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SADDHARMA-PUNDARÍKA.
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instructions and such as they have been set forth, to kotis of living beings;
30. This is not so difficult; nor is it, to train at the present time monks, and confirm my disciples in the five parts of transcendent knowledge.
31. But more difficult is it to keep this Satra, believe in it, adhere to it, or expound it again and again.
32. Even he who confirms many thousands of kotis of Arhats, blest with the possession of the six transcendent faculties (Abhigñas), like sands of the Ganges,
33. Performs something not so difficult by far as the excellent man does who after my extinction shall keep my sublime law.
34. I have often, in thousands of worlds, preached the law, and to-day also I preach it with the view that Buddha-knowledge may be obtained.
35. This Satra is declared the principal of all Satras; he who keeps in his memory this Satra, keeps the body of the Gina.
36. Speak, O young men of good family, while the Tathagata is (still) in your presence, who amongst you is to exert himself ? in later times to keep the Satra.
37. Not only I myself shall be pleased, but the Lords of the world in general, if one would keep for a moment this Sutra so difficult to keep.
38. Such a one shall ever be praised by all the Lords of the world, famed as an eminent hero, and quick in arriving at transcendent wisdom.
1 The latter half of the stanza runs thus : shadabhigñamahabhâgân yatha Gangâya vâlika.
? Or, shall be capable.
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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 |