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KULLAVAGGA.
IX, 1, 4.
Sarabhů, and the Mahi—they, when they have fallen into the great ocean, renounce their names and lineage, and are reckoned thenceforth as the great ocean. This is the fourth [of such qualities).
Again, O Bhikkhus, though all the streams in the world flow on till they reach the great ocean, and all the waters of the sky fall into it, yet does it not thereby seem to be the more empty or more full. This is the fifth (of such qualities].
Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt. This is the sixth (of such qualities).
*Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean is full of gems, of gems of various kinds; among which are these gems—that is to say, the pearl, the diamond, the catseye, the chank, rock, coral, silver, gold, the ruby, and the cornelian". This is the seventh (of such qualities).
'Again, O Bhikkhus, the great ocean is the dwelling-place of mighty beings, among which are these—that is to say, the Timi, the Timingala, the Timitimingala, the Asuras, the Nâgas, and the Gandhabbas. There are in the great ocean creatures so constituted that they stretch from one to five hundred leagues 2. This is the eighth [of such qualities].
4. 'And just in the same way, O Bhikkhus, there are in this doctrine and discipline eight marvellous and wonderful qualities, by the constant perception
1 On these gems, compare Rh. D.'s note on the Maha-sudassana Sutta I, 4, in Buddhist Suttas from the Pâli,' pp. 249, 250.
. On this belief, compare above, VII, 2, 2, of land creatures, where the same term, attabhāva, is used.
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