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SADDHARMA-PUNDARÍKA.
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who had become mendicants' and novices, said to the Gina : 'Expound, O Chief, the superior law;
79. 'That we may become sages, knowers of the world, such as thyself art, O supreme of all Ginas, and that all these beings may become such as thyself art, O hero, O clear-sighted ones.'
80. And the Gina, considering the wish of his sons, the young princes, explained the highest superior enlightenment by means of many myriads of kotis of illustrations.
81. Demonstrating with thousands of arguments and elucidating the knowledge of transcendent wisdom, the Lord of the world indicated the veritable course (of duty) such as was followed by the wise Bodhisattvas.
82. This very Satra of great extension, this good Lotus of the True Law, was by the Lord delivered in many thousands of stanzas, so numerous as to equal the sands of the Ganges.
83. After delivering this Satra, the Gina entered the monastery for the purpose of becoming absorbed 3 in meditation; during eighty-four complete Æons the Lord of the world continued meditating, sitting on the same seat.
84. Those novices, perceiving that the Chief remained in the monastery without coming out of it, imparted to many kotis of creatures that Buddha
Kellakabhàta, var. lect. kelukabh. and kailaka bhata. The Kailaka 'is he who contents himself with such a portion of clothes as barely suffices to cover his nakedness, rejecting everything more as superfluous.' Hodgson Essays, p. 52, cf. pp. 30 and 64.
* Or, according to the reading followed by Burnouf, 'clearsighted as thyself, O hero.'
s Vilakshayiti.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |