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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 2 Ch. 5
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A. 47. Gautama ! What the heretics say,...till establish is incorrect. Repeat all (as said by Gautama). Now, Gautama, I say, ordain, declare and establish that outside the city of Rājagțha, in the proximity of the Vaibhāra hill, there is a spring named Mahātapopatīra-prabhava80 which is 500 dhanușas square (i.e., on each side), and whose other extreme is decorated with many species of trees, which is beautiful, delightful, worth-seeing, graceful and pleasing to the eyes of all visitors. Souls capable of living in hot region and matter together take shape (therein) as water-bodies, and they also die there, and undergo transformation and assimilation (there). When it is full, there is a steady outflow of water from it. That is a spring named Mahātapopatira-prabhava, and that is the implication (full story) of this spring named Mahātapopatira-prabhava.
सेवं भंते ! सेवं भंते ! ति भगवं गोयमे समणं भगवं महावीरं दइ F'S...Ta faptei
Bhante ! So it is. Glory be to the Lord ! So saying Gautama paid homage and obeisance to the Lord and withdrew to his seat.
(THT JETHI AFATI Chapter five ends
