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1Mounted on a tower made of seven precious substances, he moved through the sky to a height of seven T4las}, surrounded by a host of Bodhi- ~ 1 Or spans. There are seven regions of winds. VAyu, the god of wind or air, is nearly akin to Indra and Vishzu. 398 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. Xxmt. sattvas, in the direction of this Saha-world, and approached the Gvzdhrakféa, the king of mountains. At his arrival, he alighted from the tower, and went, with a necklace of pearls worth a hundred thousands, to the place where the Lord was sitting. After humbly saluting the feet of the Lord, and circumambulating him seven times from left to right, he offered him the necklace of pearls in token of homage, whereafter he said to the Lord: The Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitébhigza, the Tathagata, &c., inquires after the Lord’s health, welfare, and sprightliness; whether he feels free from affliction and at ease. That Lord has also charged me to ask: Is there something thou hast to suffer or allow'? the humours of the body are not in an unfavourable state? thy creatures are decent in manners, tractable, and easy to be healed? their bodies are clean? They are not too passionate, I hope, not too irascible, not too unwise in their doings ? They are not jealous, Lord, not envious, not ungrateful to their father and mother, not impious, not heterodox, not unsubdued in mind, not unrestrained in sexual desires? Are the creatures able to resist the Evil One? Has the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tathagata, &c., who is completely extinct, come to the Saha-world in order to hear the law, sitting in the centre of a Stipa made of seven precious substances? And as to that, Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, inquires: Is there some- 1 Yapaniya; it is a usual medical term applied to diseases which can be alleviated to a certain extent by means of palliatives, but can no longer be cured. It is manifest from the sequel that here also the term is derived from medical practice. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 399 thing that the Lord Prabhdtaratna, &c., has to suffer or allow? Is the Lord Prabhitaratna, &c., to stay long? We also, O Lord, are desirous of seeing the rudimentary frame’! of that Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c. May the Lord therefore please to show us the rudimentary frame of the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tath4gata, &c. Then the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., said to the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., who was completely extinct: Lord, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara here wishes to see the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tath4gata, &c., who is completely extinct. Whereon the Lord Prabhdataratna, the Tathagata, &c., spoke to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara in this strain: Well done, well done, young gentleman, that thou hast come hither in the desire to see the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; to hear this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law, and see Maggusri, the prince royal.
2Subsequently the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt said to the Lord: What root of goodness has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara formerly planted? And in presence of which Tathagata ? And the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., said to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt: In the days of yore, young man of good family, at a past period? there appeared in the world a Tathagata called Meghadundubhisvarardga (i.e. the king of the drum-sound of the clouds), perfectly enlightened, endowed with science and conduct, a Sugata, &c., in 1 DhAtuvigraha, the frame of the elementary parts, of the bone relics. * In the margin is added the common phrase, ‘at a time more incalculable than incalculable Afons.’ - 400 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA, XXII. the world Sarvabuddhasandarsana (i. e. sight or display of all Buddhas), in the AZon Priyadarsana. To that Lord Meghadundubhisvarar4ga the Bodhisattva Mahisattva Gadgadasvara paid homage by making resound hundred thousands of musical instruments during twelve thousand years. He presented to him also eighty-four thousand vessels of seven precious substances. Under the preaching! of the Tathagata Meghadundubhisvarar4ga, young man of good family, has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara obtained such a beauty as he now displays. Perhaps, young man of good family, thou hast some doubt, uncertainty or misgiving, (and thinkest) that at that time, that epoch, there was another Bodhisattva Mahasattva called Gadgadasvara, who paid that homage to the Lord Meghadundubhisvararaga, the Tathagata, and presented him the eighty-four thousand vessels. But, young man of good family, do not think so. For it was the very same Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, young man of good family, who paid that homage to the Lord Meghadundubhisvarar4ga, the Tath4gata, and presented to him the eighty-four thousand vessels. So, young man of good family, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara has waited upon many Buddhas, has planted good roots under many Buddhas, and prepared the soil under each of them. And this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara had previouslyseen Lords Buddhas similar to the sands of the river Ganges. Dost thou see, Padmasri, how the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara now looks? Padmasri replied: I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, The Lord said: Now, Padmasri, this Bodhisattva 1 Pravakane. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 401
3Dost thou see, Padmasri, how the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara now looks? Padmasri replied: I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, The Lord said: Now, Padmasri, this Bodhisattva 1 Pravakane. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 401 Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law under many shapes he assumes; sometimes! under the shape of Brahma, sometimes under that of Indra, sometimes under that of Siva, sometimes under that of Kubera, sometimes under that of a sovereign, sometimes under that of a duke, sometimes under that of a chief merchant, sometimes under that of a citizen, sometimes under that of a villager, sometimes under that of a Brahman*, Sometimes again the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparyd4ya of the Lotus of the True Law under a monk’s shape, sometimes under a nun’s, sometimes under a male lay devotee’s, sometimes under a female lay devotee’s, sometimes under that of a chief merchant’s wife, sometimes under that of a citizen’s wife, sometimes under a boy’s, sometimes under a girl's shape. With so many variations in the manner to show himself?, the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law to creatures. He has even assumed the shape of a goblin to preach this Dharmapary4ya to such as were to be converted by a goblin. To some he has preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law under the shape of a demon, to some under a Garuda’s, to some under a Kinnara’s, to some under a great serpent’s shape. Even to the beings in any of the wretched ? Or somewhere. * From this one may infer that Gadgadasvara, i.e. he who has an interrupted sound, is Vayu, avedpua, inspiration personified. Ma-~terially, though not mythologically, Wind is identical with Rudra, Storm. 5 Tyadbhi ripasandarsanery4pathaif. (21) pd 402 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIII.
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.
