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1“ Anuvyafigana; they have been thoroughly treated of by Burnouf in an Appendix to the Lotus, p. 583 seq.; cf. Hodgson’s Essays, p. go, and S. Hardy’s Manual, p. 369. * Vais&radya; Burnouf, Lotus, p. 396; S. Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 291. XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 247 properties, magical power, ability to save beings in all directions of space,—all this (have I got) after having come to Devadatta. I announce to you, monks, I declare to you: This Devadatta, the monk, shall in an age to come, after immense, innumerable AZons, become a Tathagata named Devaraga (i.e. King of the gods), an Arhat, &c., in the world Devasopana (i.e. Stairs of the gods). The lifetime of that Tath4gata Devaraga, monks, shall measure twenty intermediate kalpas. He shall preach the law in extension, and beings equal to the sands of the river Ganges shall through him forsake all evils and realise Arhatship. Several beings shall also elevate their minds to Pratyekabuddhaship, whereas beings equal to the sands of the river Ganges shall elevate their minds to supreme, perfect enlightenment, and become endowed with unflinching patience. Further, monks, after the complete extinction of the Tathagata Devaraga, his true law shall stay twenty intermediate kalpas. His body shall not be seen divided into different parts (and relics); it shall remain as one mass within a Stdpa of seven precious substances, which Stdpa is to be sixty hundred yoganas in height and forty yoganas in extension’. All, gods and men, shall do worship to it with flowers, incense, perfumed garlands, unguents, powder, clothes, umbrellas, banners, flags, and celebrate it with stanzas and songs. Those who shall turn round that Stdpa from left to right or humbly salute it, shall some of them realise Arhatship, others attain Pratyekabuddhaship ; others, gods and men, in immense number, shall raise their minds to supreme, perfect enlightenment, never to return. / 1 Ay4mena, which also means length. 248 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. Thereafter the Lord again addressed the assembly of monks: Whosoever in future, monks, be he a young man or a young lady of good family, shall hear this chapter of the Stra of the Lotus of the True Law, and by doing so be relieved from doubt, become pure-minded, and put reliance on it, to such a one the door of the three states of misfortune shall be shut: he shall not fall so low as to be born in hell, among beasts, or in Yama’s kingdom. When born.in the Buddha-fields in the ten points of space he shall at each repeated birth hear this very Satra, and when born amongst gods or men he shall attain an eminent rank. And in the Buddha-field where he is to be born he shall appear by metamorphosis on a lotus of seven precious substances, face to face with the Tathagata.
2And in the Buddha-field where he is to be born he shall appear by metamorphosis on a lotus of seven precious substances, face to face with the Tathagata. At that moment a Bodhisattva of the name of Prag#ak(a, having come from beneath the Buddhafield of the Tathagata Prabhdtaratna, said to the Tathagata Prabhdtaratna: Lord, let us resort to our own Buddha-field. But the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, said to the Bodhisattva Prag#dktéa : Wait a while, young man of good family, first have a discussion with my Bodhisattva Mazgusrt, the prince royal, to settle some point of the law. And at the same moment, lo, Mazgusrt, the prince royal, rose seated on a centifolious lotus that was large as a carriage yoked with four horses, surrounded and attended by many Bodhisattvas, from the bosom of the sea, from the abode of the Naga-king Sagara (i.e. Ocean). Rising high into the sky he went through the air to the Gvzdhrakfa mountain to the presence of the Lord. There Maggusri, the prince royal, alighted from his lotus, reverentially saluted XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 249 the feet of the Lord Sékyamuni and Prabhdtaratna, the Tathagata, went up to the Bodhisattva Prag#akd¢a and, after making the usual complimentary questions as to his health and welfare, seated himself at some distance. The Bodhisattva Prag#4kdéa then addressed to Mazgusri, the prince royal, the following question: Mazgusrt, how many beings hast thou educated! during thy stay in the sea? Maggusrt answered: Many, innumerable, incalculable beings have I educated, so innumerable that words cannot express it, nor thought conceive it. Wait a while, young man of good family, thou shalt presently see a token. No sooner had Maggusrt, the prince royal, spoken these words than instantaneously many thousands of lotuses rose from the bosom of the sea up to the sky, and on those lotuses were seated many thousands of Bodhisattvas, who flocked through the air to the Gvzdhrakita mountain, where they stayed, appearing as meteors. All of them had been educated by Maggusri, the prince royal, to supreme, perfect enlightenment? The Bodhisattvas amongst them who had formerly striven after the great vehicle extolled the virtues of the great vehicle and the six perfect virtues (Pa4ramités). Such as had been disciples extolled the vehicle of disciples. But all acknowledged the voidness (or vanity) of all laws (or things), as well as the virtues of the great vehicle. Mazgusri, the prince royal, said to the Bodhisattva Prag#akia : Young man of good family, while I was staying in the bosom of the great ocean I have by all means 1 Properly, lead, lead out. ? Here Mafigusri appears in the character of Hermes puxoropnds. 250 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. educated creatures, and here thou seest the result. Whereupon the Bodhisattva Prag#akdta questioned Maagusrt, the prince royal, in chanting the following stanzas :
