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and, like a precious gem, who extinguished the fire of metempsy- 

 chosis ; (2) who was the chief of the world, blessed with 

 prosperity, who when king Kusa heard the lion's roar, who (by 

 self-denial) extinguished in himself the allurements of sin and 

 vice, — who was gentle (cold) as the moon, benevolent, the saviour 

 of men, the ocean of river-like wisdom, and who destroyed the 

 weakness of the heart by means thereof. 



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(1) C32)«3, derived from es§)<2q (Sanskrit), means " allwise "'; (2) eassd. 

 from <23D«3aaa (Sanskrit), means" master" or "teacher"; (3) ©ddig means 

 " the enemy of Mara," a god inimical to Buddha ; (4) ©©aassgdz, from 

 ©®3ssf and ^igdi, means " the teacher of Niwan " — the summum bonum 

 of the Buddhist — the doctrine of the extinction or annihilation of the 

 human soul ; (5) §}*S3g, compounded of §)-s8 and §>g, means " supreme 

 intelligence " ; (6) ea®S3i€d is the Elu expression of the Sanskrit e3©33S3 

 ©-S^, " eyes on all sides " — omniscient ; (7) ©C3id, " five eyes," having 

 reference to the five powers of sight which his followers attribute to 

 Buddha — they are, first, ©e3isa, which means ©edqsitt, "bodily eye," 

 the power whereof was so great that it is said he could see the distance 

 of sixteen miles just as we can see at the distance of sixteen inches, 

 and that it was composed of five colours ; i.e., the eye-lids were 

 blue, their sockets glossy yellow, their corners red, the whites of the 

 eyes snowy white, and their black jet black ; secondly, §5)<£iea or §©<f iea, 

 " godly eye," which had the power of seeing that which the ®S3ie3 could 

 not penetrate ; thirdly, Cities or Oi>S3i<^iea, " eye of wisdom," which 

 means in English " the mind's eye," capable of an insight into 

 superlative wisdom ; fourthly, gg^ica, " Buddha's eye," a sight which 

 none possessed but those who became Buddha by predestination ; and 

 fifthly, cissies (vide supra), " omniscience "—(8) §<ao)d, from §<3 and 



