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.
CH.
The golden network had bells of silver, and the silver network had bells of gold.
80. 'And when those networks of bells, Ânanda, were shaken by the wind there arose a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and intoxicating.
Just, Ânanda, as the seven kind of instruments yield, when well played upon, to the skilful man, a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and intoxicating—just even so, Ananda, when those networks of bells were shaken by the wind, there arose a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and intoxicating.
81. 'And whoever, Ånanda, in the royal city Kusâvati were at that time gamblers, drunkards, and given to drink, they used to dance round together to the sound of those networks of bells when shaken by the wind.
82. When the Palace of Righteousness, Ânanda, was finished it was hard to look at, destructive to the eyes. Just, Ananda, as in the last month of the rains in the autumn time, when the sky has become clear and the clouds have vanished away, the sun, springing up along the heavens, is hard to look at, and destructive to the eyes,-just so, Ananda, when the Palace of Righteousness was finished was it hard to look at, and destructive to the eyes.
83. Now there occurred, Ânanda, to the Great King of Glory this thought:
""Suppose, now, in front of the Palace of Righteousness, I were to make a Lotus-lake to bear the name of Righteousness.'”
'Then, Ânanda, the Great King of Glory made a Lotus-lake to bear the name of “Righteousness.”
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