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XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHÂGATAS. 365
Bodhisattvas spread in all directions in hundred thousands of worlds, and while on every side stationed in the sky preached the law. Just as the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., produced a miracle of magic by his tongue, so, too, Prabhàtaratna, the Tathagata, &c., and the other Tathagatas, &c., who, having flocked from hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of other worlds, were seated on thrones at the foot of jewel trees, by their tongues produced a miracle of magic.
The Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and all those Tathagatas, &c., produced that magical effect during fully a thousand years. After the lapse of that millennium those Tathâgatas, &c., pulled back their tongue, and all simultaneously, at the same moment, the same instant, made a great noise as of expectoration and of snapping the fingers, by which sounds all the hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Buddha-fields in every direction of space were moved, removed, stirred, wholly stirred, tossed, tossed forward, tossed along, and all beings in all those Buddha-fields, gods, Nagas, goblins, Gandharvas, demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men, and beings not human beheld, by the power of the Buddha, from the place where they stood, this Saha-world. They beheld the hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Tathagatas seated severally on their throne at the foot of a jewel tree, and the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathågata, &c., wholly extinct, sitting on the throne in the centre of the
1 Burnouf has a hundred thousand.' • Utkâsana, better osana.
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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 |