نصوص ماهايانا البوذية: سوترا الماس، سوترا القلب، سوخافاتيفيوها (SBE XLIX)

22. Miyi also, holding him in her womb, like a line of clouds holding a lightning-flash, relieved the people around her from the sufferings of poverty by raining showers of gifts. 23. Then one day by the king’s permission the queen, having a great longing in her mind, went with the inmates of the gynaeceum into the garden Lumbini. 24. As the queen supported herself by a bough which hung laden with a weight of flowers, the Bodhisattva suddenly came forth, cleaving open her womb. 25. 1 At that time the constellation Pushya was auspicious, and from the side of the queen, who was purified by her vow, her son was born for the welfare of the world, without pain and without illness. 26. Like the sun bursting from a cloud in the morning, — so he too, when he was born from his mother’s womb, made the world bright like gold, bursting forth with his rays which dispelled the darkness. 27. As soon as he was born the thousand-eyed (Indra) well-pleased took him gently, bright like a golden pillar ; and two pure streams of water fell down from heaven upon his head with piles of Man dira flowers. 28. Carried about by the chief suras, and delighting them with the rays that streamed from his body, he 1 From this point the Tibetan and Chinese versions agree more or less closely with the Sanskrit text. THE BUDDHA-KARITA OF ASVAGHOSHA. surpassed in beauty the new moon as it rests on a mass of evening clouds. 29. As was Aurva’s birth from the thigh x, and Przthu’s from the hand1 2, and Mandhatrz’s, who was like Indra himself, from the forehead 3, and Kakshivat’s from the upper end of the arm 4 5, — thus too was his birth (miraculous). 30.…