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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SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA.
XXV.
more be slaves to our own mind; no more be slaves to false doctrine; no more slaves to rashness; no more slaves to the sinful thoughts arising in us. Being possessed of so many good qualities, O Lord, I do not wish to go away from the presence of the Lord 1.
After humbly saluting the feet of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitâbhigña, the Tathagata, &c., the king rose up to the sky and there stood. Thereupon the king Subhavyûha and the queen Vimaladattâ from the sky, threw a pearl necklace worth a hundred thousand (gold pieces) upon the Lord; and that pearl necklace no sooner came down upon the head of the Lord than it assumed the shape of a tower with four columns, regular, well-constructed, and beautiful. On the summit of the tower appeared a couch covered with many hundred thousand pieces of fine cloth, and on the couch was seen the image of a Tathagata sitting cross-legged. Then the following thought presented itself to the king Subhavyûha: The Buddha-knowledge must be very powerful, and the Tathagata endowed with inconceivable good qualities that this Tathâgataimage shows itself on the summit of the tower, (an image) so nice, beautiful, possessed of an extreme abundance of good colours. Then the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrarågasankusumitâbhigña, the Tathagata, &c., addressed the four classes
· Here I have followed Burnouf's reading; the Cambridge MS. has: ebhir aham Bhagavann iyadbhir akusalair dharmaih saman vâgato nekkhâmi Bhagavato 'ntikam (sic) upasamkramitum, i.e. being possessed of so many unholy qualities, O Lord, I do (or did) not wish to approach the Lord.
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