Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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THE GREAT KING OF GLORY.
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a fine horse of the best blood long since well trained-submitted to control.
29. “When as before, Ânanda, the Great King of Glory, to test that wondrous Horse, mounted on to it early in the morning, it passed over along the broad earth to its very ocean boundary, and then returned again, in time for the morning meal, to the royal city of Kusâvati.
30. 'Such, Ânanda, was the wondrous Horse that appeared to the Great King of Glory.
31. 'Now further, Ânanda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Gem-Treasure? That Gem was the Veluriya, bright, of the finest species, with eight facets, excellently wrought, clear, transparent, perfect in every way.
32. “The splendour, Ananda, of that wondrous Gem spread round about a league on every side.
33. “When as before, Ânanda, the Great King of Glory, to test that wondrous Gem, set all his fourfold army in array and raised aloft the Gem upon his standard top, he was able to march out in the gloom and darkness of the night.
34. 'And then too, Ânanda, all the dwellers in the villages, round about, set about their daily work, thinking, " The daylight hath appeared.”
35. 'Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Gem that appeared to the Great King of Glory.
36. 'Now further, Ananda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Woman-Treasure?, graceful in figure, beautiful in appearance, charming in manner, and of the most fine complexion; neither
· Mani-ratanam.
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Itthi-ratanam.
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