Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.4082
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.4082
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v2.c36.4082
Some merchants had commissioned a ship, and, while searching for a captain, thought of Suppāraka. When Suppāraka refused, saying that he was blind, they replied that blind he might be, but no ship could founder if he were at the helm. After seven days the ship was caught in a storm and Suppāraka drove her through various oceans—Khuramālā, Aggimālā, Dadhimālā, Nilavaṇṇakusamālā, Nalamālā and Vaḷabhāmukha. When he arrived at the last sea he saw that there was no means of rescuing the ship, and so performed an act of Truth. In one day the ship sailed back to Bhārukaccha.