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1Or 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. states, in the hells, the brute creation, Yama’s realm, the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara is a supporter. Even to the creatures in the gynaceums of this Saha-world has the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara, after metamorphosing himself into a woman, preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law. Verily, Padmasri, the Bodhisattva Mahisattva Gadgadasvara is the supporter of the creatures living in this Saha-world’. Under so many shapes, assumed at will, has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law to creatures. Yet, there is no diminution of wisdom, nor diminution of magic power in that good man?. So many, young man of good family, are the manifestations of knowledge by which this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara has made himself known in this Sahaworld. In other worlds also, similar to the sands of the river Ganges, he preaches the law, under the shape of a Bodhisattva to such as must be converted by a Bodhisattva; under the shape of a disciple to such as must be converted by a disciple; under the shape of a Pratyekabuddha to such as must be con- 1 Vayu, praza, breath of life, is the supporter of creatures. * Satpurusha; the real meaning is ‘the existing spirit ;’ air, breath, life, which shows itself in a diversity of forms. That living breath is not only the supporter of creatures, but also a constant admonisher of the transitoriness of life, who addresses his call to young and old, sages and fools, &c. The important mystic rite of inspiration and expiration is described by Spence Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 267; no less value is attached to praz4y4ma in the Yoga system and in Indian mysticism in general; see e.g. YogasAstra II, 49-51; Sarvadarsana-Sangraha, p. 175; the term pran4y4ma not only denotes stopping of the breath, as the Dictionaries explain it, but also the regulation and measuring of the breath. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 403 verted by a Pratyekabuddha; under the shape of a Tathagata to such as must be converted by a Tathagata. Nay, he will show to those who must be converted by a relic of the Tathagata himself such a relic, and to those who must be converted by complete extinction he will show himself completely extinct'. Such is the powerful knowledge, Padmasrt, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva is possessed of.
2Nay, he will show to those who must be converted by a relic of the Tathagata himself such a relic, and to those who must be converted by complete extinction he will show himself completely extinct'. Such is the powerful knowledge, Padmasrt, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva is possessed of. Thereafter the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt said to the Lord: The Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara then has planted good roots, Lord. What meditation is it, Lord, whereby the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, with unshaken firmness, has converted (or educated) so many creatures? Whereupon the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., replied to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt: It is, young man of good family, the meditation termed Sarvardpasandarsana. By steadiness in it has the Bodhisattva Mahdasattva Gadgadasvara so immensely promoted the weal of creatures. While this chapter of Gadgadasvara was being expounded?, all the eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of kofis of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who, along with the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara, had come to the Saha-world, obtained the 1 Gadgadasvara, being both inspiration and expiration, appears under the form of a dead corpse, and thereby converts fickle and thoughtless men. * It need not be observed that the chapter was not expounded, the Buddha being one of the dramatis persone, one of the interlocutors, but not the narrator. This confusion between epical and dramatical exposition is one of the most striking features of the Lotus. The Saddharma, the law of nature, may be said to have been expounded by the Tathagata, not, however, the composition which bears that title. pd2 404 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIII. meditation Sarvarfpasandarsana, and as to the number of Bodhisattvas MahAsattvas of this Saha-world obtaining the meditation Sarvaripasandarsana, it was beyond calculation. Then the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, after having paid great and ample worship to the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and at the Stdpa of relics of the Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., again mounted the tower made of seven precious substances, among the stir of the fields, the rain of lotuses, the noise of hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of musical instruments’, and with the eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas surrounding and following him, returned to his own Buddha-field. At his arrival there he said to the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c.: O Lord, I have in the Saha-world promoted the weal of creatures ; I have seen and saluted the Stipa of relics of the Lord Prabhdtaratna, the Tath4gata, &c.; I have seen and saluted the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; I have seen Mazgusri, the prince royal, as well as the Bodhisattva Bhaishagyaraga, who is possessed of mighty knowledge and impetuosity*, and the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Praddnasfra; and these eightyfour hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhi-
