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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 13<br />

25. At that time the constellation Puṣya was auspicious, and from the<br />

side of the queen, who was purified <strong>by</strong> her vow, her son was born for<br />

the welfare of the world, without pain and without illness.<br />

26. Like the sun bursting from a cloud in the morning, – so he too,<br />

when he was born from his mother’s womb, made the world bright<br />

like gold, bursting forth with his rays which dispelled the darkness.<br />

27. As soon as he was born the thousand-eyed (Indra) well-pleased<br />

took him gently, bright like a golden pillar; and two pure streams of<br />

water fell down from heaven upon his head with piles of Mandāra<br />

flowers.<br />

28. Carried about <strong>by</strong> the chief suras, and delighting them with the<br />

rays that streamed from his body, he surpassed in beauty the new<br />

moon as it rests on a mass of evening clouds.<br />

d,<br />

Kakṣīvat’s from the upper end of the arm, – thus too was his birth<br />

(miraculous).<br />

30. Having thus in due time issued from the womb, he shone as if he<br />

had come down from heaven, he who had not been born in the<br />

natural way, – he who was born full of wisdom, not foolish, as if his<br />

mind had been purified <strong>by</strong> countless aeons of contemplation.

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