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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
SARVATATHAGATADHIȘTHANAVYUHAM asks why the present sūtra is called Sarvatathāgatādhisthānasattvāvalokana-buddhakşetrasandarśana-vyūha and then puts a few other incidental questions, which Buddha answers, by gāthās.
Section IV-Arya Avalokiteśvara comes with another dhārani called Vyavalokana-prātihārya; the reason for its inclusion is that it speaks of sattvādhisthāna or sattvävalokana and that by reading and writing this dhārani all the merits described before by the Tathāgatas are acquired.
Section V–The Vyavalokana-prātihārya is followed by three other dhāranis with descriptions of their respective rites given by Anopamā Mahāyakșini, Sankhini Mahādevi, and 'Bhimā Mahādevi. All these are meant to confer benefits, or protect those beings who will read, write or propagate this Sūtra.
Section VI—This section deals with the merits acquired by studying and propagating the Sūtra, and the suitability of its title.
Various Points of Interest When Vidyāvāridhi Sivanātha Šāstrī, the learned pandit of H. H. the Maharaja of Kashmir, commenced in collaboration with myself the transcription of this ms., our first impression was that 123 leaves of the ms. had been lost, as the page number began with 124. On a comparison, however, of this Ms. with its Tibetan version, it appeared that the ms. lacked only two leaves, i.e., nos. 122 and 123. From the numbering of the leaves i.e. from 122 and not from 1, it seems that the present ms. was preceded by another ms. which is lost and bore these page-numbers. Our ms, represents the last part (folios 395-426) of the second (kla) volume of the Tibetan Kanjur mDo. This Tibetan bundle contains four sūtras, of which the first is the Lalitavistara (1-329), the second Mañjuśri-vikridita nāma mahāyāna-sūtra, the third Mañjuśri-vikurvāṇa and the fourth Sarva-tathāgatādhisthāna-vyūha.
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