31 After a last effort the storm subsides. * This quality stamps Bhaishagyar4ga as Rudra; cf. Rig-veda II, 33, 7- He is essentially the same with Dhanvantari the physician, Arcitenens Apollo. He is, moreover, the same with Gadgadasvara, who is represented as breath of life. About the system of splitting up one natural phenomenon or abstraction into more beings, see p. 4, note. XXITI. GADGADASVARA, 405 sattvas MahAsattvas have all obtained the meditation termed Sarvar(pasandarsana. And while this relation of the going and coming of the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara was being delivered, forty-two thousand Bodhisattvas acquired the faculty of acquiescence in future things, and the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt acquired the meditation called the Lotus of the True Law. 406 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIV. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER CALLED THAT OF THE ALL-SIDED ONE, CON- TAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF AVALOKITESVARA}, Thereafter the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Akshayamati rose from his seat, put his upper robe upon one shoulder, stretched his joined hands towards the Lord, and said: For what reason, O Lord, is the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Avalokitesvara called Avalokitesvara? So he asked, and the Lord answered to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Akshayamati : All the hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of creatures, young man of good family, who in this world are suffering troubles will, if they hear the name of the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Avalokitesvara, be released from that mass of troubles. Those who shall keep the name of this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Avalokitesvara, young man of good family, will, if they fall into a great mass of fire, be delivered therefrom by virtue of the lustre of the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva. In case, young man of good family, creatures, carried off by the current of rivers, should implore the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Avalokitesvara, all rivers will afford them a ford. In case, young man of good family, many hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of creatures, sailing in a ship on the ocean, * A translation of this chapter from the Chinese has been published by Rev. S. Beal in his Catena, pp. 389-396. XXIV. THE ALL-SIDED ONE. 407 should see their bullion, gold, gems, pearls, lapis lazuli, conch shells, stones (?), corals, emeralds, Musdragalvas, read pearls(?), and other goods lost, and the ship by a vehement, untimely gale cast on the island of Giantesses?, and if in that ship a single being implores Avalokitesvara, all will be saved from that island of Giantesses. For that reason, young man of good family, the Bodhisattva MahAsattva Avalokitesvara is named Avalokitesvara?.
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.
1Or 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. states, in the hells, the brute creation, Yama’s realm, the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara is a supporter. Even to the creatures in the gynaceums of this Saha-world has the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara, after metamorphosing himself into a woman, preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law. Verily, Padmasri, the Bodhisattva Mahisattva Gadgadasvara is the supporter of the creatures living in this Saha-world’. Under so many shapes, assumed at will, has the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara preached this Dharmaparydya of the Lotus of the True Law to creatures. Yet, there is no diminution of wisdom, nor diminution of magic power in that good man?. So many, young man of good family, are the manifestations of knowledge by which this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara has made himself known in this Sahaworld. In other worlds also, similar to the sands of the river Ganges, he preaches the law, under the shape of a Bodhisattva to such as must be converted by a Bodhisattva; under the shape of a disciple to such as must be converted by a disciple; under the shape of a Pratyekabuddha to such as must be con- 1 Vayu, praza, breath of life, is the supporter of creatures. * Satpurusha; the real meaning is ‘the existing spirit ;’ air, breath, life, which shows itself in a diversity of forms. That living breath is not only the supporter of creatures, but also a constant admonisher of the transitoriness of life, who addresses his call to young and old, sages and fools, &c. The important mystic rite of inspiration and expiration is described by Spence Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 267; no less value is attached to praz4y4ma in the Yoga system and in Indian mysticism in general; see e.g. YogasAstra II, 49-51; Sarvadarsana-Sangraha, p. 175; the term pran4y4ma not only denotes stopping of the breath, as the Dictionaries explain it, but also the regulation and measuring of the breath. XXIII. GADGADASVARA. 403 verted by a Pratyekabuddha; under the shape of a Tathagata to such as must be converted by a Tathagata. Nay, he will show to those who must be converted by a relic of the Tathagata himself such a relic, and to those who must be converted by complete extinction he will show himself completely extinct'. Such is the powerful knowledge, Padmasrt, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva is possessed of.
