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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MAHÂ-SUDASSANA SUTTA.
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were in the heart of the Great King of Glory, he addressed Vissakamma the god', and said:
"“Come now, Vissakamma, create me a mansion for the Great King of Glory—a palace which shall be called 'Righteousness 2.!”.
68.““ Even so, Lord !” said Vissakamma, in assent, Ânanda, to Sakka, the king of the gods. And as instantaneously as a strong man might stretch forth his folded arm, or draw in his arm again when it was stretched forth, so quickly did he vanish from the heaven of the Great Thirty-Three, and appeared before the Great King of Glory.
69. “Then, Ânanda, Vissakamma the god said to the Great King of Glory:
““I would create for thee, O King, a mansion a palace which shall be called “Righteousness !'”
Then, Ânanda, the Great King of Glory signified, by silence, his consent.
70. 'So Vissakamma the god, Ânanda, created for the Great King of Glory a mansion-a palace to be called “Righteousness.”
71. 'The Palace of Righteousness, Ananda, was on the east and on the west a league in length, and on the north and on the south half a league in breadth.
72. “The ground-floor, Ânanda, of the Palace of Righteousness , in height as three times the height to which a man can reach, was built of bricks, of four kinds. One kind of brick was of gold, and one of silver, and one of beryl, and one of crystal.
1 Vissakam mam devaputtam, where devaputtam means not son of a god, but belonging to, born into the class of, the gods. 2 Dhammam nama Pâsâdam. 3 Dhammassa pâsâdassa vatthum.
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