[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Aparimitāyurjñānahṛdayadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh) › [འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850) › [The Dharani “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000) › intro.3 # འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.3 The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom” intro.3 - **Language:** English ### [intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.3) He then begins a summary of the circumstances of Aparimitāyus’ lifetime as an awakened one. We learn that, like Śākyamuni, Aparimitāyus was born into a kṣatriya family. The Buddha then enumerates the names of Aparimitāyus’ father (a universal ruler), mother, queen, son, and attendant, and then those of his two foremost disciples in terms of insight and miraculous powers—the equivalent of Śākyamuni’s disciples Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana—and the extent of his saṅgha of hearers. This account, in following the classic paradigm that the life stories and deeds of all buddhas conform to the same template of analogous events and participants, goes further than even the best-known work of the genre, the Bhadrakalpika (Toh 94),¹ by adding the names of figures in Aparamitāyus’ realm who are the equivalents of Māra and Devadatta in Śākyamuni’s realm. - [Previous: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.2) - [Next: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.4) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.3) · Pramāṇa