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1On arriving at the place where the Lord was, they humbly saluted his 1 fdrist kshazasampad. * I.e. means whereby (all) evils are abandoned by all creatures. ° Sarvabuddhasthan4ni; in the margin added the word for ‘secret.’ XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 425 feet, circumambulated him three times from left to right and took their stand at some distance. Then, young men of good family, the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c., perceiving the king Subhavydha, who had arrived with his retinue, instructed, roused, excited, and comforted him with a sermon. And the king Subhavydha, young men of good family, after he had been well and duly instructed, roused, excited,andcomforted by the sermon of the Lord, was so content, glad, ravished, joyful, rejoiced, and delighted, that he put his diadem on the head of his younger brother and established him in the government, whereafter he himself with his sons, kinsmen, and retinue, as well as the queen Vimaladatta and her numerous train of women, the two young princes accompanied by forty-two! thousand living beings went all together and unanimously forth from home to embrace the houseless life, prompted as they were by their faith in the preaching of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the TathAgata, &c. Having become an ascetic, the king Subhavydtha, with his retinue, remained for eighty-four thousand years applying himself to studying, meditating, and thoroughly penetrating this Dharmapary4ya of the Lotus of the True Law. At the end of those eightyfour thousand years, young men of good family, the king Subhavyfha acquired the meditation termed Sarvagu#alankaéravyiha*. No sooner had he ac- 1 Burnouf has eighty-four, but this must be a faulty reading, because the number of forty-two agrees with that given above. * I.e. collocation (or disposition) of the ornaments of all good qualities, 426 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. - XXv. quired that meditation, than he rose seven Tals up to the sky, and while staying in the air, young men of good family, the king Subhavyfiha said to the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitébhig#a, the Tathagata, &c.: My two sons, O Lord, are my masters, since it is owing to the miracle produced by their magical power that I have been diverted from that great heap of false doctrines, been established in the command of the Lord, brought to full ripeness in it, introduced to it, and exhorted to see the Lord. They have acted as true friends to me, O Lord, those two young princes who as sons were born in my house, certainly to remind me of my former roots of goodness.
2They have acted as true friends to me, O Lord, those two young princes who as sons were born in my house, certainly to remind me of my former roots of goodness. At these words the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigaa, the Tathagata, &c., spoke to the king Subhavydha: It is as thou sayest, noble king. Indeed, noble king, such young men or young ladies of good family as possess roots of goodness, will in any existence, state, descent, rebirth or place? easily find true friends, who with them shall perform the task of a master ?, who shall admonish, introduce, fully prepare them to obtain supreme and perfect enlightenment. It is an exalted position, noble king, the office of a true friend who rouses (another) to see the Tathagata. Dost thou see these two young princes, noble king? I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, said the king. The Lord . } Bhavagatifyutyupapatty4yataneshu. Burnouf must have read bhagavaékyu® or something like it, for he translates: ‘qui sont nés dans les lieux od se sont accomplies la naissance et la mort d’un Bienheureux.’ * Le. of a teacher, sAstrzkrityena. XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 427 proceeded : Now, these two young gentlemen, noble king, will pay worship to sixty-five (times the number of) Tath4gatas, &c., equal to the sands of the Ganges; they will keep this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law, out of compassion for beings who hold false doctrines, and with the aim to produce in those beings an earnest striving after the right doctrine. Thereupon, young men of good family, the king Subhavydha came down from the sky, and, having raised his joined hands, said to the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigza, the Tathagata, &c.: Please, Lord, deign to tell me, what knowledge the Tath4gata is possessed of, so that the protuberance on his head is shining ; that the Lord’s eyes are so clear; that between his brows the Ura (circle of hair) is shining, resembling in whiteness the moon; that in his mouth a row of equal and close-standing teeth is glittering; that the Lord has lips red as the Bimba and such beautiful eyes. As the king Subhavydha, young men of good family, had celebrated the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c., by enumerating so manygood qualities and hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of other good qualities besides, he said to the Lord Galadharagarg itaghoshasusvaranakshatrara gasankusumitabhigna, the Tathagata, &c.: It is wonderful, O Lord, how valuable the Tath4gata’s teaching is, and with how many inconceivable virtues the religious discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata is attended; how beneficial the moral precepts proclaimed by the Tathagata are. From henceforward, O Lord, we will no 428 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXV.
