31. The glory of the Avadana of the birth of the lion of the Sakyas has thus been described by me at length and yet very concisely; it must be corrected by pandits wherever anything is omitted,-my childish speech is not to be laughed at, but to be listened to with pleasure.

Whatever virtue may have acquired from describing the king of the Law, the deliverer from mundane existence, who assumes all forms,-may it become a store of merit for the production of right activity and inactivity in others, and for the diffusion of delight among the six orders of beings.

Thus ends the seventeenth sarga, called the Progress to Lumbini, in the great poem made by Asvaghosha, the Buddha-karita.