ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 35.12

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and manifested arhatship.

After achieving arhatship, he wondered, “Whom might I tame?” He looked out and saw that he could tame the lord of the sacrifice and the rest of the many brahmins. So he disappeared from the garden of Prince Jeta, and made his way to the site of the sacrifice. The lord of the sacrifice and the other brahmins saw a monk approaching through the sky, and seeing this they felt a surge of joy toward the monk. In their joy they took him into their laps, placed him in his seat, bowed down at his feet, and sat before him to listen to the Dharma.

Then the monk taught them the Dharma particularly suited to them, and among the brahmins and the lord of the sacrifice some generated heat right where they sat. Some generated the peak, or generated the patience in accord with the truths, or generated the highest worldly dharma, or generated the attainment of seeing. Some manifested the resultant state of stream entry. Some manifested the resultant state of once-return. Some manifested the resultant state of non-return. Some went forth and manifested arhatship. Some sowed the seeds to become universal monarchs, some to become great universal monarchs, some to become Indra, some to become Brahmā, some for the enlightenment of the listeners, some for the enlightenment of the solitary buddhas, and some for unexcelled, total, and complete enlightenment. Among the assembled, most found themselves drawn to the Buddha, intent on the Dharma, and favoring the Saṅgha.

“Lord,” the monks asked the Blessed Buddha, “what action did this brahmin take that ripened into his pleasing the Blessed One, and not displeasing him, and that he went forth in the doctrine of the Blessed One, cast away all afflictive emotions, and manifested arhatship?”

“It came about by the power of his prayers,” the Blessed One replied.

“Lord, where did he make these prayers?”

“Monks, in times past, in this fortunate eon, when people lived as long as twenty thousand years and the tathāgata, the arhat, the totally and completely awakened buddha possessed of insight and perfect conduct, the sugata, the knower of the world, the tamer of persons, the charioteer, the unsurpassed one,