"----Awaked, Bliss beyond mortal mother's filled her breast, And over half the earth a lovely light Forewent the morn. The strong hills shook; the waves Sank lulled; all flowers that blow by day came forth As 'twere high noon; down to the farthest hells Passed the Queen's joy, as when warm sunshine thrills Wood-glooms to gold, and into all the deeps A tender whisper pierced. 'Oh ye,' it said, 'The dead that are to live, the live who die, Uprise, and hear, and hope! Buddha is come!' Whereat in Limbos numberless much peace Spread, and the world's heart throbbed, and a wind blew With unknown freshness over land and seas. And when the morning dawned, and this was told, The grey dream-readers said, 'The dream is good! The Crab is in conjunction with the Sun; The Queen shall bear a boy, a holy child Of wondrous wisdom, profiting all flesh, Who shall deliver men from ignorance, Or rule the world, if he will deign to rule.' In this wise was the holy Buddha born." In Fig. 4, Plate xci., the same subject is also illustrated. Prof. Fergusson, referring to it, says: "Fig. 4 is another edition of a legend more frequently repeated than almost any other in Buddhist Scriptures. It was, with their artists, as great a favorite as the Annunciation and Nativity were with Christian painters."[118:1] When Buddha _avatar_ descended from the regions of the souls, and entered the body of the Virgin Maya, her womb suddenly assumed the appearance of clear, transparent crystal, in which Buddha appeared, beautiful as a flower, kneeling and reclining on his hands.[118:2] Buddha's representative on earth is the _Dalai Lama_, or _Grand Lama_, the High Priest of the Tartars. He is regarded as the vicegerent of God, with power to dispense divine blessings on whomsoever he will, and is considered among the Buddhists to be a sort of divine being. He is the Pope of Buddhism.[118:3] The _Siamese_ had a Virgin-born God and Saviour whom they called _Codom_. His mother, a beautiful young virgin, being inspired from heaven, quitted the society of men and wandered into the most unfrequented parts of a great forest, there to await the coming of a god which had long been announced to mankind. While she was one day prostrate in prayer, she was _impregnated by the sunbeams_. She thereupon retired to the borders of a lake, between Siam and Cambodia, where she was delivered of a "_heavenly boy_," which she placed within the folds of a _lotus_, that opened to receive him. When the boy grew up, he became a prodigy of wisdom, performed miracles, &c.[118:4]