Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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"Good friend! Do not renounce the kingdom. On the seventh day, a Wheel of Paramountcy (cakra -ratna) will arise to help thee. You will have a vast empire extended over four great isles and 2000 islets. So come back. Do not go further".
Bodhi-sattva - "Who are you"?
Mara- "I am a god belonging to the Heaven of Vasavarti".
Bodhi-sattva "I know it perfectly well that a wheel of Paramountcy will arise before me; but I am not keen to have an empire. I shall be a Buddha inspiring and resounding through thousands of human material".
But Mara issued forth his warning,
"Let me see how you do not fall a prey to the thoughts regarding lust, malice and causing injury even once".
Thereafter, he followed him like a shadow.
In this manner, the Bodhi-sattva abandoned the empire of a Chakravarti like a spittle and moved out from his own city in the full-moon night of Agadha when the star Uttarāgādha was up. No sooner had he moved out of the city than he felt a desire to have a look at the city. At once, the Earth began to shake like the potter's wheel as if communicating her disapproval in the following words:
'Great man! In the course of your life, you have never turned to look at the rear. '
At the place where the Bodhi-sattva felt the desire to look at the city, a caityd came up named Kanthakanivartaka-caitya. He resumed his journey again attended with respect and fortune. At that time, 60, 000 gods were moving with him, on his left and right and on his rear, with burning torches in their hands. At the doors of the cakravalas, innumerable torches were lit. Many gods, nagas, suparnas, and others appeared at the sky and worshipped the Bodhisattva with divine incences, wreaths, powders and perfumes, and scattered various flowers like pārijāta, man