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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1(He said): But, Gautamt, thou hast received a prediction with the prediction regarding the whole assembly. Indeed, Gautami, thou shalt from henceforward, before the face of thirty-eight 1 Ciphers do not count, so that only six must be reckoned. These six with Gautamf form the number of seven. The seven Matres or Mother-goddesses are known from Indian mythology. Kumara, the prince royal (Skanda), is sometimes said to have six mothers, sometimes seven, sometimes one. The six are said to be the six clearly visible Krittik4s (Pleiads); the seventh is the less distinct star of the Pleiads. His one mother is Durg&. It is by mistake that the dictionaries fix the number of Krittikas at six; there are seven, as appears e.g. from Mahabharata III, 230, 11. XI. EXERTION. 257 hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Buddhas’, be a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law. These six thousand? nuns also, partly perfected in discipline, partly not, shall along with others become Bodhisattvas® and preachers of the law before the face of the Tathagatas. Afterwards, when thou shalt have completed the course of a Bodhisattva, thou shalt become, under the name of Sarvasattvapriyadarsana (i.e. lovely to see for all beings), a Tathdgata, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c. And that Tathagata Sarvasattvapriyadarsana, O Gautami, shall give a prediction by regular succession to those six thousand’ Bodhisattvas concerning their destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment. Then the nun Yasodhar4, the mother of R4hula, thought thus: The Lord has not mentioned my name. And the Lord comprehending in his own mind what was going on in the mind of the nun Yasodharé said to her: I announce to thee, Yasodhar4, I declare to thee : Thou also shalt before the face of ten thousand kof¢is‘ of Buddhas become a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law, and after regularly completing the course of a Bodhisattva thou shalt become a Tathagata, named Rasmisatasahasraparipirzadhvaga, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c., in the 1 In the margin has been added by a later hand: ‘after paying honour, respect, reverence, worship, and veneration.’ A little further on we find the same marginal addition. 3 A few lines before the number was six hundred. Both numbers come to the same, for ciphers do not count. * Here it is not added that Gautami cum suis has to change sex (i.e. gender) in order to be fit for Bodhisattvaship. In fact, the Krittikas are always feminine in Sanskrit. * Burnouf has read, ten hundred thousand myriads of koAs. [21] Ss 258 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xu. world Bhadra; and the lifetime of that Lord Rasmisatasahasraparipirzadhvaga shall be unlimited. When the noble matron Gautamt, the nun, with her suite of six thousand nuns, and Yasodharé, the nun, with her suite of four thousand nuns, heard from the Lord their future destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment, they uttered, in wonder and amazement, this stanza :
2When the noble matron Gautamt, the nun, with her suite of six thousand nuns, and Yasodharé, the nun, with her suite of four thousand nuns, heard from the Lord their future destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment, they uttered, in wonder and amazement, this stanza : 1. O Lord, thou art the trainer, thou art the leader; thou art the master of the world, including the gods; thou art the giver of comfort, thou who art worshipped by men and gods. Now, indeed, we feel satisfied. After uttering this stanza the nuns said to the Lord: We also, O Lord, will exert ourselves to divulge this Dharmapary4ya in the last days, though in other worlds. Thereafter the Lord looked towards the eighty hundred thousand Bodhisattvas who were gifted with magical spells and capable of moving forward the wheel that never rolls back. No sooner were those Bodhisattvas regarded by the Lord than they rose from their seats, raised their joined hands towards the Lord and reflected thus: The Lord invites us to make known the Dharmaparydya. Agitated by that thought they asked one another: What shall we do, young men of good family, in order that this Dharmaparyaya may in future be made known as the Lord invites us to do? Thereupon those young men of good family, in consequence of their reverence for the Lord and their own pious vow in their previous course, raised a lion’s roar? before the Lord: We, O Lord, will in future, after the ? One might say, a cry of martial exultation. xi. EXERTION. 