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1Dipavamsa VI, 98 the word eighty-four denotes eighty-four thousand. 3 Yogam apadyemahi. 282 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XIV. in their train, who at the end of time, at the last period after my extinction, shall keep, read, proclaim this Dharmapary4ya. No sooner had the Lord uttered these words than the Saha-world burst open on every side, and from within the clefts arose many hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas with gold-coloured bodies and the thirty-two characteristic signs of a great man, who had been staying in the element of ether underneath this great earth, close to this Sahaworld, These then on hearing the word of the Lord came up from below the earth. Each of these Bodhisattvas had a train of thousands of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of sixty Ganges? rivers; (each had) a troop, a great troop, as teacher of a troop. Of such Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a troop, a great troop, as teachers of a troop, there were hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is equal to the sands of sixty Ganges? rivers, who emerged from the gaps of the earth in this Saha-world. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of fifty Ganges rivers ; much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mah4sattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of forty Ganges rivers; of 30%, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, I Ganges river ; of 1121 21 1 «121 1 a 1 1 1 Or, a train of sixty thousand Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of the river Ganges. 3 Shash/y eva, which is ungrammatical, for shash/ir eva, or it is a corrupt reading. ® The text goes on repeating the same words, save the difference of number ; I have given the contents in a shortened form. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 28 3 1 1 f h . 100 X1000 x 10,000,000’ 1001000 x10,000 x10,000,000 Part of the river
2® The text goes on repeating the same words, save the difference of number ; I have given the contents in a shortened form. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 28 3 1 1 f h . 100 X1000 x 10,000,000’ 1001000 x10,000 x10,000,000 Part of the river Ganges. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a train of many hundred thousand myriads of kof¢is of Bodhisattvas ; of one kofi; of one hundred thousand; of one thousand; of 500; of 400; of 300; of 200; of 100; of 50; of 40; of 30; of 20; of 10; of 5, 4, 3, 2. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahésattvas having one follower. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing isolated. They cannot be numbered, counted, calculated, compared, known by occult science, the Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who emerged from the gaps of the earth to appear in this Saha-world. And after they had successively emerged they went up to the Stipa of precious substances which stood in the sky, where the Lord Prabhataratna, the extinct Tathagata, was seated along with the Lord Sékyamuni on the throne. Whereafter they saluted the feet of both Tathagatas, &c., as well as the images of Tathagatas produced by the Lord Sakyamuni from his own body, who all together were seated on thrones at the foot of various jewel trees on every side in all directions, in different worlds. After these Bodhisattvas had many hundred thousand times saluted, and thereon circumambulated the Tath4gatas, &c., from left to right, and celebrated them with various Bodhisattva hymns, they went and kept themselves at a little distance, the joined hands stretched out to honour the Lord S4kyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c. And while those Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who had emerged from the gaps of the earth were saluting and celebrating the Tath4gatas by various Bodhi- 284 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xIV. sattva hymns, fifty intermediate kalpas in full rolled away, during which fifty intermediate kalpas the Lord Sakyamuni remained silent, and likewise the four classes of the audience. Then the Lord produced such an effect of magical power that the four classes fancied that it had been no more than one afternoon}, and they saw this Saha-world assume the appearance of hundred thousands of worlds? replete with Bodhisattvas*, The four Bodhisattvas Mahdasattvas who were the chiefest of that great host of Bodhisattvas, viz. the Bodhisattva Mahésattva called Visish/a#4ritra (i.e. of eminent conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva called Ananta- Aaritra (i.e. of endless conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahfsattva called Visuddhaééritra (i. e. of correct conduct), and the Bodhisattva MahAsattva called Supratish¢/itaf4ritra (i. e. of very steady conduct), these four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing at
3of endless conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahfsattva called Visuddhaééritra (i. e. of correct conduct), and the Bodhisattva MahAsattva called Supratish¢/itaf4ritra (i. e. of very steady conduct), these four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing at ' If we take kalpa or Aton (i.e. a day of twenty-four hours) to contain eighty intermediate kalpas, it is impossible that either fifty or five intermediate kalpas should be equal to an afternoon. A so-called Asankhyeya kalpa has twenty intermediate kalpas, and is, in reality, equal to six hours, so that five intermediate kalpas will embrace a time of 1} hour. If we might take an Asankhyeya to be the equivalent of a day of twenty-four hours, the reckoning would be correct, for then five intermediate kalpas would be equal to six hours; we can, however, produce no authority for Asankhyeya kalpa ever being used in the (esoteric) sense of a day and night. * Lokadh&tusatasahasrakaraparigréhttam, which ought to be °karap°, or °k4ram p°. Instances of the peculiar construction of parigrzhfta after the analogy of prapta are found, Lalita-vistara, pp. 109, 112,181, 368. A marginal would-be correction has °kasam p°. * The afternoon being at an end, the innumerable spheres of the stars become visible. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 285 the head of the great host, the great multitude of Bodhisattvas stretched out the joined hands towards the Lord and addressed him thus: Is the Lord in good health? Does he enjoy well-being and good ease? Are the creatures decorous, docile, obedient, correctly performing their task’, so that they give no trouble to the Lord? And those four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas addressed the Lord with the two following stanzas: 1. Does the Lord of the world, the illuminator, feel at ease? Dost thou feel free from bodily disease, O Perfect One ? 2. The creatures, we hope, will be decorous, docile, performing the orders? of the Lord of the world, so as to give no trouble. And the Lord answered the four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who were at the head of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas: So it is, young men of good family, I am in good health, well-being, and at ease. And these creatures of mine are decorous, docile, obedient, well performing what is ordered; they give no trouble when I correct them’; and that, young men of good family, because these creatures, owing to their being already prepared under the ancient, perfectly enlightened Buddhas, have but to see and hear me to put trust ' Suvisodhaka. The rendering doubtful; see next note. 2 Susodhaka. This, as well as suvisodhaka, properly means ‘well cleaning,’ and applies, at least originally, to servants or pupils who are charged with sweeping the house or precincts. I have tried to give the expression a spiritual look; Burnouf renders it by ‘faciles 4 purifier,’ which is quite plausible, because in a similar compound, subodha, we find bodha used in a passive sense, the word meaning ‘easy to be understood.’
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.
1Dipavamsa VI, 98 the word eighty-four denotes eighty-four thousand. 3 Yogam apadyemahi. 282 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XIV. in their train, who at the end of time, at the last period after my extinction, shall keep, read, proclaim this Dharmapary4ya. No sooner had the Lord uttered these words than the Saha-world burst open on every side, and from within the clefts arose many hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas with gold-coloured bodies and the thirty-two characteristic signs of a great man, who had been staying in the element of ether underneath this great earth, close to this Sahaworld, These then on hearing the word of the Lord came up from below the earth. Each of these Bodhisattvas had a train of thousands of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of sixty Ganges? rivers; (each had) a troop, a great troop, as teacher of a troop. Of such Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a troop, a great troop, as teachers of a troop, there were hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is equal to the sands of sixty Ganges? rivers, who emerged from the gaps of the earth in this Saha-world. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of fifty Ganges rivers ; much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mah4sattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of forty Ganges rivers; of 30%, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, I Ganges river ; of 1121 21 1 «121 1 a 1 1 1 Or, a train of sixty thousand Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of the river Ganges. 3 Shash/y eva, which is ungrammatical, for shash/ir eva, or it is a corrupt reading. ® The text goes on repeating the same words, save the difference of number ; I have given the contents in a shortened form. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 28 3 1 1 f h . 100 X1000 x 10,000,000’ 1001000 x10,000 x10,000,000 Part of the river