2Nay, he will show to those who must be converted by a relic of the Tathagata himself such a relic, and to those who must be converted by complete extinction he will show himself completely extinct'. Such is the powerful knowledge, Padmasrt, the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva is possessed of. Thereafter the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt said to the Lord: The Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara then has planted good roots, Lord. What meditation is it, Lord, whereby the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, with unshaken firmness, has converted (or educated) so many creatures? Whereupon the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., replied to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt: It is, young man of good family, the meditation termed Sarvardpasandarsana. By steadiness in it has the Bodhisattva Mahdasattva Gadgadasvara so immensely promoted the weal of creatures. While this chapter of Gadgadasvara was being expounded?, all the eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of kofis of Bodhisattvas Mahdsattvas who, along with the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara, had come to the Saha-world, obtained the 1 Gadgadasvara, being both inspiration and expiration, appears under the form of a dead corpse, and thereby converts fickle and thoughtless men. * It need not be observed that the chapter was not expounded, the Buddha being one of the dramatis persone, one of the interlocutors, but not the narrator. This confusion between epical and dramatical exposition is one of the most striking features of the Lotus. The Saddharma, the law of nature, may be said to have been expounded by the Tathagata, not, however, the composition which bears that title. pd2 404 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIII. meditation Sarvarfpasandarsana, and as to the number of Bodhisattvas MahAsattvas of this Saha-world obtaining the meditation Sarvaripasandarsana, it was beyond calculation. Then the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Gadgadasvara, after having paid great and ample worship to the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., and at the Stdpa of relics of the Lord Prabhftaratna, the Tath4gata, &c., again mounted the tower made of seven precious substances, among the stir of the fields, the rain of lotuses, the noise of hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of musical instruments’, and with the eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhisattvas surrounding and following him, returned to his own Buddha-field. At his arrival there he said to the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatraragasankusumitabhig#a, the Tathagata, &c.: O Lord, I have in the Saha-world promoted the weal of creatures ; I have seen and saluted the Stipa of relics of the Lord Prabhdtaratna, the Tath4gata, &c.; I have seen and saluted the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c.; I have seen Mazgusri, the prince royal, as well as the Bodhisattva Bhaishagyaraga, who is possessed of mighty knowledge and impetuosity*, and the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Praddnasfra; and these eightyfour hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of Bodhi-
31 After a last effort the storm subsides. * This quality stamps Bhaishagyar4ga as Rudra; cf. Rig-veda II, 33, 7- He is essentially the same with Dhanvantari the physician, Arcitenens Apollo. He is, moreover, the same with Gadgadasvara, who is represented as breath of life. About the system of splitting up one natural phenomenon or abstraction into more beings, see p. 4, note. XXITI. GADGADASVARA, 405 sattvas MahAsattvas have all obtained the meditation termed Sarvar(pasandarsana. And while this relation of the going and coming of the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Gadgadasvara was being delivered, forty-two thousand Bodhisattvas acquired the faculty of acquiescence in future things, and the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Padmasrt acquired the meditation called the Lotus of the True Law. 406 SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA. XXIV. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER CALLED THAT OF THE ALL-SIDED ONE, CON- TAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF AVALOKITESVARA}, Thereafter the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Akshayamati rose from his seat, put his upper robe upon one shoulder, stretched his joined hands towards the Lord, and said: For what reason, O Lord, is the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Avalokitesvara called Avalokitesvara? So he asked, and the Lord answered to the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Akshayamati : All the hundred thousands of myriads of kofis of creatures, young man of good family, who in this world are suffering troubles will, if they hear the name of the Bodhisattva Mah4sattva Avalokitesvara, be released from that mass of troubles. Those who shall keep the name of this Bodhisattva Mahdsattva Avalokitesvara, young man of good family, will, if they fall into a great mass of fire, be delivered therefrom by virtue of the lustre of the Bodhisattva Mahdsattva. In case, young man of good family, creatures, carried off by the current of rivers, should implore the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Avalokitesvara, all rivers will afford them a ford. In case, young man of good family, many hundred thousand myriads of ko¢is of creatures, sailing in a ship on the ocean, * A translation of this chapter from the Chinese has been published by Rev. S. Beal in his Catena, pp. 389-396. XXIV. THE ALL-SIDED ONE. 407 should see their bullion, gold, gems, pearls, lapis lazuli, conch shells, stones (?), corals, emeralds, Musdragalvas, read pearls(?), and other goods lost, and the ship by a vehement, untimely gale cast on the island of Giantesses?, and if in that ship a single being implores Avalokitesvara, all will be saved from that island of Giantesses. For that reason, young man of good family, the Bodhisattva MahAsattva Avalokitesvara is named Avalokitesvara?.
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