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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XXVI. ENCOURAGEMENT OF SAMANTABHADRA.
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sattvarutakausalyânugate simhavikridite? The Bodhisattva Mahâsattva, whose organ of hearing is struck by these talismanic words, Lord, shall be aware that the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Samantabhadra is their ruling power 2.
Further, Lord, the Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas to whom this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law shall be entrusted, as long as it continues having course in Gambudvipa, those preachers, Lord, should take this view : It is owing to the power and grandeur of the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Samantabhadra that this Dharmaparyâya has been entrusted to us. Those creatures who shall write and keep this Sútra, O Lord, are to partake of the course of duty of the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Samantabhadra; they will belong to those who have planted good roots under many Buddhas, O Lord, and whose heads are caressed by the hands of the Tathagata. Those who shall write and keep this Satra, O Lord, will afford me pleasure. Those who shall write this Satra, O Lord, and comprehend it, shall, when they disappear from this world, after having written it, be reborn in the company of the
1 In Burnouf's translation we find added : anuvarte vartani vartali svâhâ. All terms are, or ought to be,vocatives of feminine words in the singular. Pati, as in Páli pagâ pati, Buddhistic Sansk.pragâpati, interchanges with the ending vatî; not only in pragâvati (e. g. in Lalita-vistara), but in some of the words occurring in the spell; so for dandapati the Tibetan text has dandâ vati. As Siva in Mahabhârata XII, 10361 is represented as the personified Danda, we may hold that all the names above belong to Siva's female counterpart, Durga. The epithet of Simhavikriditâ is but a variation of Simhikâ, one of the names of Dakshầyani or Durgâ in her quality of mother to Rahu. Cf. the remarks on the spells in chap. XXI.
• As the presiding deity of lightning he is also the lord of flame, of Svâhâ, identified with Dâkshầyanî-Durgå.
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