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SADDHARMA-PUNDARÍKA.
VI.
CHAPTER VI.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF FUTURE DESTINY.
After pronouncing these stanzas the Lord addressed the complete assembly of monks: I announce to you, monks, I make known to you that the monk Kâsyapa, my disciple, here present, shall do homage to thirty thousand kotis of Buddhas; shall respect, honour, and worship them; and shall keep the true law of those Lords and Buddhas. In his last bodily existencel in the world Avabhâsa (i. e. lustre), in the age (Æon) Mahâvydha (i.e. great division) he shall be a Tathâgata, an Arhat, &c. &c., by the name of Rasmiprabhâsa (i.e. beaming with rays). His lifetime shall last twelve intermediate kalpas, and his true law twenty intermediate kalpas; the counterfeit of his true law shall last as many intermediate kalpas. His Buddha-field will be pure, clean, devoid of stones, grit, gravel; of pits and precipices; devoid of gutters and dirty poolsa; even, pretty, beautiful, and pleasant to see; consisting of lapis lazuli, adorned with jewel-trees, and looking like a checker-board with eight compartments set off with gold threads. It will be strewed
Paskima samukkhraya, which also means western rise, elevation.
? Apagatasyanda nikag@thodilla, var. lect. Othodigalla. My rendering of the last part of the compound is conjectural.
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