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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
givers of security from danger, vision, life, resort, knowledge, and religious precepts, propounders of religion, leaders of religion, charioteers in driving the chariot of religion, excellent universal monarchs, possessed of highest kind of unin peded knowledge and perception, transcended delusion, victors, or conquerors of passions, who have crossed the ocean of worldly existence, saviours of the world, enlighteners of others, liberated from the whirl-pool of the world, liberators of others, omniscients, omnipresents, who have attained the place known as perfection which is blissful permanent, free from physical weaknesses and illness, infinite, imperishable, free from distress and whence there is no return. I pay my homage from this very place to the blessed ascetic Lord Mahāvir (who is ) desirous of attaining beatitude, (and is now) halting there (in Amalkappā). Let the Lord take into cognizence remaining there (the homage paid by me from this place). Thus saying he saluted, paid obeisance, and having paid homage he took his seat on the throne facing to the east.
(6). Then there arose this sort of inner thoughts, faucies, determinations, and reflections,
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