259 complete extinction of the Lord, go in all directions in order that creatures shall write, keep, meditate, — divulge this Dharmaparyd4ya, by no other’s power but the Lord’s. And the Lord, staying in another world, shall protect, defend, and guard us. Then the Bodhisattvas unanimously in a chorus addressed the Lord with the following stanzas : 2. Be at ease,O Lord. After thy complete extinction, in the horrible last period of the world, we will proclaim this sublime Satra. 3. We will suffer, patiently endure, O Lord, the injuries, threats, blows and threats with sticks! at the hands of foolish men, 4. At that dreadful last epoch men will be malign, crooked, wicked, dull, conceited, fancying to have come to the limit when they have not. 5. ‘We do not care but to live in the wilderness and wear a patched cloth; we lead a frugal life;’ so will they speak to the ignorant?. 6. And persons greedily attached to enjoyments will preach the law to laymen and be honoured as if they possessed the six transcendent qualities. 7. Cruel-minded and wicked men, only occupied with household cares, will enter our retreat in the forest and become our calumniators. 8. The Tirthikas’, themselves bent on profit and honour, will say of us that we are so, and—shame on such monks !—they will preach their own fictions‘. * Danda-udgirana, for which I think we have to read dandaudgfraza, ? Durmatin. * Dissenters, as the foremost of whom generally appear the Gainas, from the Buddhist point of view.
3* Danda-udgirana, for which I think we have to read dandaudgfraza, ? Durmatin. * Dissenters, as the foremost of whom generally appear the Gainas, from the Buddhist point of view. ‘ Tirthika vat’ ime bhikshf svani kAvy4ni desayu#. Here S 2 260 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XII. 9. Prompted by greed of profit and honour they will compose Sfitras of their own invention and then, in the midst of the assembly, accuse us of plagiarism’. 10. To kings, princes, king’s peers, as well as to Brahmans and commoners, and to monks of other confessions, 11. They will speak evil of us and propagate the Tirtha-doctrine*. We will endure all that out of reverence for the great Seers. 12. And those fools who will not listen to us, shall (sooner or later) become enlightened?, and therefore will we forbear to the last. 13. In that dreadful, most terrible period of frightful general revolution will many fiendish monks stand up as our revilers. 14. Out of respect for the Chief of the world we will bear it, however difficult it be; girded with the girdle of forbearance will I* proclaim this Satra. 15. I§ do not care for my body or life, O Lord, we have the interjection vata (bata) in the sense of a nind4, reproach, contempt. The Buddhists are fond of denouncing schismatics or heretics as impostors, and their works as forgeries ; a model of such an accusation brought forward by the orthodox against the ‘wicked’ monks, the Vaggiputtakas, is to be found in Dipavamsa V, 30 seqq. 1 Or, perhaps, speak slander of us. The term used, anuku//ana, is unknown to me from other passages, so that I have had recourse to etymology: anu, after, ku//an4, stamping. ® These passages are not very explicit, but this much is clear that the Tirthikas are somehow akin to the Buddhists, and distinguished from monks of other confession, who are wholly out of the pale of Bauddha sects. The whole history of the church in India is one of family quarrels, at least down to the days of Hiouen Thsang. 5 Or, Buddhas, i.e. will sooner or later die. * Prak4saye, a singular which I do not feel at liberty to render by a plural. ® Again a singular, anarthiko’smi. XII. EXERTION. 261 but as keepers of thine entrusted deposit we care for enlightenment. 16. The Lord himself knows that in the last pericd there are (to be) wicked monks who do not understand mysterious speech?. 17. One will have to bear frowning looks, repeated disavowal (or concealment), expulsion from the monasteries, many and manifold abuses*. 18. Yet mindful of the command of the Lord of the world we will in the last period undauntedly proclaim this Sftra in the midst. of the congregation. 19. We will visit towns and villages everywhere, and transmit to those who. care for it thine entrusted deposit, O Lord. 20. O Chief of the world, we will deliver thy message; be at ease then, tranquil and quiet, great Seer.
