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1as the seven kind of instruments yield, when well played upon, to the skilful man, a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and in- toxicating — just even so, Ananda, when those rows of palm trees were shaken by the wind, there arose a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and intoxicating. 9. 'And whoever, Ananda, in the royal city Kusfivatl were at that time gamblers, drunkards, and given to drink, they used to dance round to- gether to the sound of those palms when shaken by the wind. 10. 4 The Great King of Glory, Ananda, was the a possessor of Seven Precious Things, and was gifted with Four Marvellous Powers/ ' What are those seven ? ' 11. 14 In the first place, Ananda, when the Great King of Glory, on the Sabbath day 2 , on the day of strings of bells in that Buddha country are moved by the wind, a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds from them. Yes, O «S3ri- putra, as from a heavenly musical instrument consisting of a hun- dred thousand ko/is of sounds, when played by Aryas, a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds ; a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds from those rows of palm trees and strings of bells moved by the wind. ' And when the men there hear that sound, reflection on Buddha arises in their body, reflection on the Law, reflection on the Assembly.' Compare also below, § 81, and G&taka I, 32. 1 The following enumeration is found word for word in several other Pali Suttas, and occurs also, in almost identical terms, in the Lalita Vistara (Calcutta edition, pp. 14-19). 8 Uposatha, a weekly sacred day; being full-moon day, new- moon day, and the two equidistant intermediate days. Comp. § 21. 252 THE GREAT KING OF GLORY. CH. the full moon, had purified himself, and had gone up into the upper story of his palace to keep the sacred day, there then appeared to him the heavenly Treasure of the Wheel 1 , with its nave, its tire, and all its thousand spokes complete, 12. 'When he beheld it the Great King of Glory thought : 4 " This saying have I heard, 1 When a king of the warrior race, an anointed king, has purified himself on the Sabbath day, on die day of the full moon, and has gone up into the upper story of his palace to keep the sacred day; if there appear to him the heavenly Treasure of the Wheel, with its nave, its tire, and all its thousand spokes complete — that king becomes a king of kings invincible/ May I, then, become a king of kings invincible 2 ." 13. 'Then, Ananda, the Great King of Glory rose from his seat, and reverently uncovering from one shoulder his robe, he held in his left hand a pitcher, and with his right hand he sprinkled water up over the Wheel, as he said : ' " Roll onward, O my Lord, the Wheel ! O my Lord, go forth and overcome!" 14. 'Then the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, rolled onwards towards the region of the East, and after it went the Great King of Glory 8 , and with him his 1 -Afakka-ratana/w, where the £akka is the disk of the sun.
2as he said : ' " Roll onward, O my Lord, the Wheel ! O my Lord, go forth and overcome!" 14. 'Then the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, rolled onwards towards the region of the East, and after it went the Great King of Glory 8 , and with him his 1 -Afakka-ratana/w, where the £akka is the disk of the sun. 2 ^Takkavattird^l 8 Atha kho £akka-ratana/rc puratthimaw disam pavatti anvad eva ra^& Mah&sudassano, &c. Here anvad must be the Sanskrit anva#£. The Lalita Vistara has anveti in the corresponding passage, and the (Phayre Burmese) MS. here reads anud eva. The verb in the second clause must be supplied, as I. mahA-sudassana sutta. 253 army, horses, and chariots, and elephants, and men. And in whatever place, Ananda, the Wheel stopped, there the Great King of Glory took up his abode, and with him his army, horses, and chariots, and elephants, and men. 15. 'Then, Ananda, all the rival kings in the region of the East came to the Great King of Glory and said : 4 44 Come, O mighty king ! Welcome, O mighty king! All is thine, O mighty king! Do thou, O mighty king, be a Teacher to us ! " 10. 4 Thus spake the Great King of Glory : 4 44 Ye shall slay no living thing. 4 44 Ye shall not take that which has not been given. 4 44 Ye shall not act wrongly touching the bodily desires. 