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the giver and the ikon of that wisdom ; the ever living (Sanatani) ; 

 the inscrutable ; the mother of Buddha*. (Pujd hand.) 



13. O Prajnd Devi ! thou art the mother (Janani) of all the Bud- 

 has, the grandmother of the Bodhi-satwas, and great grandmother of 

 all (other) creatures! thou art the goddess (Isdni). (Ditto.) 



14. Thou, Sri Bhagavati Devi Prajnd, art the sum of all the sci- 

 ences, the mother of all the Buddhas, the enlightener of Bodhi-jnydn, 

 the light of the universe ! (Gunakdranda Vydha.) 



15. The humbler of the pride of Namuchi-mdra, and of all proud 

 ones : the giver of the quality of Satya ; the possessor of all the sciences, 

 the Lakshmi ; the protector of all mortals, such is the Dharma Ratna. 

 (Ditto.) 



16. All that the Buddhas have said, as contained in the Mahd Ydna 

 Sutra and the rest of the Sutras, is also Dharma Ratnaf. (Ditto.) 



17. Because Buddha sits on the brow, the splendour thence derived 

 to thy form illuminates all the ethereal expanse, and sheds over the 

 three worlds the light of a million of suns, the four Devatds, Brahma, 

 Vishnu, Mahesa, and Indra, are oppressed beneath thy feet, which is ad- 

 vanced in the Alir-Asan. O Arya Tdrd ! he who shall meditate on thee 

 in this form shall be relieved from all future births. (Sarakd Dhardl.) 



18. Thy manifestation, say some of the wise, is thus, from the 

 roots of the hairs of thy body sprang Akdsh, heaven, earth, and hades, 

 together with their inhabitants, the greater Devatds, the lesser, the 

 Daityas, the Siddhds, Gandharbas, and Ndgas. So too (from thy hairs), 

 wonderful to tell ! were produced the various mansions of the Buddhas, 

 together with the thousands of Buddhas who occupy them§. From 

 thy own being were formed all moving and motionless things without 

 exception. (Ditto.) 



19. Salutation to Prajnd Devi, from whom, in the form of desire, 



* Sugatjd, which the Vdmuchdrs render, ' of whom Buddha was born ;.' 

 the Dakshindchdrs, ' bora of Buddha," 1 or goer to Buddha, as wife to husband. 



f Hence the scriptures are worshipped as forms of A'di Dharma Sutra, means 

 literally thread (of discourse), aphorism. Sdkya, like other Indian sages, taught 

 orally, and it is doubtful if he himself reduced his doctrines to a written code, 

 though the great scriptures of the sect are now generally attributed to him. 

 Sutra is now the title of the books of highest authority among the Bauddhas. 



X Composed by Sarvajna Mitrapada of Kashmir, and in very high esteem, 

 though not of scriptural authority. 



§ These thousands of Buddhas of immortal mould are somewhat opposed to 

 the so called simplicity of Buddhism ! ! whatever were the primitive doctrines 

 of Sdkya, it is certaiu that the system attributed to him, and now found in the 

 written authorities of the sect, is the very antipodes of simplicity. 

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