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splendent with her red well rounded nails, on fingers rosy and round like flower pods, 

 her aims at the same time glittering with newly burnished arm-rings. Thus 

 holding that branch, and pausing awhile, she shone forth, casting a halo round her 

 like that emitted by white fleecy clouds passing over the disk of the moon. She re- 

 sembled the glimmering lightning, she looked the queen of the celestial Nandana. 

 Immediately her travails came on ; and the multitude having drawn a curtain round 

 her, retired. While still holding the branch, parturition took place. 



" At that instant the four great Brahm&no presented themselves bringing with 

 them a golden net work. Receiving the elect in that net, and presenting him to 

 the mother, they said to her, ' princess! rejoice, unto thee a son is born.' 



" Other mortals on their issuing from their mothers' womb, come forth involved 

 in defilement. Not so, a Buddho elect. A Buddho elect, with extended arms and 

 legs, and erect in posture, comes forth from his mother's womb, undefiled by the 

 impurities of the womb, clean and unsoiled, refulgent as a gem deposited in a Kasmir 

 shawl. Though such be (the purity of his birth) equally for the accommodation of 

 the Buddho elect, and of his mother, two streams descending from the skies on 

 the body of each, refreshed them exquisitely. 



*' Thereupon the four great kings (of the DewaUka) receiving him out of the golden 

 net from the hands of the attendant brahmano, placed him in an ajinappaweni (anti- 

 lope's hide) fitted for state purposes, and delightful to the feel ; from their hands, 

 men received him in a dukulachumba-takdn. Extricating himself from the hands of 

 the men, and placing himself on the earth, he looked towards the east. The many 

 thousand Chahkawaldni appeared to him as but a court-yard. Then the dewd and 

 men of those realms, making offering of garlands of fragrant flowers, &c. made this 

 exclamation : ' O ! great man : the equal to thee exists not here ; where will a supe- 

 rior be found.' Having in the same manner looked at the ten points of the compass, 

 without finding his equal ; facing the north, he advanced seven paces. He, who 

 thus advanced, trod on the earth— not on air ; was unclad— not clad ; was an infant— 

 not a person of sixteen years of age (an adult) ; and yet to the multitude he appeared 

 to advance on air — superbly clad and to be full sixteen years of age. 



" Thereupon stopping at the seventh step, and proclaiming this important an- 

 nouncement, he shouted forth with the voice of a lion : ' I am the most exalted in 

 the world : I am the most excellent in the world: I am the supreme in the world : 

 this is my last existence : henceforth there is no regeneration forme.' " 



After mentioning certain circumstances connected with the former 



birth of Buddho, and specifying that on the same day with himself, 



there also came into existence — the princess Yasodara (his wife) ; 



Chhanno and Kaludayi, his ministers ; his charger Kanthako ; his 



sacred tree, the bodhi ; and the four mines of wealth ; — the Atthakathd 



proceeds : 



"The inhabitants of both -cities (Dewadaho and Kapilawatthu) taking charge of 

 this great personage conveyed him to Kapilawatthu. 



" At that period, a certain t&paso, named Kalade'walo, who was a confidant of 

 the maha raja Suddhodano, and who had acquired the eight samdpatti, having 

 taken his meal, — for the purpose of enjoying his noon-day rest, — repaired to the 

 Tawatinsd realms. He there found the host of deivata, in the Tawatinsd realms, 

 revelling in joy, and in the exuberance of their felicity, waving cloths over their heads 

 and asked, • Why is it that ye thus rejoice, in the fulness of heart's delight ? Tell me 

 the cause thereof ?' The dewatd thus replied, ' Blessed ! unto the raja a son is born, 

 who seated at the foot of the bo tree, having become Buddho, will establish the 

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