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to him—the excellent, the greatest physician of the world by the nectareous ocean of whose benign glance, resplendent with brilliance, born of everything that is joyous and auspicious and which acts like unfailing elixir, the diseases of his devotees, such as birth, death, old age and worldly attachment, are cured in an instant.(I) The salutation is strictly Buddhistic and is on all fours with the opening lines of Vé.gbhata’s Ashtingarhridaya and of Amara- kosha, both of which are known to be by Buddhist authors; cf. also Lalitavistara: