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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Four and eighty thousand yeomen, of whom the Wonderful Steward was the chief:
Four and eighty thousand nobles, of whom the Wonderful Adviser was the chief:
Four and eighty thousand cows, with jute trappings, and horns tipped with bronze:
'Four and eighty thousand myriads of garments, of delicate textures, of flax, and cotton, and silk, and wool :
Four and eighty thousand dishes, in which, in the evening and in the morning, rice was served 1.
13. 'Now at that time, Ânanda, the four and eighty thousand state elephants used to come every evening and every morning to be of service to the Great King of Glory.
14. 'And this thought occurred to the Great King of Glory:
"" These eighty thousand elephants come every evening and every morning to be of service to me. Suppose, now, I were to let the elephants come in alternate forty thousands, once each, every alternate hundred years!”
15. “Then, Ânanda, the Great King of Glory said to the Great Adviser:
""O, my friend, the Great Adviser! these eighty thousand elephants come every evening and every morning to be of service to me. Now, let the elephants come, O my friend, the Great Adviser, in
Most of the trappings and cloths here mentioned are the same as those referred to in the Magghima Sîla, $$ 5, 6, 7 recurring in the Tevigga Sutta, and in the Brahmagala Sutta. The whole paragraph is four times repeated below, $$ 29, 31, 33, 37.
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