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CHAPTER FIVE middle wall. Seated on the Master's foot-stool while the congregation remained there, Cakrāyudha, the head of the gañadharas, delivered a sermon. He stopped preaching at the end of the second watch; and the gods, et cetera, went to their respective places after they had bowed to the Master.
Śāsanadevatās (373–376) Originating in that congregation, the Yaksa Garuda, black, whose vehicle was an elephant, boar-faced, whose two right hands held a citron and a lotus, whose two left hands held an ichneumon and a rosary, became Sri Santi Svāmin's messenger-deity. Originating in that congregation, Nirvāṇi, fair-bodied, with a lotus-seat, her two right hands holding a book and a blue lotus, her two left ones a water-jar and lotus, also became the messengerdeity of the Lord of the World
The Blessed One, with them always nearby, devoted to others, wandered over the earth to enlighten the souls capable of emancipation. One day he came to the city Hastināpura as he wandered, and the Blessed One, the depository of compassion, stopped in a samavasaraņa. The lord of the city, Kurucandra, accompanied by people of the city and country, approached the Master, like the moon approaching the sun on the night of the new moon. 386 While the fourfold congregation remained in their proper places, the Lord delivered a sermon causing disgust with worldly existence.
Story of Kurucandra (381-532)366 At the end of the sermon Kurucandra bowed to the Lord and said: “By what act in a former birth, Master, did I acquire this kingdom? By what act in a former birth, Master, are the five wonderful things, fruit, et
885 379. When they meet. . 866 This story occurs in the Kathākośa, pp. 70ff. and the Kathāsaritsāgara, Book XIII, Penzer, Vol. VIII.
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