Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s2.79

c11.s2.79

The narratives of Mara’s attacks do not stand in the sacred texts in immediate connection with the history of the attainment of Sambodhi. *Before* the Sambodhi is placed that conversation recited in the Padhânasutta (“Sutta Nipata,” p. 69 of Fausböll’s translation), of which a northern Buddhist version, pretty closely corresponding with the Pâli text, occurs in the metrical portion of the “Lalita Vistara,” pp. 327–329. *After* the Sambodhi, within the period which Buddha passed under the tree Ajapâla, falls the similar narrative of the Mâra Samyutta (“Samy. Nikâya,” vol. i, fol. ghî–ghû; here after the temptation by Mâra comes that by his daughters).