On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.4

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We may remark about these two legends that they are well known from other treatises. In the Rājāvalī we have a version of the Lion-marriage which agrees pretty well with the story here told by our pilgrim.¹ It is given also in the Dīpavaṃsa, which makes the ravished princess to be a daughter of the Vanga King,² and it is referred to in other books. The second legend is related with artistic skill in the "Fo-pên-hsing-chi-ching". It is told also in the "Jātaka", and in the "Liu-tu-chi-ching".³ In all these, as in the pilgrim's story, the wonderful horse called Cloud-horse, or Horse-king, is the Bodhisattva, that is, the Buddha in a former existence. But in the Tibetan version of the legend the rescuing horse is an incarnation of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva,⁴ and in the Divyāvadāna he is Maitreya.⁵