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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XXII. ANCIENT DEVOTION OF BHAISHAGYARÂGA. 377
Sugata, &c. &c. Now that Tathagata, &c., Kandravimalasdryaprabhâsasri had a great assembly of eighty kotis? of Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas and an assembly of disciples equal to the sands of seventytwo Ganges rivers. His spiritual rule was exempt from the female sex, and his Buddha-field had no hell, no brute creation, no ghosts, no demons; it was level, neat, smooth as the palm of the hand. Its floor consisted of heavenly lapis lazuli, and it was adorned with trees of jewel and sandal-wood; inlaid with a multitude of jewels, and hung with long bands of silk, and scented by censors made of jewels. Under each jewel tree, at a distance not farther than a bowshot, was made a small jewel-house, and on the top of those small jewel-houses stood a hundred kotis of angels performing a concert of musical instruments and castanets, in order to honour the Lord Kandravimalasûryaprabhâsasri, the Tathagata, &c., while that Lord was extensively expounding this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law to the great disciples and Bodhisattvas, directing himselfs to the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Sarvasattvapriyadarsana. Now, Nakshatrarågasankusumitâbhigña, the lifetime of that Lord Kandravimalasdryaprabhâsasrt, the Tathagata, &c., lasted forty-two thousand Æons, and likewise that of the Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas and great disciples. It was under the spiritual rule of that Lord that the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Sarva
· Thus Camb. MS.; Burnouf has eighty hundred thousand myriads of kotis.
s Ratnadhamaka. I am not certain of the correctness of my translation; Burnouf renders it by.char fait de pierreries.'
• Sarvasatvapriyadarsanam-adhishthânam kritva; Burnouf has en commençant par le B.M. S.'
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