3? Here Mafigusri appears in the character of Hermes puxoropnds. 250 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. educated creatures, and here thou seest the result. Whereupon the Bodhisattva Prag#akdta questioned Maagusrt, the prince royal, in chanting the following stanzas : 47- O thou blessed one, who from thy wisdom art called the Sage', by whose power is it that thou to-day (or now) hast educated those innumerable beings? Tell it me upon my question, O thou god amongst men? 48. What law hast thou preached, or what Satra, in showing the path of enlightenment, so that those who are there with you have conceived the idea of enlightenment ? that, once having gained a safe ford’, they have been decisively established in omniscience ? Maggusrt answered: In the bosom of the sea I have expounded the Lotus of the True Law and no other Stra. Prag#4ki/a said: That Sdtra is profound, subtle, difficult to seize ; no other Sdtra equals it. Is there any creature able to understand this jewel of a Sftra or to arrive at supreme, perfect enlightenment? Mazigusrt replied: There is, young man of good family, the daughter of Sagara, the Naga-king, eight years old, very intelligent, of keen faculties, endowed with prudence in acts of body, speech, and mind, who has caught and kept all the teachings, in substance and form, of the Tathagatas, who has acquired in one moment a thousand meditations and proofs of the essence of all Jaws*. She 1 Mahdabhadra pragfay4 sfraniman. I take sfira in the sense of sri, though it is also possible that sQra stands for sfira, a hero. * Naradeva. S’ Labdhagath4/; I think we have to read labdhag4dh4&4, and have translated accordingly. ‘ The reading is uncertain; sarvadharmasatvasam4dh4nasam4- XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 251 does not swerve from the idea of enlightenment, has great aspirations, applies to other beings the same measure as to herself; she is apt to display all virtues and is never deficient in them. With a bland smile on the face and in the bloom of an extremely handsome appearance she speaks words of kindliness and compassion!. She is fit to arrive at supreme, perfect enlightenment. The Bodhisattva Prag#kffa said: I have seen how the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, when he was striving after enlightenment, in the state of a Bodhisattva, performed innumerable good works?, and during many /Eons never slackened in his arduous task. In the whole universe there is not a single spot so small as a mustard-seed where he has not surrendered his body for the sake of creatures’, Afterwards he arrived at enlightenment. Who then would believe that she should have been able to arrive at supreme, perfect knowledge in one moment ? At that very moment appeared the daughter of Sagara, the N4ga-king, standing before their face. After reverentially saluting the feet of the Lord she stationed herself at some distance and uttered on that occasion the following stanzas:
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.
1“ Anuvyafigana; they have been thoroughly treated of by Burnouf in an Appendix to the Lotus, p. 583 seq.; cf. Hodgson’s Essays, p. go, and S. Hardy’s Manual, p. 369. * Vais&radya; Burnouf, Lotus, p. 396; S. Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 291. XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 247 properties, magical power, ability to save beings in all directions of space,—all this (have I got) after having come to Devadatta. I announce to you, monks, I declare to you: This Devadatta, the monk, shall in an age to come, after immense, innumerable AZons, become a Tathagata named Devaraga (i.e. King of the gods), an Arhat, &c., in the world Devasopana (i.e. Stairs of the gods). The lifetime of that Tath4gata Devaraga, monks, shall measure twenty intermediate kalpas. He shall preach the law in extension, and beings equal to the sands of the river Ganges shall through him forsake all evils and realise Arhatship. Several beings shall also elevate their minds to Pratyekabuddhaship, whereas beings equal to the sands of the river Ganges shall elevate their minds to supreme, perfect enlightenment, and become endowed with unflinching patience. Further, monks, after the complete extinction of the Tathagata Devaraga, his true law shall stay twenty intermediate kalpas. His body shall not be seen divided into different parts (and relics); it shall remain as one mass within a Stdpa of seven precious substances, which Stdpa is to be sixty hundred yoganas in height and forty yoganas in extension’. All, gods and men, shall do worship to it with flowers, incense, perfumed garlands, unguents, powder, clothes, umbrellas, banners, flags, and celebrate it with stanzas and songs. Those who shall turn round that Stdpa from left to right or humbly salute it, shall some of them realise Arhatship, others attain Pratyekabuddhaship ; others, gods and men, in immense number, shall raise their minds to supreme, perfect enlightenment, never to return. / 1 Ay4mena, which also means length. 248 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. Thereafter the Lord again addressed the assembly of monks: Whosoever in future, monks, be he a young man or a young lady of good family, shall hear this chapter of the Stra of the Lotus of the True Law, and by doing so be relieved from doubt, become pure-minded, and put reliance on it, to such a one the door of the three states of misfortune shall be shut: he shall not fall so low as to be born in hell, among beasts, or in Yama’s kingdom. When born.in the Buddha-fields in the ten points of space he shall at each repeated birth hear this very Satra, and when born amongst gods or men he shall attain an eminent rank. And in the Buddha-field where he is to be born he shall appear by metamorphosis on a lotus of seven precious substances, face to face with the Tathagata.
