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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XVII
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Indra's capital of Bellevue is in the centre.

There he is enthroned, with a thousand heads and a thousand eyes, and four arms grasping the vajra, with his wife and 119,000 concubines.

There he receives the monthly reports of the four Maharajas, concerning the progress of good and evil in the world," &c.

&c.
(3) Buddha's mother, Maya and Mahamaya, the _mater immaculata_ of the Buddhists, died seven days after his birth.

Eitel says, "Reborn in Tushita, she was visited there by her son and converted." The Tushita heaven was a more likely place to find her than the Trayastrimsas; but was the former a part of the latter?
Hardy gives a long account of Buddha's visit to the Trayastrimsas (M.B., pp.


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