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That youth and beauty are essential conditions for the cultivation of arts has also been admitted in the *Lalita-vistara*. Therein it is stated that ‘when the Prince had duly grown up, he was taken to the school under a hundred thousand auspicious arrangements. . . . Now Viśvāmitra, the school-master, feeling the beauty and glory of the Bodhi-sattva to be insufferable, fell prostrate on the ground.’¹