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XI.
APPARITION OF A STOPA.
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Lord Sâkyamuni, to the (four) classes of the assembly. I myself, Lord, have come hither to hear the Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law.
Now the four classes of the assembly, on perceiving the Lord Prabhàtaratna, the Tathagata, &c., who had been extinct for many hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Æons, speaking in this way, were filled with wonder and amazement. Instantly they covered the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., with heaps of divine and human flowers. And then the Lord Prabhūtaratna, the Tathagata, &c., ceded to the Lord Säkyamuni, the Tathậgata, &c., the half of the seat on that very throne within that same great Stapa of jewels and said : Let the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., sit down here. Whereon the Lord Säkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., sat down upon that half-seat together with the other
Tathagata, so that both Tathagatas were seen as meteors in the sky, sitting on the throne in the middle of the great Ståpa of jewels.
And in the minds of those four classes of the assembly rose this thought: We are far off from the two Tathagatas ; therefore let us also, through the power of the Tathâgata, rise up to the sky. As the Lord apprehended in his mind what was going on in the minds of those four classes of the assembly, he instantly, by magic power, established the four classes as meteors in the sky. Thereupon the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, addressed the four classes: Who amongst you, monks, will endeavour to expound this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law in this Saha-world? The
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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 |