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After these words, the Bodhisattva Aita thus spoke’to the Bhagavat: ‘O Bhagavat, will the Bodhisattvas, who have gone away from this Buddha country, or from the side of other blessed Buddhas, be born in the world Sukhavatt’

The Bhagavat said: ‘Indeed, O Aita, seventytwo niyutas of kotis of Bodhisattvas are gone away from this Buddha country, who will be born in the world SukhAvati; Bodhisattvas, who will never return, thanks to the stock of merit, which they have accumulated under many hundred thousand niyutas of koṭis of Buddhas. What then shall be said of those with smaller stocks of merit? I. Eighteen hundred niyutas of kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvati from the place of the Tathagata Dushprasaha. 2. There lives in the Eastern quarter the Tathagata named Ratnakara. From his place ninety kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvati. 3. Twenty-two kotls of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati from the place of the Tathagata 6yotishprabha. 4. Twenty-five koṭis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvati from the place of the TathA- gata Amitaprabha. 5. Sixty kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world SukhAvati from the place of the Tathagata Lokapradipa. 6. Sixty-four kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati from the place of the Tathagata Nâgabhibhu. 7. Twenty-five koṭis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvati from the place of the Tathagata Viragahprabha. 8. Sixteen kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world SukhAvati from the place of the Tathagata Siha. 9. Eighteen thousand Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhévatt from the place of the Tathagata Siwha (sic). 10. Eighty-one niyutas of koṭis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvatt from the place of the Tathagata Srikd¢a. 11. Ten niyutas of kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhivati from the place of the Tathagata Narendraraga. 12. Twelve thousand Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhâvati from the place of the Tathagata Balaébhigña. 13. Twenty-five kotis of Bodhisattvas', who have obtained strength, having gone to one place in one week of eight days, and having turned to the West during ninety hundred thousand niyutas of kotis of kalpas, will be born in the world Sukhâvatt from the place of the Tathagata Pushpadhvaa. 14. Twelve kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhivati from the place of the Tathagata Gvalanadhipati. 15. From the place of the Tathagata Vaisdradyaprapta, sixty-nine kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati, in order to see the Tathagata Amitabha, to bow before him, to worship him, to ask questions of him, and to consult him. For this reason, O Aita, I might proclaim during a full niyuta of kotis of kalpas the names of those Tathagatas, from whom the Bodhisattvas proceed in order to see that Tathagata Amitabha in the world Sukhâvati, to bow before him, and to worship him, and yet the end could not be reached.