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DEFEATS MÂRA.
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He addressed Bodhisattva and said: 'Kshatriya ! rise up quickly! for you may well fearl your death is at hand; you may practise your own religious system', 1048
*But let go this effort after the law of deliverance (for others); wage warfare in the field of charity? as a cause of merit, appease the tumultuous world, and so in the end reach your reward in heaven; 1049
•This is a way renowned and well established, in which former saints (victors) have walked, Rishis and kings and men of eminence; but this system of penury and alms-begging is unworthy of you. 1050
Now then if you rise not, you had best consider with yourself, that if you give not up your vow, and tempt me to let fly an arrrow, 1051
How that Aila, grandchild of Somas, by one of these arrows just touched, as by a fanning of the wind, lost his reason and became a madman; 1052
And how the Rishi Vimala, practising austerities, hearing the sound of one of these darts, his heart possessed by great fear, bewildered and darkened he lost his true nature; 1053
How much less can you-a late-born one-hope to escape this dart of mine. Quickly arise then! if hardly you may get away! 1054
*This arrow full of rankling poison, fearfully insidious where it strikes a foe! See now! with all my force, I point it! and are you resting in the face of such calamity? 1055
How is it that you fear not this dread arrow ? say! why do you not tremble?' Måra uttered such fear-inspiring threats, bent on overawing Bodhisattva. 1056
Or, a system of religion for yourself. Religious almsgiving. * Aida, the grandson of Soma (i.e. Purdravas, the lover of Urvasi?).
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |