vihimsasaññî pagunam na bhâsi
dhammam panîtam manugesu, Brahma; iti.
Then in prose: Atha kho Brahmâ Sahampati katâvakâso kho ’mhi bhagavatâ dhammadesanâyâ ’ti bhagavantam abhivâdetvâ padakkhiwaw katvâ tatth’ ev’ antaradhâyi.
The parallel passage in Lalita-vistara, p. 520, 19 seq., has:
Atha khalu Sikhî Mahâbrahmâ Tathâgatasyâdhivâsanâm viditvâ tushta udagra âttamanâ pramuditah prîtisaumanasyagâtas Tathâgatasya pâdau sirasâbhivanditvâ tatraivântaradhât.
At the meeting of the Âgîvaka monk Upaka and the Buddha, the latter is represented as having pronounced the following slokas (Mahâvagga I, 6, 8 and 9) :
na me âkariyo atthi, sadiso me na viggati,
sadevakasmim lokasmim n’ atthi me patipuggalo.
aham hi arahâ loke, aham satthâ, anuttaro,
eko ’mhi sammâsambuddho, sîtibhûto ’smi nibbuto.
mâdisâ ve Ginâ honti ye pattâ âsavakkhayam,
gitâ me pâpakâ dhammâ tasmâham Upaka[3] gino.
Materially the same slokas, albeit in somewhat different arrangement, occur Lalita-vistara, p. 536, 22 seq., as being spoken at the same meeting:
- ↑ Read tesham, if not tesam, because a contraction of am and a following vowel into one syllable is as common as one of âm is unheard of.
- ↑ These words do not suit the metre, and have undoubtedly been transposed from their original place, which they have kept in the Pâli text.
- ↑ Rather Upakâ, a common Prâkrit form of the vocative case. See Sukhâvatî-vyuha, p. xi, in Anecdota Oxoniensia, Aryan Series, vol. i, part ii.
- ↑ Read aham evâraham (Sanskrit arhan).
- ↑ The Calc. ed. has wrongly °dharvo and °puṅgalah.
