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Mdrga (ascetical or monastic character) essaying a release from this 

 mortal coil, fulfilling the ten virtues from the Satya to the Dwdpara 

 Yuga, till at last, in the Kali Yuga, having completely freed himself 

 from sublunary cares, having become a Bhikshuka*, and gone to Baddh 

 Gyd, he rejected and reviled the Brahmanical penance, did all sorts of 

 true penance for six years under the tree of knowledge on banks of the 

 Niranjana river ; conquered the Namuchimaraf, obtained Bodhi-jnyan, 

 became the most perfect of the Buddhas, seated himself among the Bodhi 

 satwas, (Ananda ' Bhikshu and the rest,) granted wisdom to the simple, 

 fulfilled the desires of millions of people, and gave Moksha\ to them 

 and to himself. (Lallita Vistdra.) 



5 . A hare fell in with a tiger : by means of Yatna the hare threw 

 the tiger into a well. Hence it appears that Yatna prevails over phy- 

 sical force, knowledge, and the Mantras. (Bhadra Kalpavadan.) 



6. Nara Sinha (Raja of Benares) was a monster of cruelty. Satta 

 Swama Raja, by means of Yatna, compelled him to deliver up 100 

 Rdjkumdrs, whom Nara Sinha had destined for a sacrifice to the gods. 

 (Bhadra Kalpavadan. J 



7. Sudhana Kumara found a beautiful daughter of a horse-faced 

 Raja named Dru'ma. By means of Yatna he carried her off, and kept 

 her ; and was immortalized for the exploit. (Swayambhu Purdna.J 



A'di Buddha. 

 1 . Know that when, in the beginning, all was perfect void (Mahd- 

 sunydta§), and the five elements were not, then A'di Buddha, the stain- 

 less, was revealed in the form of flame or light. 



* Mendicant : one of the four regular orders of the Batiddhas. — See the Preface. 



-f- A Daitya of K&nchanapara, personification of the principle of evil. Bodhi' 

 jnydn is the wisdom of Buddhism. Ananda was one of the first and ablest of 

 Sa'kya's disciples. The first code of Buddhism is attributed to him. 



X Emancipation, absorption. 



§ The doctrine of Sunijdta is the darkest corner of the metaphysical laby- 

 rinth. 18 kinds of Suny&ta are enumerated in the Raksha Bhagavati. I under- 

 stand it to mean generally space, which some of our philosophers have held to 

 be plenum, others a vacuum. In the transcendental sense of the Buddhists, it 

 signifies not merely the universal ubi, but also the modus existendi of all things 

 in the state of quiescence and abstraction from phenomenal being. The Bud~ 

 dhists have eternised matter or nature in that state. The energy of nature ever 

 is, but is not ever exerted ; and when not exerted, it is considered to be void of 

 all those qualities which necessarily imply perishableness. Most of the Bud- 

 dhists deem (upon different grounds) all phsenomena to be as purely illusory as 

 do the Vedantists. The phsenomena of the latter are sheer energies of God ; 

 those of the former are sheer energies of Nature, deified and substituted for God. 

 See note on quot. A'di Sangha. The Aisivarikas put their A'di Buddha in place 

 of the nature of the older Swobhdvikas. See Journal of As. Soc. No. 33, Art. 1. 



