84 Quotations from Original Sanscrit [Feb. 



2. He in whom are the three gunas, who is the Mahd Marti and 

 the Visvardpa (form of all things), became manifest : he is the self- 

 existent great Buddha, the A'di ndth, the Maheswara. 



3. Ha is the cause of all existences in the three worlds ; the cause 

 of their well being also. From his profound meditation (Dhydn), the 

 universe was produced by him. 



4. He is the self-existent, the Iswara, the sum of perfections, the 

 infinite, void of members or passions : all things are types of him, and 

 yet he was no type : he is the form of all things, and yet formless. 



5. He is without parts, shapeless, self- sustained, void of pain and 

 care, eternal and not eternal* ; him I salute. (Kdranda Vyuha.) 



6. A'di Buddha is without beginning. He is perfect, pure within, 

 the essence of the wisdom of thatness, or absolute truth. He knows all 

 the past. His words are ever the same. 



7. He is without second. He is omnipresent. He is Nairatmya 

 lion to the Kutirtha deerf. (Nam sangiti.) 



8. I make salutation to A'di Buddha, who is one and sole in the 

 universe ; who gives every one Bodhi-jnydn ; whose name is Up ay a ; who 

 became manifest in the greatest Sunydta, as the letter A. Who is the 

 Tathagata ; who is known only to those who have attained the wisdom 

 of absolute truth. (Ditto.) 



9. As in the mirror we mortals see our forms reflected, so A'di 

 Buddha is known (in Pravritti) by the 32 lakshanas and 80 anuvinjanas. 

 (Ditto.) 



10. As the rainbow, by means of its five colours, forewarns mortals 

 of the coming weather, so does A'di Buddha admonish the world of its 

 good and evil actions by means of his five essential colours]:. (Ditto.) 



* One in Nirvritti ,- the other in Pravritti ,• and so of all the preceding con- 

 trasted epithets. Nirvritti is quiescence and abstraction : Pravritti, action and 

 concretion. All the schools admit these two modes, and thus solve the difficulty 

 of different properties existing in cause and in effects. 



-f- Comment says, that Nairatmya is ' Sarva Dharmandm nirabhds lakshanang ,•' 

 and that Tirtha means Molcsha, and Kutirtha, any perversion of the doctrine 

 of Molcsha, as to say it consists in absorption into Brahrn : and it explains the 

 whole thus, ' He thunders in the ears of all those who misinterpret Moksha, 

 there is no true Moksha, but Sunydta." 1 Another comment gives the sense thus, 

 dividing the sentence into two parts, ' There is no atma (life or soul) without 

 him: he alarms the wicked as the lion the deer.' The first commentator is a 

 Swobhdvika ; the second, an Aiswarika one. 



X White, blue, yellow, red, and green, assigned to the five Dhyani Buddhas. 



For a detail of the lakshanas, anuvinjanas, balas, basitas, &c. of the neighbour- 

 ing quotations, see Appendix A. 