4 4 4 Ye shall speak no lie. 4 44 Ye shall drink no maddening drink. 4 44 Ye shall eat as ye have eaten \" 17. 4 Then, Ananda, all the rival kings in the region of the East became subject unto the Great King of Glory. 1 8. 4 But the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, having plunged down into the great waters in the East, rose up out again, and rolled onward, to the region of the South [and there all happened as had hap- is the case in the one or two other passages where I have met with this phrase. 1 Yath&bhuttaw bhu/^atha. Buddhaghosa has no comment on this. I suppose it means, 'Observe the rules current among you regarding clean and unclean meats/ If so, the Great King of Glory disregards the teaching of the Amagandha Sutta, quoted in 'Buddhism,' p. 131. 254 THE GREAT KING OF GLORY. CH. pened in the region of the East. And in like manner the wondrous Wheel rolled onward to the extremest boundary of the West and of the North ; and there, too, all happened as had happened in the region of the East]. 19. ' Now when the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, had gone forth conquering and to conquer o'er the whole earth to its very ocean boundary, it returned back again to the royal city of Kus£vatt and re- mained fixed on the open terrace in front of the entrance to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory, as a glorious adornment to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory. 20. ' Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Wheel which appeared to the Great King of Glory. 21.
3ty of Kus£vatt and re- mained fixed on the open terrace in front of the entrance to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory, as a glorious adornment to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory. 20. ' Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Wheel which appeared to the Great King of Glory. 21. 1 Now further, Ananda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Elephant Treasure 1 , all white, sevenfold firm 2 , wonderful in power, flying through the sky — the Elephant-King, whose name was " The Changes of the Moon 8 ." 22. 'When he beheld it the Great King of Glory was pleased at heart at the thought : 1 Hatthi-ratana. 2 Satta-ppatittho, that is, perhaps, in regard to its four legs, two tusks, and trunk. The expression is curious, and Buddha- ghosa has no note upon it. It is quite possible that it merely sig- nifies ' exceeding firm/ the number seven being used without any hard and fast interpretation. 8 Uposatho. In the Lalita Vistara its name is 'Wisdom' (Bodhi). Uposatha is the name for the sacred day of the moon's changes — first, and more especially the full-moon day; next, the new-moon day; and lastly, the days equidistant between these two. It was therefore a weekly sacred day, and, as Childers says, may often be well rendered ' Sabbath.' I. MAHA-SUDASSANA SUTTA. 255 * " Auspicious were it to ride upon that Elephant, if only it would submit to be controlled ! " 23. 'Then, Ananda, the wondrous Elephant — like a fine elephant of noble blood long since well trained — submitted to control. 24. ' When as before, Ananda, the Great King of Glory, to test that wondrous Elephant, mounted on to it early in the morning, it passed over along the broad earth to its very ocean boundary, and then returned again, in time for the morning meal, to the royal city of Kusfivatl \ 25. 4 Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Elephant that appeared to the Great King of Glory. 26. * Now further, Ananda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Horse Treasure 2 , all white with a black head, and a dark mane, wonderful in power, flying through the sky — the Charger-King, whose name was " Thunder-cloud V 27. ' When he beheld it, the Great King of Glory was pleased at heart at the thought : ' " Auspicious were it to ride upon that Horse if only it would submit to be controlled ! " 28. 'Then, Ananda, the wondrous Horse — like 1 Compare on this and § 29 my 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. 85, where a similar phrase is used of Kanthaka. 2 Assa-ratanaw. 8 Valahako. Compare the Valdhassa Gataka (FausbSll, No. 196, called in the Burmese MS. Valahakassa G&taka), of which the Chinese story translated by Mr. Beal at pp. 332-340 of his ' Romantic History/ &c, is an expanded and altered version.