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SADDHARMA-PUN
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are the monks here before me,-no less than five hundred,-nuns, and female lay devotees?
10. All of them have been by me brought to complete ripeness, and after my extinction they will all, full of wisdom, keep this Satra.
11. Not once in many, inconceivably many kotis of Æons has such a Satra as this been heard. There are, indeed, hundreds of kotis of Buddhas, but they do not elucidate this Satra.
12. Therefore let one who has heard this law exposed by the Self-born himself, and who has repeatedly propitiated him, promulgate this Satra after my extinction in this world.
1 The text has u pasikâh.
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