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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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BHAISAJYA-GURU-SOTRA Women with child will, by uttering his name, feel no pain at the time of giving birth to the child, and the baby will be healthy, good-looking and intelligent.”
This is followed by a conversation of Buddha with Ānanda about the credibility of the results enumerated above brought about by merely hearing or uttering the name of Bhaișajyaguru. As usual Ananda dares not say anything against it and expresses his deep conviction in the same, pitying the evil lot of those who would not believe it.
After Ananda, there appears one Trāṇamukta bodhisattva who enquires whether in future beings lying senseless on their death-bed when Yamarāja is taking stock of his merits and demerits can be revived by his relatives by making him hear the name of Bhaisajyaguru and performing the worship of the Tathāgata. He is given an answer in the affirmative, along with an account of the method of worship. The worship is to be performed more elaborately by setting up seven images and so forth.
Ananda now raises the questions about the troubles of the ruling kings and the possibility of their removal by uttering the name of Bhaisajyaguru.
This is followed by a conversation between Ananda and Trānamukta bodhisattva about the various causes of death.'
At last, appear the rākṣasas, whose chiefs were Kimca, Vajra, Sanila, Indraloka, Pāyila, Vidala, etc. who promised to utter the name of Bhaisajyaguru, take the three śaranas and the vow to preach the Sūtra everywhere.
The Sūtra is concluded with a discussion about the suitability of its title. Thus ends the Bhaisajyaguru-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra.
1 See ante, p. 53, para 3.
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