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at my face as I am seated in the lotus-posture 218 in the forest with a young deer on my lap? When shall I make no distinction between an enemy and friend, straw and women, gold and a stone, a jewel and mud, emancipation and existence?' He should make such wishes, bulbs of the vine of extreme joy, to mount the series of gunasthānas, the ladder to the house of emancipation. Observing this conduct zealously day and night, engaged in the described conduct properly, even a householder becomes pure.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
After hearing this sermon of the Lord many people became mendicants and among them were seventeen ganadharas, Kumbha, et cetera. At the end of the sermon of the Lord of the World, Kumbha delivered a sermon. At the end of his sermon Sakra and the others bowed to the Lord and went to their respective abodes.
Sasanadevatās (98-101)
Originating in that congregation, the Yakṣa Bhṛkuți, three-eyed, four-faced, gold color, with a bull for a vehicle, with four right arms holding a citron, spear, and hammer and one in abhayada-position and with four left arms holding an ichneumon, axe, thunderbolt and rosary; and likewise the goddess Gāndhārī, fair-bodied, with a hansa for a vehicle, adorned with two right arms holding a sword and in varada-position and with two left ones both holding citrons, became the messenger-deities of Lord Nami.
With them always near, the Lord wandered over the earth for twenty-five hundred years less nine months.
His congregation (103-107)
There were twenty thousand monks, forty-one thousand nuns, four hundred and fifty who knew the fourteen purvas, sixteen hundred who had clairvoyant 213 92. See II, n. 18.
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