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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 183<br />

78. The gods then with exultation paid him worship and adoration<br />

with divine flowers; and all the world, when the great saint had<br />

become all-wise, was full of brightness.<br />

79. Then the holy one descended and stood on his throne under the<br />

tree; there he passed seven days filled with the thought, ‘I have here<br />

attained perfect wisdom.’<br />

80. When the Bodhisattva had thus attained perfect knowledge, all<br />

beings became full of great happiness; and all the different universes<br />

were illumined <strong>by</strong> a great light.<br />

81. The happy earth shook in six different ways like an overjoyed<br />

woman, and the Bodhisattvas, each dwelling in his own special abode,<br />

assembled and praised him.<br />

82. ‘There has arisen the greatest of all beings, the Omniscient Allwise<br />

Arhat – a lotus, unsoiled <strong>by</strong> the dust of passion, sprung up from<br />

the lake of knowledge;<br />

83. ‘A cloud bearing the water of patience, pouring forth the ambrosia<br />

of the good Law, fostering all the seeds of merit, and causing all the<br />

shoots of healing to grow;<br />

84. ‘A thunderbolt with a hundred edges, the vanquisher of Māra,<br />

armed only with the weapon of patience; a gem fulfilling all desires, a<br />

tree of paradise, a jar of true good fortune, a cow that yields all that<br />

heart can wish;

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