3From henceforward, O Lord, we will no 428 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXV. more be slaves to our own mind; no more be slaves to false doctrine; no more slaves to rashness; no more slaves to the sinful thoughts arising in us. Being possessed of so many good qualities, O Lord, I do not wish to go away from the presence of the Lord}. After humbly saluting the feet of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigza, the Tathagata, &c., the king rose up to the sky and there stood. Thereupon the king Subhavydha and the queen Vimaladatt4 from the sky, threw a pearl necklace worth a hundred thousand (gold pieces) upon the Lord; and that pearl necklace no sooner came down upon the head of the Lord than it assumed the shape of a tower with four columns, regular, well-constructed, and beautiful. On the summit of the tower appeared a couch covered with many hundred thousand pieces of fine cloth, and on the couch was seen the image of a Tathagata sitting cross-legged. Then the following thought presented itselfto the king Subhavytha: The Buddha-knowledge must be very powerful, and the Tathagata endowed with inconceivable good qualities that this Tathagataimage shows itself on the summit of the tower, (an image) so nice, beautiful, possessed of an extreme abundance of good colours. Then the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrar4gasankusumitabhigia, the Tathagata, &c., addressed the four classes 1 Here I have followed Burnouf’s reading ; the Cambridge MS. has: ebhir aham Bhagavann iyadbhir akusalair dharmai4 samanvagato ne&khimi Bhagavato ’ntikam (sic) upasamkramitum, i.e. being possessed of so many unholy qualities, O Lord, I do (or did) not wish to approach the Lord. XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 429
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.
1On arriving at the place where the Lord was, they humbly saluted his 1 fdrist kshazasampad. * I.e. means whereby (all) evils are abandoned by all creatures. ° Sarvabuddhasthan4ni; in the margin added the word for ‘secret.’ XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 425 feet, circumambulated him three times from left to right and took their stand at some distance. Then, young men of good family, the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c., perceiving the king Subhavydha, who had arrived with his retinue, instructed, roused, excited, and comforted him with a sermon. And the king Subhavydha, young men of good family, after he had been well and duly instructed, roused, excited,andcomforted by the sermon of the Lord, was so content, glad, ravished, joyful, rejoiced, and delighted, that he put his diadem on the head of his younger brother and established him in the government, whereafter he himself with his sons, kinsmen, and retinue, as well as the queen Vimaladatta and her numerous train of women, the two young princes accompanied by forty-two! thousand living beings went all together and unanimously forth from home to embrace the houseless life, prompted as they were by their faith in the preaching of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the TathAgata, &c. Having become an ascetic, the king Subhavydtha, with his retinue, remained for eighty-four thousand years applying himself to studying, meditating, and thoroughly penetrating this Dharmapary4ya of the Lotus of the True Law. At the end of those eightyfour thousand years, young men of good family, the king Subhavyfha acquired the meditation termed Sarvagu#alankaéravyiha*. No sooner had he ac- 1 Burnouf has eighty-four, but this must be a faulty reading, because the number of forty-two agrees with that given above. * I.e. collocation (or disposition) of the ornaments of all good qualities, 426 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. - XXv. quired that meditation, than he rose seven Tals up to the sky, and while staying in the air, young men of good family, the king Subhavyfiha said to the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitébhig#a, the Tathagata, &c.: My two sons, O Lord, are my masters, since it is owing to the miracle produced by their magical power that I have been diverted from that great heap of false doctrines, been established in the command of the Lord, brought to full ripeness in it, introduced to it, and exhorted to see the Lord. They have acted as true friends to me, O Lord, those two young princes who as sons were born in my house, certainly to remind me of my former roots of goodness.
