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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INTRODUCTORY.
Upananda', the venerable Sundara-Nanda, the venerable Parna Maitrayantputra, the venerable Subhati, the venerable Râhula ; with them yet other great disciples, as the venerable Ananda, still under training, and two thousand other monks, some of whom still under training, the others masters; with six thousand nuns having at their head Mahâpragâpatis, and the nun Yasodharà, the mother of Rahula, along with her train; (further) with eighty thousand Bodhisattvas, all unable to slide back *, endowed with the spells of supreme, perfect enlightenment, firmly standing in wisdom; who moved onward the never deviating 5 wheel of the law; who had propitiated many hundred thousands of Buddhas; who under many hundred thousands of Buddhas had planted the roots of goodness, had been intimate with many hundred thousands of Buddhas, were in body and mind fully penetrated with the feeling of charity; able in communicating the wisdom of the Tathagatas ; very wise, having reached the perfection of wisdom ; renowned in many hundred thousands of worlds ; having saved many hundred thousand myriads of kotis? of beings; such as the Bodhisattva Mahâ
Surnamed Säkyaputra; Mahâvagga I, 52. ? Known from Lalita-vistara, p. 164; Burnouf has Sunanda. * Gautamî, the aunt of Gautama Buddha. • Or, to swerve from their course. 5 Or, never rolling back.
• I have followed Burnouf in translating nayuta by ten thousand; this being the value of the Sanskrit term ayuta. According to the Petersburg Dictionary the Northern Buddhists attach to nayuta the value of 100,000 millions. The Pali nahuta is said to be a vast number, one followed by twenty-eight ciphers; but in Spence Hardy's Manual of Buddhism, p. 193, its worth is put down at a myriad. 7 I. e. ten millions.
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