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'Such a vast number of gods have been mobilised against me. On my side, there is no one-neither my parents, brothers or kinsmen. So the ten päramitás are like my own relations. So I must make a shield of them for my own protection and throw the same as my weapon, and in this manner, I must finish my adversaries'.
The Buddha invoked the ten pāramitās to come to his aid and sat tight on his seat. Mára started his onslaught to disolodge him from this place. He caused him troubles which were as follows:
He started a severe dust storm. The summits of mountains were separated and these began to fly, trees were uprooted; towns and villages lost their trace. But the Buddha sat unperturbed. As the moving storm reached the proximity of the Buddha, it had already lost its rigour, and not even a corner of his garment was disturbed.
ted to drown, so very sharpus. The flood
Having failed to harm him with the dust storm, Mara attempted to drown him in heavy downpour. The streaks of water were so very sharp that they bored the earth with holes at many places. The floodwater reached the top of the trees in the forest; but the Buddha's garment did not receive even as much exposure as in a mist.
'He started a shower of pebbles. Even big rocks emitting smoke, even whole summits blazing with fire came floating through the sky, but no sooner did they reach the vicinity of the Buddha than they changed into boquets of flowers.
This was followed by a shower of arms - one-edged weapons, two-edged weapons, swords, spears, arrows and many others incessantly disgorging fire, but no sooner did they reach the vicinity of the Buddha than they changed into heavenly flowers.
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Then he started the shower of burning charcoal. Hot and red charcoal incessantly dropped from the sky, but on the Buddha's feet, they scattered like flowers.
