in conflict with the epithet which we have put next, but which, in the original, is separated from it by many lines. Unless the author has blundered, which from his vague style seems far from impossible, the word must here have a more indefinite meaning than it usually has. % This passage may also be translated: standing on a lotus filled with pollen, of excellent workmanship. 5 Specialised in the text as kamula, kuvalaya, utpala, tamarasa, and puadarika. * According to the commentary; the textus receptus is, many water-drops. LIVES OF THE GINAS. 237 moon in autumn, saw the milk-ocean, equalling in beauty the breast of Lakshmi, which is white like the mass of moon-beams. Its waters increased in all four directions, and raged with ever-changing and moving, excessively high waves, It presented a splendid and pleasant spectacle as it rushed to and from the shore with its wind-raised, changeable, and moving billows, its tossing waves, and its rolling, splendid, transparent breakers. From it issued camphor-white foam under the lashing (tails) of great porpoises, fishes, whales, and other monsters of the deep’. Its agitated waters were in great uproar, occasioned by the vortex Gang4varta, which the vehemence and force of the great rivers produced; they rose, rushed onwards and backwards, and eddied. (43)
2Its agitated waters were in great uproar, occasioned by the vortex Gang4varta, which the vehemence and force of the great rivers produced; they rose, rushed onwards and backwards, and eddied. (43) 12, Then she saw a celestial abode excelling among the best of its kind, like the lotus (among flowers). It shone like the morning sun’s disk, and was of a dazzling beauty. Its thousand and eight excellent columns (inlaid with) the best gold and heaps of jewels diffused a brilliant light like a heavenly lamp, and the pearls fastened to its curtains glittered. It was hung with brilliant divine garlands, and decorated with pictures of wolves, bulls, horses, men, dolphins, birds, snakes, Kinnaras, deer, Sarabhas, Yaks, Samsaktas?, elephants, shrubs, and plants. There the Gandharvas performed their concerts, and the din of the drums of the gods, * The original has timingila-niruddha-tilitilika. 8 Samsakta, which I do not find mentioned elsewhere, is explained, ‘a kind of beast of prey;’ I think that samsakta may be an adjective specifying the following word, and mean ‘ fighting’ elephants. 238 KALPA SOTRA. imitating the sound of big and large rain-clouds, penetrated the whole inhabited world. It was highly delightful through curling, scented fumes of black aloe, the finest Kundurukka and Turushka, burning frankincense and other perfumes. It (shed) continuous light, was white, of excellent lustre, delighting the best of gods, and affording joy and pleasure. (44) 13. Then she saw an enormous heap of jewels containing Pulaka, Vagra, Indrantla, Sasyaka, Karketana, Lohitéksha, Marakata, Prab4la, Saugandhika, Sphaéika, Hamsagarbha, Avgana, and Xandrak4nta. Its base was on the level of the earth, and it illumined with its jewels even the sphere of the sky. It was high and resembled Mount Meru. (45) 14. And a fire. She saw a fire in vehement motion, fed with much-shining and honey-coloured ghee, smokeless, crackling, and extremely beautiful with its burning flames. The mass of its flames, which rose one above the other, seemed to interpenetrate each other, and the blaze of its flames appeared to bake the firmament in some places. (46) After having seen these fine, beautiful, lovely, handsome dreams, the lotus-eyed queen awoke on her bed while the hair of her body bristled for joy. Every mother of a Tirthakara sees these fourteen dreams in that night in which the famous Arhat enters her womb. (46 b) End of the Third Lecture. When the Kshatriy4mt Trisalé, having seen these fourteen illustrious, great dreams, awoke, she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) rose from her couch, and descended from the footstool. Neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even LIVES OF THE GINAS. 239
3When the Kshatriy4mt Trisalé, having seen these fourteen illustrious, great dreams, awoke, she was glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) rose from her couch, and descended from the footstool. Neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even LIVES OF THE GINAS. 239 gait like that of the royal swan, she went to the couch of the Kshatriya Siddhartha. There she awakened the Kshatriya Siddhartha, addressing him with kind, pleasing, amiable, tender, illustrious, beautiful, lucky, blest, auspicious, fortunate, heart-going, heart-easing, well-measured, sweet, and soft words. (47) Then the Kshatriy4mi Trisal4, with the permission of king Siddhartha, sat down on a chair of state inlaid with various jewels and precious stones in the form of arabesques; calm and composed, sitting on . an excellent, comfortable chair, she addressed him with kind, pleasing, &c. (see last paragraph), words, and spoke thus: (48) ‘O beloved of the gods, I was just now on my couch (as described in § 32), &e. (see § 5), and awoke after having seen the fourteen dreams; to wit, an elephant, &c. What, to be sure, O my lord, will be the happy result portended by these fourteen illustrious, great dreams?’ (49) When the Kshatriya Siddhartha had heard and perceived this news from the Kshatriyda#t Trisala, he glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 5, down to) firmly fixed the dreams in his mind, and entered upon considering them; he grasped the meaning of those dreams with his own innate intelligence and intuition which wére preceded by reflection, and addressing the Kshatriy4mt Trisald with kind, pleasing, &c., words, spoke thus: (50) ‘O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious dreams, &c. (see § 9, down to) you will give birth to a lovely, handsome boy, who will be the ensign of our family, the lamp of our family, the crown! of our family, the frontal ornament 1 Vadimsaya (avatamsaka) is here rendered by sekhara. 240 KALPA SOTRA. of our family, the maker of our family’s glory, the sun of our family, the stay of our family, the maker of our family’s joy and fame, the tree of our family, the exalter of our family; (a boy) with tender hands and feet, &c. (see § 9, down to the end). (51) And this boy, after having passed childhood, and, with just ripened intellect, having reached the state of youth, will become a brave, gallant, and valorous king, the lord of the realm, with a large and extensive army and train of waggons. (52) Therefore, O beloved of the gods, you have seen illustrious, &c., dreams, &c. (see § 9).’ In this way he repeatedly expressed his extreme satisfaction. When the Kshatriyamwt Trisald had heard and perceived this news from king Siddh4rtha, she glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see § 12, down to) and spoke thus: (53) ‘That is so, O beloved of the gods, &c. (see § 13, down to) as you have pronounced it.’
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