1Mounted on a tower made of seven precious substances, he moved through the sky to a height of seven T4las}, surrounded by a host of Bodhi- ~ 1 Or spans. There are seven regions of winds. VAyu, the god of wind or air, is nearly akin to Indra and Vishzu. 398 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. Xxmt. sattvas, in the direction of this Saha-world, and approached the Gvzdhrakféa, the king of mountains. At his arrival, he alighted from the tower, and went, with a necklace of pearls worth a hundred thousands, to the place where the Lord was sitting. After humbly saluting the feet of the Lord, and circumambulating him seven times from left to right, he offered him the necklace of pearls in token of homage, whereafter he said to the Lord: The Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitébhigza, the Tathagata, &c., inquires after the Lord’s health, welfare, and sprightliness; whether he feels free from affliction and at ease. That Lord has also charged me to ask: Is there something thou hast to suffer or allow'? the humours of the body are not in an unfavourable state? thy creatures are decent in manners, tractable, and easy to be healed? their bodies are clean? They are not too passionate, I hope, not too irascible, not too unwise in their doings ? They are not jealous, Lord, not envious, not ungrateful to their father and mother, not impious, not heterodox, not unsubdued in mind, not unrestrained in sexual desires? Are the creatures able to resist the Evil One? Has the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tathagata, &c., who is completely extinct, come to the Saha-world in order to hear the law, sitting in the centre of a Stipa made of seven precious substances? And as to that, Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, inquires: Is there some- 1 Yapaniya; it is a usual medical term applied to diseases which can be alleviated to a certain extent by means of palliatives, but can no longer be cured. It is manifest from the sequel that here also the term is derived from medical practice. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 399 thing that the Lord Prabhdtaratna, &c., has to suffer or allow? Is the Lord Prabhitaratna, &c., to stay long? We also, O Lord, are desirous of seeing the rudimentary frame’! of that Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c. May the Lord therefore please to show us the rudimentary frame of the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tath4gata, &c. Then the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., said to the Lord Prabhitaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., who was completely extinct: Lord, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara here wishes to see the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tath4gata, &c., who is completely extinct. Whereon the Lord Prabhdataratna, the Tathagata, &c., spoke to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara in this strain: Well done, well done, young gentleman, that thou hast come hither in the desire to see the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; to hear this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law, and see Maggusri, the prince royal.
2Subsequently the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt said to the Lord: What root of goodness has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara formerly planted? And in presence of which Tathagata ? And the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., said to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt: In the days of yore, young man of good family, at a past period? there appeared in the world a Tathagata called Meghadundubhisvarardga (i.e. the king of the drum-sound of the clouds), perfectly enlightened, endowed with science and conduct, a Sugata, &c., in 1 DhAtuvigraha, the frame of the elementary parts, of the bone relics. * In the margin is added the common phrase, ‘at a time more incalculable than incalculable Afons.’ - 400 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA, XXII. the world Sarvabuddhasandarsana (i. e. sight or display of all Buddhas), in the AZon Priyadarsana. To that Lord Meghadundubhisvarar4ga the Bodhisattva Mahisattva Gadgadasvara paid homage by making resound hundred thousands of musical instruments during twelve thousand years. He presented to him also eighty-four thousand vessels of seven precious substances. Under the preaching! of the Tathagata Meghadundubhisvarar4ga, young man of good family, has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara obtained such a beauty as he now displays. Perhaps, young man of good family, thou hast some doubt, uncertainty or misgiving, (and thinkest) that at that time, that epoch, there was another Bodhisattva Mahasattva called Gadgadasvara, who paid that homage to the Lord Meghadundubhisvararaga, the Tathagata, and presented him the eighty-four thousand vessels. But, young man of good family, do not think so. For it was the very same Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, young man of good family, who paid that homage to the Lord Meghadundubhisvarar4ga, the Tath4gata, and presented to him the eighty-four thousand vessels. So, young man of good family, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara has waited upon many Buddhas, has planted good roots under many Buddhas, and prepared the soil under each of them. And this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara had previouslyseen Lords Buddhas similar to the sands of the river Ganges. Dost thou see, Padmasri, how the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara now looks? Padmasri replied: I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, The Lord said: Now, Padmasri, this Bodhisattva 1 Pravakane. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 401
3Dost thou see, Padmasri, how the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara now looks? Padmasri replied: I do, Lord; I do, Sugata, The Lord said: Now, Padmasri, this Bodhisattva 1 Pravakane. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 401 Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law under many shapes he assumes; sometimes! under the shape of Brahma, sometimes under that of Indra, sometimes under that of Siva, sometimes under that of Kubera, sometimes under that of a sovereign, sometimes under that of a duke, sometimes under that of a chief merchant, sometimes under that of a citizen, sometimes under that of a villager, sometimes under that of a Brahman*, Sometimes again the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparyd4ya of the Lotus of the True Law under a monk’s shape, sometimes under a nun’s, sometimes under a male lay devotee’s, sometimes under a female lay devotee’s, sometimes under that of a chief merchant’s wife, sometimes under that of a citizen’s wife, sometimes under a boy’s, sometimes under a girl's shape. With so many variations in the manner to show himself?, the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara preaches this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law to creatures. He has even assumed the shape of a goblin to preach this Dharmapary4ya to such as were to be converted by a goblin. To some he has preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law under the shape of a demon, to some under a Garuda’s, to some under a Kinnara’s, to some under a great serpent’s shape. Even to the beings in any of the wretched ? Or somewhere. * From this one may infer that Gadgadasvara, i.e. he who has an interrupted sound, is Vayu, avedpua, inspiration personified. Ma-~terially, though not mythologically, Wind is identical with Rudra, Storm. 5 Tyadbhi ripasandarsanery4pathaif. (21) pd 402 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIII.
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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