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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XXV.
ANCIENT DEVOTION.
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(and asked): Do you see, monks, the king Subhavydha who, standing in the sky, is emitting a lion's roar ? They answered: We do, Lord. The Lord proceeded: This king Subhavydha, monks, after having become a monk under my rule shall become a Tathagata in the world, by the name of Sâlendraråga", endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c., in the world Vistîrnavati; his epoch shall be called Abhyudgatarâga. That Tathagata Sâlendraråga, monks, the Arhat, &c., shall have an immense congregation of Bodhisattvas, an immense congregation of disciples. The said world Vistirnavati shall be level as the palm of the hand, and consist of lapis lazuli. So he shall be an inconceivably great Tathagata, &c. Perhaps, young men of good family, you will have some doubt, uncertainty or misgiving (and think) that the king Subhavyûha at that time, that juncture was another. But you must not think so; for it is the very same Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Padmasrt here present, who at that time, that juncture was the king Subhavydha. Perhaps, young men of good family, you will have some doubt, uncertainty or misgiving (and think) that the queen Vimaladatta at that time, that juncture was another. But you must not think so; for it is the very same Bodhisattva Mahâsattva called Vairokanarasmipratimanditaraga?, who at that time, that juncture was the queen Vimaladattâ, and who out of compassion for the king Subhavyûha and the creatures had assumed
Also written Sälendrarâga. In the Calcutta edition of the Lalita-vistara, p. 201, l. 12, he occurs as Sarendraråga, but Hodgson, Essays, p. 33, in a list drawn from the same work, has Sâlendraraga.
• Burnouf's reading has dhvaga for râga.
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