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xii. What follows, , is but a slight, not very, felicitous modification of what we read in the Mahâvagga l.c.:.

Evidently from the same source are the verses in Trishtubh uttered by the god Brahma, Mahâvagga I, 5, 7, and those found in Lalita-vistara, p. 517, 3 seq. The former text has:

The other runs thus:

On comparing the two texts we may infer that the Pâli version is purer, that  is a corruption of   or something like it, answering to a Sanskrit , but we cannot deny that the stanzas have the same origin.

In Mahâvagga I, 5, 12, the Lord addresses the god Brahma with the following Trishtubh : apârutâ tesam amatassa dvârâ ye sotavanto, pamuñkantu saddham.