A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.114

v2.c19.s6.t4.114

[^1): In the Vajracchedikā, Chapt. 13, Buddha is made to say words to the effect that he who "selects merely one four-footed verse here from this sermon (the Vajr. contains 2 Gāthās in Chapt., 26 and one Gāthā in the last chapter), and explains it to others," acquires greater religious merit than a person who might sacrifice his life day by day for aeons, cf. *Walleser*, Prajñāpāramitā, p. 146 f., 149 ff. In the fragment of the Adhyardhaśatikā Pr. from Khotan (*Leumann*, Zur nordarischen Sprache und Litteratur, p. 89) it is even said that he who "even while still in the womb" hears this section of the Pr., is freed from all attacks and dangers, and never goes to hell or is reborn in any other evil form of existence.