| George Turnour - Pali literature - 1836 - 390 pages
...came to the Missa mountain. A certain devo of that mountain, being desirous of exhibiting the theros, having assumed the form of an elk, stationed himself...animal. On reaching the spot where the priests were, the thero came in sight of the monarch, but he (the metamorphosed devo) vanished. The thero conceiving... | |
| Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - Brahmanism - 1856 - 530 pages
..." A certain Deva of that mountain," says the Mahawanso, " being desirous of exhibiting the theros,^ having assumed the form of an elk, stationed himself...him standing,' sounded his bowstring; the elk fled, . . . the King gave chase," and came upon the Buddhist priests. Mahendra rendered himself alone visible,... | |
| William Skeen - Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka) - 1997 - 432 pages
...A certain devo assuming the form of an elk stationed himself there, grazing; the sovereign descried him, and saying, it is not fair to shoot him standing, sounded his bowstring, on which the elk fled to the mountain. The king gave chase to the flying animal, and on reaching- the... | |
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