Saddharma Pundarika

Author(s): H Kern
Publisher: Oxford

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SADDHARMA-PUNDARÍKA.
II.
of Buddha and done thei rduty under many kotis of Buddhas will I make known amplified Satras.
50. For they are endowed with such gifts of mental disposition and such advantages of a blameless outward form that I can announce to them: in future ye shall become Buddhas benevolent and compassionate.
51. Hearing which, all of them will be pervaded with delight (at the thought): We shall become Buddhas pre-eminent in the world. And I, perceiving their conduct, will again reveal amplified Satras.
52. And those are the disciples of the Leader, who have listened to my word of command. One single stanza learnt or kept in memory suffices, no doubt of it, to lead all of them to enlightenment.
53. There is, indeed, but one vehicle; there is no second, nor a third anywhere in the world, apart from the case of the Purushottamas using an expedient to show that there is a diversity of vehicles.
54. The Chief of the world appears in the world to reveal the Buddha-knowledge. He has but one aim, indeed, no second; the Buddhas do not bring over (creatures) by an inferior vehicle.
55. There where the self-born one has established himself, and where the object of knowledge is, of whatever form or kind; (where) the powers, the stages of meditation, the emancipations, the perfected faculties (are); there the beings also shall be established. 56. I should be guilty of envy, should I, after
The text has: tathāhi te asaya sampadâhi visuddharðpåyasamanvità 'bhût. This abhùt is rather an unhappy attempt at Sanskritising a Prakrit ahum or ahu, than a singular used for a plural. Sampad and âya are nearly synonymous terms.
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