Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Buddhas, be a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law. These six thousand? nuns also, partly perfected in discipline, partly not, shall along with others become Bodhisattvas' and preachers of the law before the face of the Tathagatas. Afterwards, when thou shalt have completed the course of a Bodhisattva, thou shalt become, under the name of Sarvasattvapriyadarsana (i.e. lovely to see for all beings), a Tathagata, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c. And that Tathagata Sarvasattvapriyadarsana, O Gautami, shall give a prediction by regular succession to those six thousand Bodhisattvas concerning their destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment.
Then the nun Yasodhara, the mother of Rahula, thought thus: The Lord has not mentioned my name. And the Lord comprehending in his own mind what was going on in the mind of the nun Yasodharâ said to her: I announce to thee, Yasodhara, I declare to thee : Thou also shalt before the face of ten thousand kotis* of Buddhas become a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law, and after regularly completing the course of a Bodhisattva thou shalt become a Tathagata, named Rasmisatasahasrapariparnadhvaga, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c., in the
In the margin has been added by a later hand: "after paying honour, respect, reverence, worship, and veneration. A little further on we find the same marginal addition,
? A few lines before the number was six hundred. Both numbers come to the same, for ciphers do not count.
8 Here it is not added that Gautami cum suis has to change sex (i.e. gender) in order to be fit for Bodhisattvaship. In fact, the Kritikâs are always feminine in Sanskrit. • Burnouf has read, ten hundred thousand myriads of konis.
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