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(He said): But, Gautamt, thou hast received a prediction with the prediction regarding the whole assembly. Indeed, Gautami, thou shalt from henceforward, before the face of thirty-eight 1 Ciphers do not count, so that only six must be reckoned. These six with Gautamf form the number of seven. The seven Matres or Mother-goddesses are known from Indian mythology. Kumara, the prince royal (Skanda), is sometimes said to have six mothers, sometimes seven, sometimes one. The six are said to be the six clearly visible Krittik4s (Pleiads); the seventh is the less distinct star of the Pleiads. His one mother is Durg&. It is by mistake that the dictionaries fix the number of Krittikas at six; there are seven, as appears e.g. from Mahabharata III, 230, 11. XI. EXERTION. 257 hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Buddhas’, be a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law. These six thousand? nuns also, partly perfected in discipline, partly not, shall along with others become Bodhisattvas® and preachers of the law before the face of the Tathagatas. Afterwards, when thou shalt have completed the course of a Bodhisattva, thou shalt become, under the name of Sarvasattvapriyadarsana (i.e. lovely to see for all beings), a Tathdgata, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c. And that Tathagata Sarvasattvapriyadarsana, O Gautami, shall give a prediction by regular succession to those six thousand’ Bodhisattvas concerning their destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment. Then the nun Yasodhar4, the mother of R4hula, thought thus: The Lord has not mentioned my name. And the Lord comprehending in his own mind what was going on in the mind of the nun Yasodharé said to her: I announce to thee, Yasodhar4, I declare to thee : Thou also shalt before the face of ten thousand kof¢is‘ of Buddhas become a Bodhisattva and preacher of the law, and after regularly completing the course of a Bodhisattva thou shalt become a Tathagata, named Rasmisatasahasraparipirzadhvaga, an Arhat, &c., endowed with science and conduct, &c. &c., in the 1 In the margin has been added by a later hand: ‘after paying honour, respect, reverence, worship, and veneration.’ A little further on we find the same marginal addition. 3 A few lines before the number was six hundred. Both numbers come to the same, for ciphers do not count. * Here it is not added that Gautami cum suis has to change sex (i.e. gender) in order to be fit for Bodhisattvaship. In fact, the Krittikas are always feminine in Sanskrit. * Burnouf has read, ten hundred thousand myriads of koAs. [21] Ss 258 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xu. world Bhadra; and the lifetime of that Lord Rasmisatasahasraparipirzadhvaga shall be unlimited. When the noble matron Gautamt, the nun, with her suite of six thousand nuns, and Yasodharé, the nun, with her suite of four thousand nuns, heard from the Lord their future destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment, they uttered, in wonder and amazement, this stanza :
2When the noble matron Gautamt, the nun, with her suite of six thousand nuns, and Yasodharé, the nun, with her suite of four thousand nuns, heard from the Lord their future destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment, they uttered, in wonder and amazement, this stanza : 1. O Lord, thou art the trainer, thou art the leader; thou art the master of the world, including the gods; thou art the giver of comfort, thou who art worshipped by men and gods. Now, indeed, we feel satisfied. After uttering this stanza the nuns said to the Lord: We also, O Lord, will exert ourselves to divulge this Dharmapary4ya in the last days, though in other worlds. Thereafter the Lord looked towards the eighty hundred thousand Bodhisattvas who were gifted with magical spells and capable of moving forward the wheel that never rolls back. No sooner were those Bodhisattvas regarded by the Lord than they rose from their seats, raised their joined hands towards the Lord and reflected thus: The Lord invites us to make known the Dharmaparydya. Agitated by that thought they asked one another: What shall we do, young men of good family, in order that this Dharmaparyaya may in future be made known as the Lord invites us to do? Thereupon those young men of good family, in consequence of their reverence for the Lord and their own pious vow in their previous course, raised a lion’s roar? before the Lord: We, O Lord, will in future, after the ? One might say, a cry of martial exultation. xi. EXERTION. 