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1And on that occasion the Lord uttered the following stanzas : 1. I remember a past period, when king Bhtfshmasvara?, the Gina, lived, very mighty, and revered by gods and men, the leader of men, gods, goblins, and giants. 2. At the time succeeding the complete extinction of that Gina, when the decay of the true law 1 Updsaka, the masculine; this does not suit, but on the other hand it must be admitted that the omission of male devotees is not to be accounted for. Not unlikely some words have been left out by inadvertence, not only in the Cambridge MS., but also in the MSS. known to Burnouf. Cf., however, st. 9. 1 Bhishmasvaro raga gino yadasi. XIX. SADAPARIBHOTA. 361 was far advanced, there was a monk, a Bodhisattva, called by the name of Sad4paribhata. 3. Other monks and nuns who did not believe but in what they saw’, he would approach (and say): I never am to contemn you, for you observe the course leading to supreme enlightenment. 4. It was his wont always to utter those words, which brought him but abuse and taunts from their part. At the time when his death was impending he heard this Satra. 5. The sage, then, did not expire; he resolved upon? a very long life, and promulgated this Satra under the rule of that leader. 6. And those many (persons) who only acknowledged the evidence of sensual perception* were by him brought to full ripeness for enlightenment. Then, disappearing from that place, he propitiated thousands of kofis of Buddhas. 7. Owing to the successive good actions performed by him, and to his constantly promulgating this Sftra, that son of Gina reached enlightenment. That Bodhisattva then is myself, Sakyamuni. 8. And those persons who only believed in perception by the senses‘, those monks, nuns, male and female lay devotees who by the sage were admonished of enlightenment, 9. And who have seen many ko/is of Buddhas, 1 Upalambhadr?sh/ina; I am not sure of the correctness of this translation; Burnouf renders it by ‘qui ne voyaient que les objets extérieurs,’ which comes pretty much to the same. § Pratishshihitva (Sansk. pratish/Aaya) a sudirgham AyuA, properly ‘having stood still for a very long time of life.’ 5 Upalambhika. * Aupalambhika, a 262 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. NIN. are the monks here before me,—no less than five hundred,—nuns, and female lay devotees. 10. All of them have been by me brought to complete ripeness, and after my extinction they will all, full of wisdom, keep this Satra. 11. Not once in many, inconceivably many ko/is of Eons has such a Sfttra as this been heard. There are, indeed, hundreds of kofis of Buddhas, but they do not elucidate this Sftra. 12. Therefore let one who has heard this law exposed by the Self-born himself, and who has repeatedly propitiated him, promulgate this Stra after my extinction in this world. * The text has up4sik4A. XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 363 CHAPTER XxX. CONCEPTION OF THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS.
2* The text has up4sik4A. XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 363 CHAPTER XxX. CONCEPTION OF THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. Thereupon those hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas equal to the dust-atoms of a macrocosm, who had issued from the gaps of the earth, all stretched their joined hands towards the Lord, and said unto him: We, O Lord, will, after the complete extinction of the Tathagata, promulgate this Dharmapary4ya everywhere (or on -every occasion) in all Buddha-fields of the Lord, wherever (or whenever) the Lord shall be completely extinct! We are anxious to obtain this sublime Dharmapary4ya, O Lord, in order to keep, read, publish, and write it. Thereupon the hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas, headed by Mazgusrt; the monks, nuns, male and female lay devotees living in this world; the gods, Nagas, goblins, Gandharvas, demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men, and beings not human, and the many Bodhisattvas Mahifsattvas equal to the sands of the river Ganges, said unto the Lord: We also, O Lord, will promulgate this Dharmapary4ya after the complete extinction of the Tathagata. While standing with an invisible body in the sky, O Lord, we will send ' Hence follows that Nirvana is repeatedly entered into by the Lord. 364 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xx. forth a voice’, and plant the roots of goodness of such ‘creatures as have not (yet) planted roots of goodness. Then the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Visishéadaritra, followed by a troop, a great troop, the master of a troop, who was the very first of those afore-mentioned Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas followed by a troop, a great troop, masters of a troop: Very well, Visish/a#4ritra, very well; so you should do; it is for the sake of this Dharmapary4ya that the Tathagata has brought you to ripeness. Thereupon the Lord Sékyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the wholly extinct Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c., both seated on the throne in the centre of the Stipa’, commenced smiling to one another, and from their opened mouths stretched out their tongues, so that with their tongues they reached the Brahma-world, and from those two tongues issued many hundred thousand myriads of kofis of rays®. From each of those rays issued many hundred thousand myriads of kofis of Bodhisattvas, with goldcoloured bodies and possessed of the thirty-two characteristic signs of a great man, and seated on thrones consisting of the interior of lotuses. Those ? From this it appears that the abode of the monks &c. in the assembly of the Lord Sakyamuni is in the sky, at least occasionally. Their attribute of ‘an invisible body’ shows them to be identical with the videhas, the incorporeal ones, i. e. the spirits of the blessed departed, Arhats, Muktas, Pitaras. The Pitaras form the assembly of Dharmaraga. * Cf. Chapter XI.
