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138. He will have paid worship to me, and built Stipas of relics, made of precious substances, variegated, beautiful, and splendid ; 39. In height coming up to the Brahma-world, with rows of umbrellas, great in circumference?, gorgeous, and decorated with triumphal streamers ; 40. Resounding with the clear ring of bells, and decorated with silk bands, while jingles moved by 1 One would rather expect, that place one should consider to be a shrine. * Parinfhavanta#, There is no word for Burnouf’s ‘ proportionné’ (anupfirva) in the text. XVI. OF PIETY. 325 the wind form another ornament at (the shrines of) Gina relics’. 41. He will have shown great honour to them by flowers, perfumes, and ointments; by music, clothes, and the repeated (sound of) tymbals. 42. He will have sweet musical instruments struck at those relics, and lamps with scented oil kept burning all around. 43. He who at the period of depravation shall keep and teach this Sdtra, he will have paid me such an infinitely varied worship. 44. He has built many kofis of excellent monasteries of sandal-wood, with thirty-two pinnacles, and eight terraces high ; 45. Provided with couches, with food hard and soft; furnished with excellent curtains, and having cells by thousands. 46. He has given hermitages and walks embellished by flower-gardens; many elegant objects? of various forms and variegated. 47. He has shown manifold worship to the host of disciples in my presence, he who, after my extinction, shall keep this Satra. 48. Let one be ever so good in disposition, much greater merit will he obtain who shall keep or write this Satra. 49. Let a man cause this to be written and 1 Sobhante Ginadhatushu. Burnouf gives a different translation of this passage: ‘ces Stfipas, enfin, regoivent leur éclat des reliques du Djina.’ 2 I am quite uncertain about the word in the text, uA&hadaka. It seems to be connected with the P&li ussada, about which Childers, s. v., remarks that it probably means ‘a protuberance.’ Burnouf renders the word in our text by ‘ coussin,’ 325 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XVI. have it well put together in a volume; let him always worship the volume with flowers, garlands, ointments. 50. Let him constantly place near it a lamp filled with scented oil, along with full-blown lotuses and suitable! oblations of Michelia Champaka. 51. The man who pays such worship to the books will produce a mass of merit which is not to be measured, 52. Even as there is no measure of the element of ether, in none of the ten directions, so there is no measure of this mass of merit. 53. How much more will this be the case with one who is patient, meek, devoted, moral, studious, and addicted to meditation ; 54. Who is not‘irascible, not treacherous, reverential towards the sanctuary, always humble towards monks, not conceited, nor neglectful ; 55. Sensible and wise, not angry when he is asked a question ; who, full of compassion for living beings, gives such instruction as suits them.
2Who is not‘irascible, not treacherous, reverential towards the sanctuary, always humble towards monks, not conceited, nor neglectful ; 55. Sensible and wise, not angry when he is asked a question ; who, full of compassion for living beings, gives such instruction as suits them. 56. If there be such a man who (at the same time) keeps this Satra, he will possess a mass of merit that cannot be measured. 57. If one meets such a man as here described, a keeper of this Sdtra, one should do homage to him. 58. One should present him with divine flowers, cover him with divine clothes, and bow the head to salute his feet, in the conviction of his being a Tathagata. 59. And at the sight of such a man one may ? Yuktait. Burnouf must have read muktaiA, for his translation has ‘ pearls.’ XVI. OF PIETY. 327 directly make the reflection that he is going towards the foot of the tree to arrive at superior, blessed enlightenment for the weal of all the world, including the gods. 60. And wherever sueh a sage is walking, standing, sitting, or lying down; wherever the hero pronounces were it but a single stanza from this Sftra; 61. There one should build a Stdpa for the most high of men, a splendid, beautiful (Stdpa), dedicated to the Lord Buddha, the Chief, and then worship it in manifold ways. 62. That spot of the earth has been enjoyed by myself; there have I walked myself, and there have I been sitting ; where that son of Buddha has stayed, there I am. 328 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA, XVI. CHAPTER XVII. INDICATION OF THE MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. Thereupon the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Maitreya said to the Lord: O Lord, one who, after hearing this Dharmaparydaya being preached, joyfully! accepts it, be that person a young man of good family or a young lady, how much merit, O Lord, will be produced by such a young man or young lady of good family ? And on that occasion the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya uttered this stanza: 1. How great will be the merit of him who, after the extinction of the great Hero, shall hear this exalted Sfdtra and joyfully accept it ? And the Lord said to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya: If any one, Agita, either a young man of good family or a young lady, after the complete extinction of the Tath4gata, hears the preaching of this Dharmapary4ya, let it be a monk or nun,a male or female lay devotee, a man of ripe understanding or a boy or girl; if the hearer joyfully accepts it, and then after the sermon rises up to go elsewhere, to a monastery, house, forest, street, village, town, or province, with the motive and express aim to expound the law such as he has understood, such as he has heard it, and according to the measure of his power, * Or, gratefully. XVII. MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. 329
3XVII. MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. 329 to another person, his mother, father, kinsman, friend, acquaintance, or any other person ; if the latter, after hearing, joyfully accepts, and, in consequence, communicates it to another; if the latter, after hearing, joyfully accepts, and communicates it to another; if this other, again, after hearing, joyfully accepts it, and so on in succession until a number of fifty is reached; then, Agita, the fiftieth person to hear and joyfully accept the law so heard, let it be a young man of good family or a young lady, will have acquired an accumulation of merit connected with the joyful acceptance, Agita, which I am going to indicate to thee. Listen, and take it well to heart; I will tell thee. It is, Agita, as if the creatures existing in the four hundred thousand Asankhyeyas! of worlds, in any of the six states of existence, born from an egg, from a womb, from warm humidity, or from metamorphosis, whether they have a shape or have not, be they conscious or unconscious, neither conscious nor unconscious, footless, two-footed, four-footed, or many-footed, as many beings as are contained in the world of creatures,—(as if) all those had flocked together to one place. Further, suppose some man appears, a lover of virtue, a lover of good, who gives to that whole body the pleasures, sports, amusements, and enjoyments they desire, like, and relish. He gives to each of them all Gambudvipa for his pleasures, sports, amusements, and enjoyments ; gives bullion, gold, silver, gems, pearls, lapis lazuli, conches, stones (?), coral, carriages yoked with horses, with bullocks, with elephants; gives palaces and 1 An incalculable great number. 370 SADDIHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XVII.
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.
138. He will have paid worship to me, and built Stipas of relics, made of precious substances, variegated, beautiful, and splendid ; 39. In height coming up to the Brahma-world, with rows of umbrellas, great in circumference?, gorgeous, and decorated with triumphal streamers ; 40. Resounding with the clear ring of bells, and decorated with silk bands, while jingles moved by 1 One would rather expect, that place one should consider to be a shrine. * Parinfhavanta#, There is no word for Burnouf’s ‘ proportionné’ (anupfirva) in the text. XVI. OF PIETY. 325 the wind form another ornament at (the shrines of) Gina relics’. 41. He will have shown great honour to them by flowers, perfumes, and ointments; by music, clothes, and the repeated (sound of) tymbals. 42. He will have sweet musical instruments struck at those relics, and lamps with scented oil kept burning all around. 43. He who at the period of depravation shall keep and teach this Sdtra, he will have paid me such an infinitely varied worship. 44. He has built many kofis of excellent monasteries of sandal-wood, with thirty-two pinnacles, and eight terraces high ; 45. Provided with couches, with food hard and soft; furnished with excellent curtains, and having cells by thousands. 46. He has given hermitages and walks embellished by flower-gardens; many elegant objects? of various forms and variegated. 47. He has shown manifold worship to the host of disciples in my presence, he who, after my extinction, shall keep this Satra. 48. Let one be ever so good in disposition, much greater merit will he obtain who shall keep or write this Satra. 49. Let a man cause this to be written and 1 Sobhante Ginadhatushu. Burnouf gives a different translation of this passage: ‘ces Stfipas, enfin, regoivent leur éclat des reliques du Djina.’ 2 I am quite uncertain about the word in the text, uA&hadaka. It seems to be connected with the P&li ussada, about which Childers, s. v., remarks that it probably means ‘a protuberance.’ Burnouf renders the word in our text by ‘ coussin,’ 325 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XVI. have it well put together in a volume; let him always worship the volume with flowers, garlands, ointments. 50. Let him constantly place near it a lamp filled with scented oil, along with full-blown lotuses and suitable! oblations of Michelia Champaka. 51. The man who pays such worship to the books will produce a mass of merit which is not to be measured, 52. Even as there is no measure of the element of ether, in none of the ten directions, so there is no measure of this mass of merit. 53. How much more will this be the case with one who is patient, meek, devoted, moral, studious, and addicted to meditation ; 54. Who is not‘irascible, not treacherous, reverential towards the sanctuary, always humble towards monks, not conceited, nor neglectful ; 55. Sensible and wise, not angry when he is asked a question ; who, full of compassion for living beings, gives such instruction as suits them.
