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འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.8

The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 5.8

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5.8

He returned and said to his father, ‘Their time of death had come.’

“Then Jalavāhana, the head merchant’s son, having heard those words, went to King Sureśvara­prabha and told him in detail what had occurred: ‘The time of death had come to all those ten thousand fish, and they were reborn among the devas of Trāyastriṃśa. It is through their and my³⁶⁷ power that those good signs appeared last night. There also fell a rain of forty thousand strings of pearls and divine coral tree flowers in my home.’

“Then the king was happy, pleased, and overjoyed.”

The Bhagavat then said to the goddess Bodhisattvasamuccayā, “Noble goddess, do not hold the view of thinking that at that time, in that time, King Sureśvara­prabha was anyone else. Why is that? It is because during that time the Śākya Daṇḍapāṇi was King Sureśvara­prabha.

“Noble goddess, do not hold the view of thinking that at that time, in that time, the head merchant Jaṭiṃdhara was anyone else. Why is that? It is because during that time King Śuddhodana was the head merchant Jaṭiṃdhara.

“Noble goddess, do not hold the view of thinking that at that time, in that time, Jalavāhana, the head merchant’s son, was anyone else. Why is that? It is because during that time I was Jalavāhana, the head merchant’s son.

“Noble goddess, do not hold the view of thinking that at that time, in that time, his wife, Jalāmbuja­garbhā, was anyone else. Why is that? It is because during that time the Śākya maiden Gopā was his wife, Jalāmbuja­garbhā.

“Rāhula was at that time the son Jalāmbara, and Ānanda was at that time the son Jalagarbha.

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