3Their attribute of ‘an invisible body’ shows them to be identical with the videhas, the incorporeal ones, i. e. the spirits of the blessed departed, Arhats, Muktas, Pitaras. The Pitaras form the assembly of Dharmaraga. * Cf. Chapter XI. * It is quite true that the moon as well as the sun is sahasrarasmi, possessed of thousand rays, but it is difficult to understand how the Bhagavat Prabhfitaratna can show his magic power in his state of extinction, XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 365 Bodhisattvas spread in all directions in hundred thousands of worlds, and while on every side stationed in the sky preached the law. Just as the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c. produced a miracle of magic by his tongue, so, too, Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c., and the other Tath4gatas, &c., who, having flocked from hundred thousands of myriads of kof¢is of other worlds, were seated on thrones at the foot of jewel trees, by their tongues produced a miracle of magic. The Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and all those Tathagatas, &c., produced that magical effect during fully a thousand! years. After the lapse of that millennium those Tathagatas, &c., pulled back their tongue, and all simultaneously, at the same moment, the same instant, made a great noise as of expectoration? and of snapping the fingers, by which sounds all the hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of Buddha-fields in every direction of space were moved, removed, stirred, wholly stirred, tossed, tossed forward, tossed along, and all beings in all those Buddha-fields, gods, Nagas, goblins, Gandharvas, demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men, and beings not human beheld, by the power of the Buddha, from the place where they stood, this Saha-world. They beheld the hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of Tathagatas seated severally on their throne at the foot of a jewel tree, and the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., wholly extinct, sitting on the throne in the centre of the 1 Burnouf has ‘a hundred thousand.’ * Utkdsana, better °sana. 366 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xx. Stipa of magnificent precious substances, along with the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; they beheld, finally, those four classes of the audience. At this sight they felt struck with wonder, amazement, and rapture. And they heard a voice from the sky calling : Worthies, beyond a distance of an immense, incalculable number of hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of worlds there is the world named Saha ; there the Tath4gata called Saékyamuni, the Arhat, &c., is just now revealing to the Bodhisattvas Mah4sattvas the Dharmapary4ya of the Lotus of the True Law, a Sitranta of great extent, serving to instruct Bodhisattvas, and belonging in proper to all Buddhas. Ye accept it joyfully with all your heart, and do homage to the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tathagata, &c.
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.
1And on that occasion the Lord uttered the following stanzas : 1. I remember a past period, when king Bhtfshmasvara?, the Gina, lived, very mighty, and revered by gods and men, the leader of men, gods, goblins, and giants. 2. At the time succeeding the complete extinction of that Gina, when the decay of the true law 1 Updsaka, the masculine; this does not suit, but on the other hand it must be admitted that the omission of male devotees is not to be accounted for. Not unlikely some words have been left out by inadvertence, not only in the Cambridge MS., but also in the MSS. known to Burnouf. Cf., however, st. 9. 1 Bhishmasvaro raga gino yadasi. XIX. SADAPARIBHOTA. 361 was far advanced, there was a monk, a Bodhisattva, called by the name of Sad4paribhata. 3. Other monks and nuns who did not believe but in what they saw’, he would approach (and say): I never am to contemn you, for you observe the course leading to supreme enlightenment. 4. It was his wont always to utter those words, which brought him but abuse and taunts from their part. At the time when his death was impending he heard this Satra. 5. The sage, then, did not expire; he resolved upon? a very long life, and promulgated this Satra under the rule of that leader. 6. And those many (persons) who only acknowledged the evidence of sensual perception* were by him brought to full ripeness for enlightenment. Then, disappearing from that place, he propitiated thousands of kofis of Buddhas. 7. Owing to the successive good actions performed by him, and to his constantly promulgating this Sftra, that son of Gina reached enlightenment. That Bodhisattva then is myself, Sakyamuni. 8. And those persons who only believed in perception by the senses‘, those monks, nuns, male and female lay devotees who by the sage were admonished of enlightenment, 9. And who have seen many ko/is of Buddhas, 1 Upalambhadr?sh/ina; I am not sure of the correctness of this translation; Burnouf renders it by ‘qui ne voyaient que les objets extérieurs,’ which comes pretty much to the same. § Pratishshihitva (Sansk. pratish/Aaya) a sudirgham AyuA, properly ‘having stood still for a very long time of life.’ 5 Upalambhika. * Aupalambhika, a 262 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. NIN. are the monks here before me,—no less than five hundred,—nuns, and female lay devotees. 10. All of them have been by me brought to complete ripeness, and after my extinction they will all, full of wisdom, keep this Satra. 11. Not once in many, inconceivably many ko/is of Eons has such a Sfttra as this been heard. There are, indeed, hundreds of kofis of Buddhas, but they do not elucidate this Sftra. 12. Therefore let one who has heard this law exposed by the Self-born himself, and who has repeatedly propitiated him, promulgate this Stra after my extinction in this world. * The text has up4sik4A. XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 363 CHAPTER XxX. CONCEPTION OF THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS.