2Who is not‘irascible, not treacherous, reverential towards the sanctuary, always humble towards monks, not conceited, nor neglectful ; 55. Sensible and wise, not angry when he is asked a question ; who, full of compassion for living beings, gives such instruction as suits them. 56. If there be such a man who (at the same time) keeps this Satra, he will possess a mass of merit that cannot be measured. 57. If one meets such a man as here described, a keeper of this Sdtra, one should do homage to him. 58. One should present him with divine flowers, cover him with divine clothes, and bow the head to salute his feet, in the conviction of his being a Tathagata. 59. And at the sight of such a man one may ? Yuktait. Burnouf must have read muktaiA, for his translation has ‘ pearls.’ XVI. OF PIETY. 327 directly make the reflection that he is going towards the foot of the tree to arrive at superior, blessed enlightenment for the weal of all the world, including the gods. 60. And wherever sueh a sage is walking, standing, sitting, or lying down; wherever the hero pronounces were it but a single stanza from this Sftra; 61. There one should build a Stdpa for the most high of men, a splendid, beautiful (Stdpa), dedicated to the Lord Buddha, the Chief, and then worship it in manifold ways. 62. That spot of the earth has been enjoyed by myself; there have I walked myself, and there have I been sitting ; where that son of Buddha has stayed, there I am. 328 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA, XVI. CHAPTER XVII. INDICATION OF THE MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. Thereupon the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Maitreya said to the Lord: O Lord, one who, after hearing this Dharmaparydaya being preached, joyfully! accepts it, be that person a young man of good family or a young lady, how much merit, O Lord, will be produced by such a young man or young lady of good family ? And on that occasion the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya uttered this stanza: 1. How great will be the merit of him who, after the extinction of the great Hero, shall hear this exalted Sfdtra and joyfully accept it ? And the Lord said to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya: If any one, Agita, either a young man of good family or a young lady, after the complete extinction of the Tath4gata, hears the preaching of this Dharmapary4ya, let it be a monk or nun,a male or female lay devotee, a man of ripe understanding or a boy or girl; if the hearer joyfully accepts it, and then after the sermon rises up to go elsewhere, to a monastery, house, forest, street, village, town, or province, with the motive and express aim to expound the law such as he has understood, such as he has heard it, and according to the measure of his power, * Or, gratefully. XVII. MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. 329
3XVII. MERITORIOUSNESS OF JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE. 329 to another person, his mother, father, kinsman, friend, acquaintance, or any other person ; if the latter, after hearing, joyfully accepts, and, in consequence, communicates it to another; if the latter, after hearing, joyfully accepts, and communicates it to another; if this other, again, after hearing, joyfully accepts it, and so on in succession until a number of fifty is reached; then, Agita, the fiftieth person to hear and joyfully accept the law so heard, let it be a young man of good family or a young lady, will have acquired an accumulation of merit connected with the joyful acceptance, Agita, which I am going to indicate to thee. Listen, and take it well to heart; I will tell thee. It is, Agita, as if the creatures existing in the four hundred thousand Asankhyeyas! of worlds, in any of the six states of existence, born from an egg, from a womb, from warm humidity, or from metamorphosis, whether they have a shape or have not, be they conscious or unconscious, neither conscious nor unconscious, footless, two-footed, four-footed, or many-footed, as many beings as are contained in the world of creatures,—(as if) all those had flocked together to one place. Further, suppose some man appears, a lover of virtue, a lover of good, who gives to that whole body the pleasures, sports, amusements, and enjoyments they desire, like, and relish. He gives to each of them all Gambudvipa for his pleasures, sports, amusements, and enjoyments ; gives bullion, gold, silver, gems, pearls, lapis lazuli, conches, stones (?), coral, carriages yoked with horses, with bullocks, with elephants; gives palaces and 1 An incalculable great number. 370 SADDIHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XVII.
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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