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Bhagavai 3:6:241-245
“Yes, he can."
3.242 anagăre nam bhamte! bhāviappā kevaiyāim pabhū gūmarūväim vikuvvittae?
goyamā! je jahānāmae—juvatim juvāne hatthenam hatthe genhejjā tam ceva jāva vikuvõimsu vā, vikuvvati vā, vikuvvissati vā. What number of villages, O Lord! can a self-cultivated ascetic create by his protean power? Here repeat 3.196 mutatis muntadis. O Gautama! just like the tight clasping of the hand of a maiden by the hand of a youth or like the hub of a wheel of a cart connected with spokes from all sides, the self-cultivated ascetic ....... (3.196) up to though he did never exercise such power of projection of the protean body in the past, nor does he exercise
such power in the present, nor will he do so in the future. 3.243 evam jāva sannivesarūvam vā.
In the same way ..... up to hamlet. Ayarakkha-padam 3.244 camarassa ņam bhamte! asurimdassa asuraranno kui āyarakkhadevasāhassio
pannattāo? goyamā! cattāri causatthio āyarakkhadevasāhassio punnattāv, te nam äyara
kkhā—vannao. The Topic of the Sentinels How many thousand of sentinel gods, O Lord! is Camara, the chief and the king of asuras said to possess? O Gautama! he said to possess two lakh fifty-six thousand sentinel gods.
Description of sentinel gods—(see, Rāyapaseniyam, sūtra 664). 3.245 evam savvesim imdānam jassa jattiyā āyarukkhā te bhāniyavvā. Similarly, the sentinel gods of all the chiefs are to be spoken off.
Bhāsya
1. Sutra 245
The sentinel gods are four-times the co-chief gods.
CHIEF
Camaru Bali Nine nikāyas each Sakra
CO-CHIEF 64000 60000
6000 84000
SENTINEL 256000 240000
24000 336000
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