10 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {January, 1906. 
3. The Origin of Mankind (according to the ace i Mas — 
y Rai Sarat Cuanpra Das, Bahadur, c 
n the beginning of the present Kalpa ! when all living beret 
with the exception of man, had sprung up in the regions of t 
Rirab (Sumeru) mountain, situated above the residence of the pee 
Dika Pala (guardians of the world called Maharaja Kayika *), 
two Deva-putra (angels) came down to this earth from heaven, 
became transformed into a shape we was the prototype of 
followed by other angels whose term of residence in heaven had 
pa th at the exhaustion of the merit they had acquired before. 
[It should be remembered that the paradise, where gods live, is a 
place of harmless enjoyments. There neither virtue nor vice is 
acquired, god only enjoys the fruit of his good karma, When 
the moral merit that is to his credit becomes exhausted he 
in course of time, multiplied on earth, These transformed and 
fallen divinities lived to immeasura bly long age, and are said to 
have been of a very tall stature, something like thirty-two cubits in 
height. In that early age they subsisted on contemplation’s food.® 
Then there was no sun nor moon, nor day nor night; they moved 
in the light that emanated from their own bodies.7 They could 
walk in space and perform all their works per es Ae in the 
L ARN great period of time; age. 2 ATSFIG| 
3 ENS RN miraculous birth. 
. 9 a Aq"3 the luminosity of this angel resembled that of the sun. 
It is probable that this individual, after acquiring immense moral merit, 
returned to heaven aud there became the sun. 
5 al are a The light that came out of the body of this angel was 
mild and cool like that of the moon. aa — like Nima Rabnang, eventually 
returned to heaven and became the mo 
jen RN. 
6 AQ’ ao ANT TRA) SATAN ax Qc" ] Pag-sam jonzafy, p. 10. 
1 ACA EARN AAS | Pag-sam jonzaii, p. 10. 
