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Bīo Uddeso
Section-2
Text Camarassa bhagavao vamdaņa-padain 3.77 tenam kälenam tenam samaenam rāyagihe nāmam nagare hotthā jāva parisă
pajjuvāsai. The Topic of Paying of Obeisance to the Lord by Camara In that period, at that time, there was a city named Rājagțha (Ovā. Sū.
19-52) ...... up to the assembly offered adoration. 3.78 tenam kāleņam tenan samaenam camare asurimde asurarāyā camaracamcāe
rāyahānie, sabhāe suhammāe, camaramsi sihäsanamsi, causatthie sāmāniyasāhassīhim jāva nattavihim uvadamsettā jāmeva disim pāubbhūe tāmeva disim padigae. In that period, at that time, Camara, the chief and the king of Asuras, seated on the Camara throne, in the Sudharmā Assembly Hall of the capital Camarcancā was surrounded by sixty-four thousand co-chiefs of gods (Rāy. Sū.7-120)...... up to displayed the art of dance before the Lord and departed to the direction from which he had come.
Asurakumāra-vannaga-padam 3.79 bhamteti! bhagavam goyame samaņam bhagavam mahäviram vamdai namamsai,
vamdittā namamsittă evam vayāsi-utthi nam bhamte! imise ruyanappabhäe pudhavie ahe asurakumārā devā parivasamti?
goyamā! no inatthe samatthe. The Topic of the Description of Asurakumāra
Addressing him as 'O Lord', the Ascetic Lord Gautama offered homage and obeisance to the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra. Having offered homage and obeisance, Gautama addressed him thus: O Lord, do the Asurakumāra gods reside beneath the Gem-hued (infernal) land? Gautama, it is not a consistent statement. 3.80 evam jāva ahesattamāe pudhavie, sohammassa kappassa ahe jāva utthi nam bhamte! isippabbhārāe pudhavīe ahe asurakumārä devā parivasamti? no inatthe samutthe. O Lord!, similarly do the Asurakumāra gods, reside beneath (A. Sū. 287)... up to the seventh (infernal) land, Sudharmā heaven (A. Sū. 287) ...... up to O Lord, the slightly tilted land? It is not a consistent statement.
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