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meditation Sarvarūpasandarsana, and as to the number of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas of this Saha-world obtaining the meditation Sarvardpasandarsana, it was beyond calculation.
Then the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Gadgadasvara, after having paid great and ample worship to the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and at the Stapa of relics of the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c., again mounted the tower made of seven precious substances, among the stir of the fields, the rain of lotuses, the noise of hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of musical instruments, and with the eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas surrounding and following him, returned to his own Buddha-field. At his arrival there he said to the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatrarâgasarkusumitâbhigña, the Tathagata, &c. : O Lord, I have in the Saha-world promoted the weal of creatures; I have seen and saluted the Stapa of relics of the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathāgata, &c.; I have seen and saluted the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; I have seen Mañgusri, the prince royal, as well as the Bodhisattva Bhaishagyarâga, who is possessed of mighty knowledge and impetuosity, and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Pradanasura ; and these eightyfour hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhi
1 After a last effort the storm subsides.
: This quality stamps Bhaishagyarâga as Rudra; cf. Rig-veda UI, 33, 7. He is essentially the same with Dhanvantari the physician, Arcitenens Apollo. He is, moreover, the same with Gadgadasvara, who is represented as breath of life. About the system of splitting up one natural phenomenon or abstraction into more beings, see p. 4, note.
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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 |