The Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order by W. Woodhill Rockhill

Author:W. Woodhill Rockhill [Rockhill, W. Woodhill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136379444
Google: 5Z35AQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05T04:54:05+00:00

Then he thought, “If Vaidehiputra Adjatasatru, who has such infinite faith, suddenly heard that the Blessed One has died, he would die of a hemorrhage. I must devise some means of informing him of it.” So he told the brahman Varshakâra, the great noble of Magadha, of the danger to Adjatasatru of suddenly hearing of this event, and he added, “ Go quickly, Varshakâra, into the park and have made representations (ri-mo) (r.) of the Blessed One having examined the five subjects while living as a bodhisttava in the Tushita heaven (seep. 15), and having three times expounded the truth to the six Kâmâvatcharas devas,1 coming to enter his mother’s womb as an elephant; (2.) acquiring perfect and unsurpassable enlightenment at the foot of the Bo tree; .. . (6.) having converted different persons in many places, and having reached the end of a buddha’s career, (represent him) in his last wrappings (gzims-mal-du), in the town of Kusinârâ. Then get ready seven tubs full of fresh butter, and one With pieces of goçirsha sandal-wood. When the king shall come to the gate of the park, you must ask him if he would not like to see it; and when he shall come to the pictures, you will explain them to him, commencing with the first. When he shall have heard that the Blessed One is dead, he will fall to the ground ; then you must put him into one of the tubs of fresh butter, and when the butter shall have melted, you must put him into another, and so successively in the seven (f. 637supasup); after which you must put him into the tub with the pieces of goçirsha sandal-wood, and he will recover.” After giving these instructions, Mahâkâçyapa started for Kusinârâ, and Varshakâra did as he had told him, and Adjatasatru’s life was saved.

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