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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SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA.
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attached beautiful triumphal streamers at the top of the banner staffs? in honour of the Leaders whom they celebrate in thousands of stanzas.
15. Such a marvellous, extraordinary, prodigious, splendid? phenomenon, O Leader, is being displayed by all those beings who are gladdened by the exposition of the duration of life (of the Tathagata).
16. Grand is the matter now (occurring) in the ten points of space, and (great) the sound raised by the Leaders; thousands of kotis of living beings are refreshed and gifted with virtue for enlightenment.
Thereupon the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya : Those beings, Agita, who during the exposition of this Dharmaparyaya in which the duration of the Tathagata's life is revealed have entertained, were it but a single thought of trust, or have put belief in it, how great a merit are they to produce, be they young men and young ladies of good family ? Listen then, and mind it well, how great the merit is they shall produce. Let us sup pose the case, Agita, that some young man or young lady of good family, desirous of supreme, perfect enlightenment, for eight hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Æons practises the five perfections of virtue (Paramitas), to wit, perfect charity in alms, perfect morality, perfect forbearance, perfect energy, perfect meditation-perfect wisdom being excepteds;
* Dhva gâgre; a marginal reading has dhvagâm ka (sic).
? Etâdrisaskarya visishtam adbhutâh (r. adbhutam), vikitra darsent' ima(m) adya Nayaka.
Virahitah pragñâpâramitâyâ(k). The five specified virtues are identical with those enumerated in Lalita-vistara, p. 38, and slightly different from those as found in the Páli scriptures. (ut of the five virtues, four, viz. sila, kshanti, virya, dhyâna, answer to
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