2® The text goes on repeating the same words, save the difference of number ; I have given the contents in a shortened form. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 28 3 1 1 f h . 100 X1000 x 10,000,000’ 1001000 x10,000 x10,000,000 Part of the river Ganges. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas having a train of many hundred thousand myriads of kof¢is of Bodhisattvas ; of one kofi; of one hundred thousand; of one thousand; of 500; of 400; of 300; of 200; of 100; of 50; of 40; of 30; of 20; of 10; of 5, 4, 3, 2. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahésattvas having one follower. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing isolated. They cannot be numbered, counted, calculated, compared, known by occult science, the Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who emerged from the gaps of the earth to appear in this Saha-world. And after they had successively emerged they went up to the Stipa of precious substances which stood in the sky, where the Lord Prabhataratna, the extinct Tathagata, was seated along with the Lord Sékyamuni on the throne. Whereafter they saluted the feet of both Tathagatas, &c., as well as the images of Tathagatas produced by the Lord Sakyamuni from his own body, who all together were seated on thrones at the foot of various jewel trees on every side in all directions, in different worlds. After these Bodhisattvas had many hundred thousand times saluted, and thereon circumambulated the Tath4gatas, &c., from left to right, and celebrated them with various Bodhisattva hymns, they went and kept themselves at a little distance, the joined hands stretched out to honour the Lord S4kyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c. And while those Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who had emerged from the gaps of the earth were saluting and celebrating the Tath4gatas by various Bodhi- 284 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xIV. sattva hymns, fifty intermediate kalpas in full rolled away, during which fifty intermediate kalpas the Lord Sakyamuni remained silent, and likewise the four classes of the audience. Then the Lord produced such an effect of magical power that the four classes fancied that it had been no more than one afternoon}, and they saw this Saha-world assume the appearance of hundred thousands of worlds? replete with Bodhisattvas*, The four Bodhisattvas Mahdasattvas who were the chiefest of that great host of Bodhisattvas, viz. the Bodhisattva Mahésattva called Visish/a#4ritra (i.e. of eminent conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva called Ananta- Aaritra (i.e. of endless conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahfsattva called Visuddhaééritra (i. e. of correct conduct), and the Bodhisattva MahAsattva called Supratish¢/itaf4ritra (i. e. of very steady conduct), these four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing at
3of endless conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahfsattva called Visuddhaééritra (i. e. of correct conduct), and the Bodhisattva MahAsattva called Supratish¢/itaf4ritra (i. e. of very steady conduct), these four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas standing at ' If we take kalpa or Aton (i.e. a day of twenty-four hours) to contain eighty intermediate kalpas, it is impossible that either fifty or five intermediate kalpas should be equal to an afternoon. A so-called Asankhyeya kalpa has twenty intermediate kalpas, and is, in reality, equal to six hours, so that five intermediate kalpas will embrace a time of 1} hour. If we might take an Asankhyeya to be the equivalent of a day of twenty-four hours, the reckoning would be correct, for then five intermediate kalpas would be equal to six hours; we can, however, produce no authority for Asankhyeya kalpa ever being used in the (esoteric) sense of a day and night. * Lokadh&tusatasahasrakaraparigréhttam, which ought to be °karap°, or °k4ram p°. Instances of the peculiar construction of parigrzhfta after the analogy of prapta are found, Lalita-vistara, pp. 109, 112,181, 368. A marginal would-be correction has °kasam p°. * The afternoon being at an end, the innumerable spheres of the stars become visible. XIV. ISSUING OF BODHISATTVAS. 285 the head of the great host, the great multitude of Bodhisattvas stretched out the joined hands towards the Lord and addressed him thus: Is the Lord in good health? Does he enjoy well-being and good ease? Are the creatures decorous, docile, obedient, correctly performing their task’, so that they give no trouble to the Lord? And those four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas addressed the Lord with the two following stanzas: 1. Does the Lord of the world, the illuminator, feel at ease? Dost thou feel free from bodily disease, O Perfect One ? 2. The creatures, we hope, will be decorous, docile, performing the orders? of the Lord of the world, so as to give no trouble. And the Lord answered the four Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who were at the head of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas: So it is, young men of good family, I am in good health, well-being, and at ease. And these creatures of mine are decorous, docile, obedient, well performing what is ordered; they give no trouble when I correct them’; and that, young men of good family, because these creatures, owing to their being already prepared under the ancient, perfectly enlightened Buddhas, have but to see and hear me to put trust ' Suvisodhaka. The rendering doubtful; see next note. 2 Susodhaka. This, as well as suvisodhaka, properly means ‘well cleaning,’ and applies, at least originally, to servants or pupils who are charged with sweeping the house or precincts. I have tried to give the expression a spiritual look; Burnouf renders it by ‘faciles 4 purifier,’ which is quite plausible, because in a similar compound, subodha, we find bodha used in a passive sense, the word meaning ‘easy to be understood.’
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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