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1as the seven kind of instruments yield, when well played upon, to the skilful man, a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and in- toxicating — just even so, Ananda, when those rows of palm trees were shaken by the wind, there arose a sound sweet, and pleasant, and charming, and intoxicating. 9. 'And whoever, Ananda, in the royal city Kusfivatl were at that time gamblers, drunkards, and given to drink, they used to dance round to- gether to the sound of those palms when shaken by the wind. 10. 4 The Great King of Glory, Ananda, was the a possessor of Seven Precious Things, and was gifted with Four Marvellous Powers/ ' What are those seven ? ' 11. 14 In the first place, Ananda, when the Great King of Glory, on the Sabbath day 2 , on the day of strings of bells in that Buddha country are moved by the wind, a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds from them. Yes, O «S3ri- putra, as from a heavenly musical instrument consisting of a hun- dred thousand ko/is of sounds, when played by Aryas, a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds ; a sweet and enrapturing sound proceeds from those rows of palm trees and strings of bells moved by the wind. ' And when the men there hear that sound, reflection on Buddha arises in their body, reflection on the Law, reflection on the Assembly.' Compare also below, § 81, and G&taka I, 32. 1 The following enumeration is found word for word in several other Pali Suttas, and occurs also, in almost identical terms, in the Lalita Vistara (Calcutta edition, pp. 14-19). 8 Uposatha, a weekly sacred day; being full-moon day, new- moon day, and the two equidistant intermediate days. Comp. § 21. 252 THE GREAT KING OF GLORY. CH. the full moon, had purified himself, and had gone up into the upper story of his palace to keep the sacred day, there then appeared to him the heavenly Treasure of the Wheel 1 , with its nave, its tire, and all its thousand spokes complete, 12. 'When he beheld it the Great King of Glory thought : 4 " This saying have I heard, 1 When a king of the warrior race, an anointed king, has purified himself on the Sabbath day, on die day of the full moon, and has gone up into the upper story of his palace to keep the sacred day; if there appear to him the heavenly Treasure of the Wheel, with its nave, its tire, and all its thousand spokes complete — that king becomes a king of kings invincible/ May I, then, become a king of kings invincible 2 ." 13. 'Then, Ananda, the Great King of Glory rose from his seat, and reverently uncovering from one shoulder his robe, he held in his left hand a pitcher, and with his right hand he sprinkled water up over the Wheel, as he said : ' " Roll onward, O my Lord, the Wheel ! O my Lord, go forth and overcome!" 14. 'Then the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, rolled onwards towards the region of the East, and after it went the Great King of Glory 8 , and with him his 1 -Afakka-ratana/w, where the £akka is the disk of the sun.
2as he said : ' " Roll onward, O my Lord, the Wheel ! O my Lord, go forth and overcome!" 14. 'Then the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, rolled onwards towards the region of the East, and after it went the Great King of Glory 8 , and with him his 1 -Afakka-ratana/w, where the £akka is the disk of the sun. 2 ^Takkavattird^l 8 Atha kho £akka-ratana/rc puratthimaw disam pavatti anvad eva ra^& Mah&sudassano, &c. Here anvad must be the Sanskrit anva#£. The Lalita Vistara has anveti in the corresponding passage, and the (Phayre Burmese) MS. here reads anud eva. The verb in the second clause must be supplied, as I. mahA-sudassana sutta. 253 army, horses, and chariots, and elephants, and men. And in whatever place, Ananda, the Wheel stopped, there the Great King of Glory took up his abode, and with him his army, horses, and chariots, and elephants, and men. 15. 'Then, Ananda, all the rival kings in the region of the East came to the Great King of Glory and said : 4 44 Come, O mighty king ! Welcome, O mighty king! All is thine, O mighty king! Do thou, O mighty king, be a Teacher to us ! " 10. 4 Thus spake the Great King of Glory : 4 44 Ye shall slay no living thing. 4 44 Ye shall not take that which has not been given. 4 44 Ye shall not act wrongly touching the bodily desires. 