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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alternate forty thousands, once each, every alternate hundred years !"
““Even so, Lord!" said the Wonderful Adviser, in assent, to the Great King of Glory.
16. 'From that time forth, Ânanda, the elephants came in alternate forty thousands, once each, every alternate hundred years.
17. Now, Ânanda, after the lapse of many years, of many hundred years, of many thousand years, there occurred to the Queen of Glory this thought:
«« 'Tis long since I have beheld the Great King of Glory. Suppose, now, I were to go and visit the Great King of Glory."
* 18. 'Then, Ånanda, the Queen of Glory said to the women of the harem :
""Arise now, dress your hair, and clad yourselves in fresh raiment. 'Tis long since we have beheld the Great King of Glory. Let us go and visit the Great King of Glory!”
19. ““ Even so, Lady!" said the women of the harem, Ananda, in assent, to the Queen of Glory. And they dressed their hair, and clad themselves in fresh raiment, and came near to the Queen of Glory.
20. “Then, Ânanda, the Queen of Glory said to the Great Adviser :
"" Arrange, O Great Adviser, the fourfold army in array. 'Tis long since I have beheld the Great King of Glory. I am about to go to visit the Great King of Glory."
* Subhaddá Devî. Subhadda, 'glorious, magnificent,' is a not uncommon name both for men and women in Buddhist and post-Buddhistic Hindu literature.
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