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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

An English translation of this famous life of the Buddha, one of the great pieces of Sanskrit literature, with additions to help complete the text.

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<strong>Buddha</strong>-<strong>carita</strong>, <strong>or</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong> - 217<br />

110. ‘He shall become a universal monarch, a king <strong>of</strong> kings, and even<br />

a ruler among the guardians <strong>of</strong> the w<strong>or</strong>ld, an Indra ruler <strong>of</strong> the gods,<br />

and even the ruler <strong>of</strong> the Yāma heaven,<br />

111. ‘Yea, the ruler <strong>of</strong> the Tuṣita heaven, and the ruler <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Sunirmitāḥ, and the king <strong>of</strong> the Vaśavartinaḥ, and the l<strong>or</strong>d <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Brahmaloka;<br />

112. ‘Yea, Mahābrahman, the highest <strong>of</strong> Sages, and in the end he shall<br />

even become a <strong>Buddha</strong>, – he, possessing a th<strong>or</strong>oughly pure<br />

intelligence, shall obtain these eight sublime rewards <strong>of</strong> merit.<br />

113. ‘And he who, th<strong>or</strong>oughly intent, with a believing heart, and filled<br />

with faith and devotion, shall hear this method <strong>of</strong> the Law as it is<br />

preached,<br />

114. ‘He shall have his intellect made perfectly pure, his mind calmed<br />

with boundless charity, and his soul happy with boundless compassion,<br />

and he shall be filled with boundless joy;<br />

115. ‘His soul constantly calm with universal indifference, rejoicing in<br />

the four contemplations, having reached the ecstatic state <strong>of</strong> absolute<br />

indifference, and with his senses abolished,<br />

116. ‘With the five transcendent faculties attained, and destroying the<br />

aggregate <strong>of</strong> latent impressions, he, endowed with supernatural<br />

powers, will attain the samādhi called Sūraṅgama.

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