4 4 4 Ye shall speak no lie. 4 44 Ye shall drink no maddening drink. 4 44 Ye shall eat as ye have eaten \" 17. 4 Then, Ananda, all the rival kings in the region of the East became subject unto the Great King of Glory. 1 8. 4 But the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, having plunged down into the great waters in the East, rose up out again, and rolled onward, to the region of the South [and there all happened as had hap- is the case in the one or two other passages where I have met with this phrase. 1 Yath&bhuttaw bhu/^atha. Buddhaghosa has no comment on this. I suppose it means, 'Observe the rules current among you regarding clean and unclean meats/ If so, the Great King of Glory disregards the teaching of the Amagandha Sutta, quoted in 'Buddhism,' p. 131. 254 THE GREAT KING OF GLORY. CH. pened in the region of the East. And in like manner the wondrous Wheel rolled onward to the extremest boundary of the West and of the North ; and there, too, all happened as had happened in the region of the East]. 19. ' Now when the wondrous Wheel, Ananda, had gone forth conquering and to conquer o'er the whole earth to its very ocean boundary, it returned back again to the royal city of Kus£vatt and re- mained fixed on the open terrace in front of the entrance to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory, as a glorious adornment to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory. 20. ' Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Wheel which appeared to the Great King of Glory. 21.
3ty of Kus£vatt and re- mained fixed on the open terrace in front of the entrance to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory, as a glorious adornment to the inner apartments of the Great King of Glory. 20. ' Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Wheel which appeared to the Great King of Glory. 21. 1 Now further, Ananda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Elephant Treasure 1 , all white, sevenfold firm 2 , wonderful in power, flying through the sky — the Elephant-King, whose name was " The Changes of the Moon 8 ." 22. 'When he beheld it the Great King of Glory was pleased at heart at the thought : 1 Hatthi-ratana. 2 Satta-ppatittho, that is, perhaps, in regard to its four legs, two tusks, and trunk. The expression is curious, and Buddha- ghosa has no note upon it. It is quite possible that it merely sig- nifies ' exceeding firm/ the number seven being used without any hard and fast interpretation. 8 Uposatho. In the Lalita Vistara its name is 'Wisdom' (Bodhi). Uposatha is the name for the sacred day of the moon's changes — first, and more especially the full-moon day; next, the new-moon day; and lastly, the days equidistant between these two. It was therefore a weekly sacred day, and, as Childers says, may often be well rendered ' Sabbath.' I. MAHA-SUDASSANA SUTTA. 255 * " Auspicious were it to ride upon that Elephant, if only it would submit to be controlled ! " 23. 'Then, Ananda, the wondrous Elephant — like a fine elephant of noble blood long since well trained — submitted to control. 24. ' When as before, Ananda, the Great King of Glory, to test that wondrous Elephant, mounted on to it early in the morning, it passed over along the broad earth to its very ocean boundary, and then returned again, in time for the morning meal, to the royal city of Kusfivatl \ 25. 4 Such, Ananda, was the wondrous Elephant that appeared to the Great King of Glory. 26. * Now further, Ananda, there appeared to the Great King of Glory the Horse Treasure 2 , all white with a black head, and a dark mane, wonderful in power, flying through the sky — the Charger-King, whose name was " Thunder-cloud V 27. ' When he beheld it, the Great King of Glory was pleased at heart at the thought : ' " Auspicious were it to ride upon that Horse if only it would submit to be controlled ! " 28. 'Then, Ananda, the wondrous Horse — like 1 Compare on this and § 29 my 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. 85, where a similar phrase is used of Kanthaka. 2 Assa-ratanaw. 8 Valahako. Compare the Valdhassa Gataka (FausbSll, No. 196, called in the Burmese MS. Valahakassa G&taka), of which the Chinese story translated by Mr. Beal at pp. 332-340 of his ' Romantic History/ &c, is an expanded and altered version.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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