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V, 25.
So, when they see this mighty host, that once
were dazed With the mud of sin, swept down in Dhamma's
stream, and left In the wide sea of the Good-Law, some here,
some there, All, gods and men alike, plunged in ambrosial
waves, They may infer, and say: 'How great that
Dhamma is!' (8) (347] “ As when men, travelling, feel a glorious
perfume sweet Pervading all the country side, and gladdening
them, infer at once, 'Surely, 'tis giant forest trees are flowering
now!' So, conscious of this perfume sweet of righteous
ness That now pervades the earth and heavens,
they may infer: A Buddha, infinitely great, must once have
lived!” 25. 'And it would be possible, O king, to show forth the Buddha's greatness, by a hundred or a thousand such examples, such reasons, such arguments, such metaphors. Just, o king, as a clever garland maker will, from one heap of all kinds of flowers, both following the instruction of his teacher, and also using his own individuality as a man, make many variegated and beautiful bouquets,—just so, O king, that Blessed One is, as it were, an infinite, immeasurable, heap of variegated flowers of virtue. And I now, a garland maker, as it were in the
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