[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) › [Sūtras of the Ratnakūṭa (Heap of Jewels) collection](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta) › [Siṃhaparipṛcchā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha) › [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo) › [Simha’s Questions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000) › notes.97 # འཕགས་པ་སང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.97 Siṃha’s Questions notes.97 - **Language:** English ### [notes.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.97) 97. For the last two pādas of this verse the Sanskrit reads, “I have ripened them when they showed promise of accomplishment” (paripācitā mayā caite yadā siddhipradāyakāḥ ||). Taishō 310 also includes “When I came before the Buddha Dīpaṅkara as a young brahmin I brought them to ripen” (而我往在然燈佛時。作婆羅門子成熟於彼). This addition, implying that the Buddha was there with the five hundred brahmin boys, relates to the narrative of the brahmin Megha, a previous incarnation of the Buddha Śākyamuni who made an offering to the Buddha Dīpaṅkara and received from him the prophecy that he would someday attain buddhahood as Śākyamuni. The Mahāvastu recounts this narrative while also mentioning five hundred brahmins who were fellow students of Megha, although it does not mention them going before Dīpaṅkara. See Conze 1973, pp. 20–24. - [Previous: notes.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.96) - [Next: notes.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.98) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.ratnakuta.simhapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.97) · Pramāṇa