BUDDHÁVATÁRA,
or
Buddha-Incarnation.

He was born of Máya in the house of Rájá Sudhodana of the race of Rámachandra during the Kali Yuga, on the eighth of the light half of the month of Vaisákha in the city of Makata.*

They say that as many sacrifices were performed at this period and the number of animals sacrificed was very large, Vishṇu willed to appear in human form to condemn the Vedic institutions and their sacrificial rites. For this reason he became incarnate in that year and lived to the age of a hundred. Some account of him has already preceded.