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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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AJITASENA-VYAKARAŅAM Ā: What will be the fate of those who will speak ill of this dharmaparyāya?
Bh.: Enough, Ananda, do not ask me about the great sins that will be incurred by them; I cannot enumerate them, nor can the koțis of Buddhas.
Ā: Tell them, O Bhagavā, O Sugata.
Bh.: Then listen, Ananda, they will undergo immense sufferings for ages by having their birth in the great hells of Raurava, Hāhaha and Avici, or in the Yamaloka, animal-world or spiritworld. If they are born as human beings, they will have long and dry palate and throat (dirgha-śuska-tālukantha), their tongues will be 12 yojanas long, and with their aid they will declare that those who will speak ill of the dharmaparyāya will fare like them.
Ā: How will this excellent dharma be destroyed?
Bh.: In future, there will be some who will rebuke, speak ill of and even injure the reciters or repositories of the sūtras, to whom they will bear hatred. Their demerits will be much more than those who extract the eyes of all the beings of the three thousand world. So also will be the demerits of those who will bear hatred towards the repositories or reciters of the sūtras.
Ananda then said that many sūtras had been heard by him but none like this. Then in verses he said, “I shall remember and preach this sūtra and protect it from the hands of the revilers.”
Then the Mahāśrāvakas Kāśyapa, Sāriputra, Pūrna Maitrāyaniputra uttered verses eulogizing the sūtra and its preacher the Buddha, and promised to preach it. They were followed by Brahmā Sahampati, who also took the vow to protect the sūtra. This is the Ajitasena-vyākarana-nirdeśa-nāma-mahāyānasutram.
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