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the body must perform penance which has emancipation as its fruit. The wise man should extract what is valuable from the worthless, like a jewel from the salt ocean."
Many persons were enlightened by this sermon of the Lord and became mendicants by the thousand. The Lord had ninety-three gaṇabhrts, Datta, etc. They made the twelve angas from the three steps,' origination, etc. At the end of the Lord's sermon, Datta, chief of the gañabhrts, to whom enlightenment had been given, seated on his footstool, delivered a sermon to the people. At the end of his sermon, the gods, etc., went to their own abodes, like young people of the city when a concert is finished.
Sāsanadevatās (108-110) The Yakşa, Vijaya, originating in that congregation, green, with a hansa for a vehicle, holding a cakra in his right hand and a hammer in his left; and the goddess Bhrkuți, with a marāla for a vehicle, yellow, holding a sword and a hammer in her right hands, and a shield and an axe in her left hands, became the Blessed One's messenger-deities. With them near at hand, Lord Candraprabha, the receptacle of the supernatural powers, wandered over the earth, like the moon the sky.
His congregation (111-115) Two hundred and fifty thousand monks, three hundred and eighty thousand nuns, two thousand who knew the pūrvas, eight thousand who had clairvoyant knowledge, and the same number who had mind-reading knowledge, ten thousand who were omniscient, fourteen thousand who had the art of transformation, seventy-six hundred disputants, two hundred and fifty thousand laymen, four hundred and ninety-one thousand laywomen formed the Lord's retinue.
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