Lalitavistara Sūtra

The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from the time of his descent from Tushita until his first sermon in the Deer Park at Sarnath near Varanasi.

The sutra consists of twenty-seven chapters:[1] The story ends at the very moment when the Buddha has finally manifested all the qualities of awakening and is fully equipped to influence the world, as he did over the next forty-five years by continuously teaching the Dharma and establishing his community of followers.

[3] In these reliefs, the story starts from the glorious descent of the Buddha from the Tushita heaven, and ends with his first sermon in the Deer Park.

Les Classiques du bouddhisme mahāyāna, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, vol.

Reprinted as Le Lalitavistara : l'histoire traditionnelle de la vie du Bouddha Çakyamuni, Les Deux Océans, 1988, 1992, 450 p., ISBN 2866810228, 9782866810221 In the Lalitavistara, the Buddha explains to a mathematician named Arjuna the system of numerals in multiples of 100, starting from a koti (in later literature 107 but this is uncertain) to a tallakshana (1053 then).