ABSTRACT
Now Gotama, when as Bodhisat he ceased to belong to the hosts of the heaven of Delight, descended into his mother's womb, mindful and self-possessed.1 That, in such a case, is the rule.
It is the rule that, when the Bodhisat ceases to belong to the hosts of heaven of Delight, and enters a mother's ' womb, there is ,made manifest throughout the worldincluding the worlds of the gods, the Maras and the Brahmas and the world (of earth) with its recluses and brahmans, its princes and peoples-an infinite and splendid radiance passing the glory of the gods. Even in those dark spaces which are between the worlds, baseless, murky and dark, and where even the moon and sun, so wondrous and mighty, cannot prevail to give light, even there is made manifest this infinite and splendid radiance, passing the glory of the gods. And those beings who happen to be existing there, perceiving each other by that radiance say: "Verily there be other beings reborn here.'' And the ten thousand worlds of the universe tremble and shudder and quake. And that this infinite splendid radiance is made manifest in the world, passing the glory of the gods, that, in such a case, is the rule.