259 complete extinction of the Lord, go in all directions in order that creatures shall write, keep, meditate, — divulge this Dharmaparyd4ya, by no other’s power but the Lord’s. And the Lord, staying in another world, shall protect, defend, and guard us. Then the Bodhisattvas unanimously in a chorus addressed the Lord with the following stanzas : 2. Be at ease,O Lord. After thy complete extinction, in the horrible last period of the world, we will proclaim this sublime Satra. 3. We will suffer, patiently endure, O Lord, the injuries, threats, blows and threats with sticks! at the hands of foolish men, 4. At that dreadful last epoch men will be malign, crooked, wicked, dull, conceited, fancying to have come to the limit when they have not. 5. ‘We do not care but to live in the wilderness and wear a patched cloth; we lead a frugal life;’ so will they speak to the ignorant?. 6. And persons greedily attached to enjoyments will preach the law to laymen and be honoured as if they possessed the six transcendent qualities. 7. Cruel-minded and wicked men, only occupied with household cares, will enter our retreat in the forest and become our calumniators. 8. The Tirthikas’, themselves bent on profit and honour, will say of us that we are so, and—shame on such monks !—they will preach their own fictions‘. * Danda-udgirana, for which I think we have to read dandaudgfraza, ? Durmatin. * Dissenters, as the foremost of whom generally appear the Gainas, from the Buddhist point of view.
3* Danda-udgirana, for which I think we have to read dandaudgfraza, ? Durmatin. * Dissenters, as the foremost of whom generally appear the Gainas, from the Buddhist point of view. ‘ Tirthika vat’ ime bhikshf svani kAvy4ni desayu#. Here S 2 260 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XII. 9. Prompted by greed of profit and honour they will compose Sfitras of their own invention and then, in the midst of the assembly, accuse us of plagiarism’. 10. To kings, princes, king’s peers, as well as to Brahmans and commoners, and to monks of other confessions, 11. They will speak evil of us and propagate the Tirtha-doctrine*. We will endure all that out of reverence for the great Seers. 12. And those fools who will not listen to us, shall (sooner or later) become enlightened?, and therefore will we forbear to the last. 13. In that dreadful, most terrible period of frightful general revolution will many fiendish monks stand up as our revilers. 14. Out of respect for the Chief of the world we will bear it, however difficult it be; girded with the girdle of forbearance will I* proclaim this Satra. 15. I§ do not care for my body or life, O Lord, we have the interjection vata (bata) in the sense of a nind4, reproach, contempt. The Buddhists are fond of denouncing schismatics or heretics as impostors, and their works as forgeries ; a model of such an accusation brought forward by the orthodox against the ‘wicked’ monks, the Vaggiputtakas, is to be found in Dipavamsa V, 30 seqq. 1 Or, perhaps, speak slander of us. The term used, anuku//ana, is unknown to me from other passages, so that I have had recourse to etymology: anu, after, ku//an4, stamping. ® These passages are not very explicit, but this much is clear that the Tirthikas are somehow akin to the Buddhists, and distinguished from monks of other confession, who are wholly out of the pale of Bauddha sects. The whole history of the church in India is one of family quarrels, at least down to the days of Hiouen Thsang. 5 Or, Buddhas, i.e. will sooner or later die. * Prak4saye, a singular which I do not feel at liberty to render by a plural. ® Again a singular, anarthiko’smi. XII. EXERTION. 261 but as keepers of thine entrusted deposit we care for enlightenment. 16. The Lord himself knows that in the last pericd there are (to be) wicked monks who do not understand mysterious speech?. 17. One will have to bear frowning looks, repeated disavowal (or concealment), expulsion from the monasteries, many and manifold abuses*. 18. Yet mindful of the command of the Lord of the world we will in the last period undauntedly proclaim this Sftra in the midst. of the congregation. 19. We will visit towns and villages everywhere, and transmit to those who. care for it thine entrusted deposit, O Lord. 20. O Chief of the world, we will deliver thy message; be at ease then, tranquil and quiet, great Seer.
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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