2They have acted as true friends to me, O Lord, those two young princes who as sons were born in my house, certainly to remind me of my former roots of goodness. At these words the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigaa, the Tathagata, &c., spoke to the king Subhavydha: It is as thou sayest, noble king. Indeed, noble king, such young men or young ladies of good family as possess roots of goodness, will in any existence, state, descent, rebirth or place? easily find true friends, who with them shall perform the task of a master ?, who shall admonish, introduce, fully prepare them to obtain supreme and perfect enlightenment. It is an exalted position, noble king, the office of a true friend who rouses (another) to see the Tathagata. Dost thou see these two young princes, noble king? I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, said the king. The Lord . } Bhavagatifyutyupapatty4yataneshu. Burnouf must have read bhagavaékyu® or something like it, for he translates: ‘qui sont nés dans les lieux od se sont accomplies la naissance et la mort d’un Bienheureux.’ * Le. of a teacher, sAstrzkrityena. XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 427 proceeded : Now, these two young gentlemen, noble king, will pay worship to sixty-five (times the number of) Tath4gatas, &c., equal to the sands of the Ganges; they will keep this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law, out of compassion for beings who hold false doctrines, and with the aim to produce in those beings an earnest striving after the right doctrine. Thereupon, young men of good family, the king Subhavydha came down from the sky, and, having raised his joined hands, said to the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigza, the Tathagata, &c.: Please, Lord, deign to tell me, what knowledge the Tath4gata is possessed of, so that the protuberance on his head is shining ; that the Lord’s eyes are so clear; that between his brows the Ura (circle of hair) is shining, resembling in whiteness the moon; that in his mouth a row of equal and close-standing teeth is glittering; that the Lord has lips red as the Bimba and such beautiful eyes. As the king Subhavydha, young men of good family, had celebrated the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c., by enumerating so manygood qualities and hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of other good qualities besides, he said to the Lord Galadharagarg itaghoshasusvaranakshatrara gasankusumitabhigna, the Tathagata, &c.: It is wonderful, O Lord, how valuable the Tath4gata’s teaching is, and with how many inconceivable virtues the religious discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata is attended; how beneficial the moral precepts proclaimed by the Tathagata are. From henceforward, O Lord, we will no 428 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXV.
3From henceforward, O Lord, we will no 428 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXV. more be slaves to our own mind; no more be slaves to false doctrine; no more slaves to rashness; no more slaves to the sinful thoughts arising in us. Being possessed of so many good qualities, O Lord, I do not wish to go away from the presence of the Lord}. After humbly saluting the feet of the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatraragasankusumitabhigza, the Tathagata, &c., the king rose up to the sky and there stood. Thereupon the king Subhavydha and the queen Vimaladatt4 from the sky, threw a pearl necklace worth a hundred thousand (gold pieces) upon the Lord; and that pearl necklace no sooner came down upon the head of the Lord than it assumed the shape of a tower with four columns, regular, well-constructed, and beautiful. On the summit of the tower appeared a couch covered with many hundred thousand pieces of fine cloth, and on the couch was seen the image of a Tathagata sitting cross-legged. Then the following thought presented itselfto the king Subhavytha: The Buddha-knowledge must be very powerful, and the Tathagata endowed with inconceivable good qualities that this Tathagataimage shows itself on the summit of the tower, (an image) so nice, beautiful, possessed of an extreme abundance of good colours. Then the Lord Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrar4gasankusumitabhigia, the Tathagata, &c., addressed the four classes 1 Here I have followed Burnouf’s reading ; the Cambridge MS. has: ebhir aham Bhagavann iyadbhir akusalair dharmai4 samanvagato ne&khimi Bhagavato ’ntikam (sic) upasamkramitum, i.e. being possessed of so many unholy qualities, O Lord, I do (or did) not wish to approach the Lord. XXV. ANCIENT DEVOTION. 429
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