The Lotus Sūtra 17.17
Nepalese recension (Kern & Nanjio 1908–1912; DSBC input) 17.17
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17.17
niṣadya cāsau pariṣāya tatra śuklena karmeṇa kṛtena tena /
śakrāsanānāṃ bhavate sa lābhī brahmāsanānāṃ ca nṛpāsanānām //
10. And if the creature so exhorted should hear the Sûtra even for a moment, hark what fruit is to result from that action. He shall never have a mouth disease;
17.17.p1
iti śrīsaddharmapuṇḍarīke dharmaparyāye anumodanāpuṇyanirdeśaparivarto nāma saptadaśamaḥ ||
17.17.p2
: dharmabhāṇakānuśaṃsāparivartaḥ |
17.17.p3
atha khalu bhagavān satatasamitābhiyuktaṃ bodhisattvaṃ mahāsattvamāmantrayāmāsa - yaḥ kaścit kulaputra imaṃ dharmaparyāyaṃ dhārayiṣyati vācayiṣyati vā deśayiṣyati vā likhiṣyati va, sa kulaputro vā kuladuhitā va aṣṭau cakṣurguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate, dvādaśa śrotraguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate, aṣṭau ghrāṇaguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate, dvādaśa jihvāguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate, aṣṭau kāyaguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate, dvādaśa manoguṇaśatāni pratilapsyate | tasyaibhirbahubhirguṇaśataiḥ ṣaḍindriyagrāmaḥ pariśuddhaḥ supariśuddho bhaviṣyati | sa evaṃ pariśuddhena cakṣurindriyeṇa prākṛtena māṃsacakṣuṣā mātāpitṛsaṃbhavena trisāhasramahāsāhasrāṃ lokadhātuṃ sāntarbahiḥ saśailavanaṣaṇḍāmadho yāvadavīcimahānirayamupādāya upari ca yāvat bhavāgraṃ tat sarvaṃ drakṣyati prākṛtena māṃsacakṣuṣā | ye ca tasmin sattvā upapannāḥ, tān sarvān drakṣyati, karmavipākaṃ ca teṣāṃ jñāsyatīti ||
17.17.p4
atha khalu bhagavāṃstasyāṃ velāyāmimā gāthā abhāṣata -
Translations (1)
- The Saddharma-puṇḍarîka or The Lotus of the True Law (SBE 21) — Hendrik Kern 1884, English
Linked texts (1)
- དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan