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XXV.
ANCIENT DEVOTION.
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feet, circumambulated him three times from left to right and took their stand at some distance.
Then, young men of good family, the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitâbhigña, the Tathagata, &c., perceiving the king Subhavyâha, who had arrived with his retinue, instructed, roused, excited, and comforted him with a sermon. And the king Subhavyûha, young men of good family, after he had been well and duly instructed, roused, excited, and comforted by the sermon of the Lord, was so content, glad, ravished, joyful, rejoiced, and delighted, that he put his diadem on the head of his younger brother and established him in the government, whereafter he himself with his sons, kinsmen, and retinue, as well as the queen Vimaladatta and her numerous train of women, the two young princes accompanied by forty-two thousand living beings went all together and unanimously forth from home to embrace the houseless life, prompted as they were by their faith in the preaching of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrarågasankusumitâbhigña, the Tathagata, &c. Having become an ascetic, the king Subhavyuha, with his retinue, remained for eighty-four thousand years applying himself to studying, meditating, and thoroughly penetrating this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law. At the end of those eightyfour thousand years, young men of good family, the king Subhavyûha acquired the meditation termed Sarvagunâlankâravyûha?. No sooner had he ac
Burnouf has eighty-four, but this must be a faulty reading, because the number of forty-two agrees with that given above.
* I. e. collocation (or disposition) of the ornaments of all good qualities.
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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 |