2And in the Buddha-field where he is to be born he shall appear by metamorphosis on a lotus of seven precious substances, face to face with the Tathagata. At that moment a Bodhisattva of the name of Prag#ak(a, having come from beneath the Buddhafield of the Tathagata Prabhdtaratna, said to the Tathagata Prabhdtaratna: Lord, let us resort to our own Buddha-field. But the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, said to the Bodhisattva Prag#dktéa : Wait a while, young man of good family, first have a discussion with my Bodhisattva Mazgusrt, the prince royal, to settle some point of the law. And at the same moment, lo, Mazgusrt, the prince royal, rose seated on a centifolious lotus that was large as a carriage yoked with four horses, surrounded and attended by many Bodhisattvas, from the bosom of the sea, from the abode of the Naga-king Sagara (i.e. Ocean). Rising high into the sky he went through the air to the Gvzdhrakfa mountain to the presence of the Lord. There Maggusri, the prince royal, alighted from his lotus, reverentially saluted XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 249 the feet of the Lord Sékyamuni and Prabhdtaratna, the Tathagata, went up to the Bodhisattva Prag#akd¢a and, after making the usual complimentary questions as to his health and welfare, seated himself at some distance. The Bodhisattva Prag#4kdéa then addressed to Mazgusri, the prince royal, the following question: Mazgusrt, how many beings hast thou educated! during thy stay in the sea? Maggusrt answered: Many, innumerable, incalculable beings have I educated, so innumerable that words cannot express it, nor thought conceive it. Wait a while, young man of good family, thou shalt presently see a token. No sooner had Maggusrt, the prince royal, spoken these words than instantaneously many thousands of lotuses rose from the bosom of the sea up to the sky, and on those lotuses were seated many thousands of Bodhisattvas, who flocked through the air to the Gvzdhrakita mountain, where they stayed, appearing as meteors. All of them had been educated by Maggusri, the prince royal, to supreme, perfect enlightenment? The Bodhisattvas amongst them who had formerly striven after the great vehicle extolled the virtues of the great vehicle and the six perfect virtues (Pa4ramités). Such as had been disciples extolled the vehicle of disciples. But all acknowledged the voidness (or vanity) of all laws (or things), as well as the virtues of the great vehicle. Mazgusri, the prince royal, said to the Bodhisattva Prag#akia : Young man of good family, while I was staying in the bosom of the great ocean I have by all means 1 Properly, lead, lead out. ? Here Mafigusri appears in the character of Hermes puxoropnds. 250 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. educated creatures, and here thou seest the result. Whereupon the Bodhisattva Prag#akdta questioned Maagusrt, the prince royal, in chanting the following stanzas :
3? Here Mafigusri appears in the character of Hermes puxoropnds. 250 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XI. educated creatures, and here thou seest the result. Whereupon the Bodhisattva Prag#akdta questioned Maagusrt, the prince royal, in chanting the following stanzas : 47- O thou blessed one, who from thy wisdom art called the Sage', by whose power is it that thou to-day (or now) hast educated those innumerable beings? Tell it me upon my question, O thou god amongst men? 48. What law hast thou preached, or what Satra, in showing the path of enlightenment, so that those who are there with you have conceived the idea of enlightenment ? that, once having gained a safe ford’, they have been decisively established in omniscience ? Maggusrt answered: In the bosom of the sea I have expounded the Lotus of the True Law and no other Stra. Prag#4ki/a said: That Sdtra is profound, subtle, difficult to seize ; no other Sdtra equals it. Is there any creature able to understand this jewel of a Sftra or to arrive at supreme, perfect enlightenment? Mazigusrt replied: There is, young man of good family, the daughter of Sagara, the Naga-king, eight years old, very intelligent, of keen faculties, endowed with prudence in acts of body, speech, and mind, who has caught and kept all the teachings, in substance and form, of the Tathagatas, who has acquired in one moment a thousand meditations and proofs of the essence of all Jaws*. She 1 Mahdabhadra pragfay4 sfraniman. I take sfira in the sense of sri, though it is also possible that sQra stands for sfira, a hero. * Naradeva. S’ Labdhagath4/; I think we have to read labdhag4dh4&4, and have translated accordingly. ‘ The reading is uncertain; sarvadharmasatvasam4dh4nasam4- XI. APPARITION OF A STOPA. 251 does not swerve from the idea of enlightenment, has great aspirations, applies to other beings the same measure as to herself; she is apt to display all virtues and is never deficient in them. With a bland smile on the face and in the bloom of an extremely handsome appearance she speaks words of kindliness and compassion!. She is fit to arrive at supreme, perfect enlightenment. The Bodhisattva Prag#kffa said: I have seen how the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, when he was striving after enlightenment, in the state of a Bodhisattva, performed innumerable good works?, and during many /Eons never slackened in his arduous task. In the whole universe there is not a single spot so small as a mustard-seed where he has not surrendered his body for the sake of creatures’, Afterwards he arrived at enlightenment. Who then would believe that she should have been able to arrive at supreme, perfect knowledge in one moment ? At that very moment appeared the daughter of Sagara, the N4ga-king, standing before their face. After reverentially saluting the feet of the Lord she stationed herself at some distance and uttered on that occasion the following stanzas:
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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