| Archaeological Survey of India - 1927 - 384 pàgines
...Bodhisattva appear to be Indra and Brahma. Hiuan Tsang's2 account of this event is illuminating : " Moreover two dragons sprang forth, and fixed in the...warm water stream from his mouth to wash the prince." Such might have been written by one describing a relief like the very one in question. These widely... | |
| J. P. Vogel, Jean Philippe Vogel - 1995 - 414 pàgines
...after having narrated how the new-born Bodhisattva made seven paces in each direction, he adds : " Moreover, two dragons sprang forth, and, fixed in...his mouth, to wash the prince. To the east of this slupa are two fountains of pure water, by the side of which have been built two stupas. This is the... | |
| Samuel Beal - 2000 - 384 pàgines
...a st-iipa built by Aaôka-râja, on the spot where the two dragons bathed the body of the prince.65 When Bodhisattva was born, he walked without assistance...his mouth, to wash the prince. To the east of this stupa are two fountains of pure M Wu-yu-ihu. It is curious that " For all these events the ordiit ihould... | |
| Marinus Willem de Visser - 1928 - 444 pàgines
...entitled "Indian Serpent-lore", gives the same legend in a duplicated form: the two dragons (Nagas), "fixed in the air, poured down, the one a cold and...warm water stream from his mouth, to wash the prince" and "two springs gurgled forth from the earth just before the queen, the one cold, the other warm,... | |
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