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SADÂPARIBHOTA.
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many hundred thousand myriads of kotis of other Buddhas, obtained under all of them this very Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law, and owing to his former root of goodness having come to full development, gained supreme, perfect enlightenment. Perhaps, Mahâsthâmaprapta, thou wilt have some doubt, uncertainty, or misgiving, and think that he who at that time, at that juncture was the Bodhisattva Mahasattva called Sadâ paribhata was one, and he who under the rule of that Lord Bhishmagargitasvararåga, the Tathagata, &c., was generally called Sadâparibhūta by the four classes, by whom so many Tathagatas were propitiated, was another. But thou shouldst not think so. For it is myself who at that time, at that juncture was the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Sadâ paribhata. Had I not formerly grasped and kept this Dharmaparyaya, Mahasthâmaprâpta, I should not so soon have arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment. It is because I have kept, reắd, preached this Dharmaparyâya (derived) from the teaching of the ancient Tathagatas, &c., Mahâsthamaprâpta, that I have so soon arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment. As to the hundreds of monks, nuns, male and female lay devotees, Mahậsthâmaprâpta, to whom under that Lord the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Sadâparibhůta promulgated this Dharmaparyâya by saying: I do not contemn you; you all observe the course of duty of Bodhisattvas; you are to become Tathagatas, &c., and in whom awoke a feeling of malignity towards that Bodhisattva, they in twenty hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Æons never saw a Tathagata, nor heard the call of the law, nor the call of the assembly, and for ten thousand: Æons they suffered terrible pain in 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 |