[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Other Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other) › [Mahāraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana) › [འཕགས་པ་སྒྲ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo) › [The Great Rumble](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000) › 5 # འཕགས་པ་སྒྲ་ཆན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5 The Great Rumble 5 - **Language:** English ### [5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000.5) “Ānanda, the same may be said of the western continent of Godānīya, measuring nine thousand leagues in length and breadth,” including everything stated above, from “were filled with stream-enterers…” “Ānanda, the same may be said of the northern continent of Kuru, measuring ten thousand leagues in length and breadth,” including everything stated above, from “were filled with stream-enterers…” “Ānanda, Śakra’s Palace of Victory is supported by eighty-four thousand pillars, each of which is made of exquisite blue beryl. Ānanda, the Palace of Victory is covered in gold dust, sprinkled with sandalwood water, decorated with golden lattice, and encircled with golden chimes. Ānanda, what if someone were to fill the trichiliocosm only with palaces like the Palace of Victory and offer it to the saṅgha of monks throughout the four directions, while someone else were to take a relic the size of a mustard seed after a thus-gone one’s parinirvāṇa…” and so forth as above. “Ānanda, after Ajātaśatru, son of Vaidehī and king of Magadha, murders his father who is a stream enterer,⁴ and has engaged in the virtuous acts praised by the buddhas to fervently respect, venerate, serve, worship, honor, and supplicate the eight portions of the relics⁵ as a way of worshiping the relics of the Thus-Gone One, he will be reborn once in the hells, where those actions, those roots of virtue, and those past wholesome deeds will free him and prevent him from regressing to lower rebirth for the next twenty eons. He will then shave his head and beard, don the saffron robes, and go forth from his home into homelessness. He will manifest the state of a pratyekabuddha and become known as Vijayasena the pratyekabuddha. Why? Because the thus-gone, worthy, and completely perfected buddhas possess these immeasurable qualities: - [Previous: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000.4) - [Next: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000.6) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སྒྲ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo.5) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.maharana*bo~en-84000.5) · Pramāṇa