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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KALPA SÚTRA.
The Arhat Arishtanemi had eighteen Ganas and eighteen Ganadharas. (175)
The Arhat Arishtanemi had an excellent community of eighteen thousand Sramanas with Varadatta at their head; (176) forty thousand nuns with Arya Yakshini at their head; (177) one hundred and sixtynine thousand lay votaries with Nanda at their head; (178) three hundred and thirty-six thousand female lay votaries with Mahâsuvratâ at their head; (179) four hundred sages who knew the fourteen Parvas, &c.; (180) fifteen hundred sages who were possessed of the Avadhi knowledge; fifteen hundred Kevalins; fifteen hundred sages who could transform themselves; one thousand sages of vast intellect; eight hundred professors; sixteen hundred sages in their last birth; fifteen hundred male and three thousand female disciples who had reached perfection.
The Arhat Arishtanemi instituted, &c. (see § 146, down to) the former ended in the eighth generation, the latter in the twelfth year of his Kevaliship. (181)
In that period, in that age the Arhat Arishtanemi lived three centuries as a prince, fifty-four days in a state inferior to perfection, something less than seven centuries as a Kevalin, full seven centuries as a Sramana, a thousand years on the whole. When his fourfold Karman was exhausted and in this Avasarpini era a great part of the Duhshamasushamâ period had elapsed, in the fourth month of summer, in the eighth fortnight, the light (fortnight) of Ashâdha, on its eighth day, in the middle of the night when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Kitrâ, (Arishtanemi), after fasting a month
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