1843.] Translation of the Neipaliya Devata Kaly&na. 401 



authority than the Kalyana. But to return to my text, from which I have unwittingly 

 too far deviated; the invocation of the first stanza is first, to the supreme Buddha, 

 next to the six Buddhas, (whose more familiar names will be found below,) then to the 

 Sakti of Adi Buddha, and lastly to the Sakties of each of the six Buddhas. The names 

 of these ladies are as follow: Adi Buddha's Prajna, Vairo Chana's Vajradhatweswari, 

 Akshobhya's Lochana, Ratna Sambhava's Mamukhi, Amitabha's Pandara, Amogha 



Siddha's Tara, Vajra Satwa's Vajrasatwatmika. 



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2. May the Goddesses Sampatproda, Ganapatihridaya, Vajravidra- 

 vini, Ushnisha, Parna, Kitivaravadana, Grahamatrika, Kotilakshi, and 

 the Pancharaksha be propitious to us. I adore them. 



2. The distinction of Swobhavika and Aishwarika Buddhists has already been 

 alluded to. There is another division into exoteric and esoteric doctrines. The god- 

 desses invoked in this stanza belong to the esoteric system, and to the Swobhavika 

 school: for they are all said to have been produced from Swobhava "each with her 

 own Vija Mantra." It may be proper here to observe that the Swobhavikas do not 

 deny intelligence, but immaterial entity. They insist that those powers which others 

 say were impressed on nature by the God who created nature are proper to matter 

 itself which alone is ; and which is eternal, not in its palpable individual forms, but in 

 its impressable elements. They add that nature produces not only man but superior 

 beings, (though none with such a plenitude of power as man is capable of attaining,) 

 and amongst these beings are the goddesses invoked in this stanza. The more familiar, 

 and (as it were) proper name of Sampatproda is Vasundhara, of Kitivaravadana is 

 Marichi, of Kotilakshi is Pratingira, and the names of the five Rakshas are Pratesara, 

 Mahasahasrapramurdini, Maha Mayari, Maha Setavati and Maha Mantranusarini. 



3. May Ratna Garbha, Dipankara, the Jina Manikusama, Vipasyi, 

 Sikhi, Viswabhu, Kakutsat, Kanaka Muni, Kasyapa, and Sakya Sinha : 

 may all the past, present and future Buddhas, whose excellence ex- 

 ceeds the bounds of the ten faculties be propitious to us. I adore them. 



3. The objects of invocation in this stanza are ten Manushi Buddhas. The seven 

 last are the famous " Sapta Buddha," and I doubt the propriety of associating any 

 other to them. 1 am told that the Karana Pundarika assigns these 10 Buddhas to the 

 four yugas, giving the three first named to the Satya, an idle story, or at least a legend 

 contradicted by higher authority, such as that of the Sambhu Purana, which makes 

 Vipasyi and Sikhi the Buddhas of the satya yuga. 



4. May the first of the Bodhisatwas named Avalokeswara, may 

 Maitreya, Anauta Ganja, Samantbhadra, Kshitijathara, Khagarbha, 

 Sarvadyonevarakhya, Kulisvaradhara, and the great Manja Natha be 

 propitious to us. I adore them. 