2* The text has up4sik4A. XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 363 CHAPTER XxX. CONCEPTION OF THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. Thereupon those hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas equal to the dust-atoms of a macrocosm, who had issued from the gaps of the earth, all stretched their joined hands towards the Lord, and said unto him: We, O Lord, will, after the complete extinction of the Tathagata, promulgate this Dharmapary4ya everywhere (or on -every occasion) in all Buddha-fields of the Lord, wherever (or whenever) the Lord shall be completely extinct! We are anxious to obtain this sublime Dharmapary4ya, O Lord, in order to keep, read, publish, and write it. Thereupon the hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas, headed by Mazgusrt; the monks, nuns, male and female lay devotees living in this world; the gods, Nagas, goblins, Gandharvas, demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men, and beings not human, and the many Bodhisattvas Mahifsattvas equal to the sands of the river Ganges, said unto the Lord: We also, O Lord, will promulgate this Dharmapary4ya after the complete extinction of the Tathagata. While standing with an invisible body in the sky, O Lord, we will send ' Hence follows that Nirvana is repeatedly entered into by the Lord. 364 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xx. forth a voice’, and plant the roots of goodness of such ‘creatures as have not (yet) planted roots of goodness. Then the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Visishéadaritra, followed by a troop, a great troop, the master of a troop, who was the very first of those afore-mentioned Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas followed by a troop, a great troop, masters of a troop: Very well, Visish/a#4ritra, very well; so you should do; it is for the sake of this Dharmapary4ya that the Tathagata has brought you to ripeness. Thereupon the Lord Sékyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the wholly extinct Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c., both seated on the throne in the centre of the Stipa’, commenced smiling to one another, and from their opened mouths stretched out their tongues, so that with their tongues they reached the Brahma-world, and from those two tongues issued many hundred thousand myriads of kofis of rays®. From each of those rays issued many hundred thousand myriads of kofis of Bodhisattvas, with goldcoloured bodies and possessed of the thirty-two characteristic signs of a great man, and seated on thrones consisting of the interior of lotuses. Those ? From this it appears that the abode of the monks &c. in the assembly of the Lord Sakyamuni is in the sky, at least occasionally. Their attribute of ‘an invisible body’ shows them to be identical with the videhas, the incorporeal ones, i. e. the spirits of the blessed departed, Arhats, Muktas, Pitaras. The Pitaras form the assembly of Dharmaraga. * Cf. Chapter XI.
3Their attribute of ‘an invisible body’ shows them to be identical with the videhas, the incorporeal ones, i. e. the spirits of the blessed departed, Arhats, Muktas, Pitaras. The Pitaras form the assembly of Dharmaraga. * Cf. Chapter XI. * It is quite true that the moon as well as the sun is sahasrarasmi, possessed of thousand rays, but it is difficult to understand how the Bhagavat Prabhfitaratna can show his magic power in his state of extinction, XX. TRANSCENDENT POWER OF THE TATHAGATAS. 365 Bodhisattvas spread in all directions in hundred thousands of worlds, and while on every side stationed in the sky preached the law. Just as the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c. produced a miracle of magic by his tongue, so, too, Prabhftaratna, the Tathagata, &c., and the other Tath4gatas, &c., who, having flocked from hundred thousands of myriads of kof¢is of other worlds, were seated on thrones at the foot of jewel trees, by their tongues produced a miracle of magic. The Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and all those Tathagatas, &c., produced that magical effect during fully a thousand! years. After the lapse of that millennium those Tathagatas, &c., pulled back their tongue, and all simultaneously, at the same moment, the same instant, made a great noise as of expectoration? and of snapping the fingers, by which sounds all the hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of Buddha-fields in every direction of space were moved, removed, stirred, wholly stirred, tossed, tossed forward, tossed along, and all beings in all those Buddha-fields, gods, Nagas, goblins, Gandharvas, demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men, and beings not human beheld, by the power of the Buddha, from the place where they stood, this Saha-world. They beheld the hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of Tathagatas seated severally on their throne at the foot of a jewel tree, and the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., wholly extinct, sitting on the throne in the centre of the 1 Burnouf has ‘a hundred thousand.’ * Utkdsana, better °sana. 366 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. xx. Stipa of magnificent precious substances, along with the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; they beheld, finally, those four classes of the audience. At this sight they felt struck with wonder, amazement, and rapture. And they heard a voice from the sky calling : Worthies, beyond a distance of an immense, incalculable number of hundred thousands of myriads of ko¢is of worlds there is the world named Saha ; there the Tath4gata called Saékyamuni, the Arhat, &c., is just now revealing to the Bodhisattvas Mah4sattvas the Dharmapary4ya of the Lotus of the True Law, a Sitranta of great extent, serving to instruct Bodhisattvas, and belonging in proper to all Buddhas. Ye accept it joyfully with all your heart, and do homage to the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tathagata, &c.
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