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‘Then, O Ananda, that Bhikshu Dharmakara, having praised the Bhagavat, the Tathagata Lokesvararaga, in his presence, with those Gathas, spoke thus: “O Bhagavat, I wish to know the highest perfect knowledge. Again and again I raise and incline my thoughts towards the highest perfect knowledge. May therefore the Bhagavat, as a teacher, thus teach me the Law, that I may quickly know the highest perfect knowledge. May I become in the world a Tathâgata, equal to the The text is obscure, unequalled. And may the Bhagavat proclaim those signs by which I may comprehend the perfection of all good qualities of a Buddha country.”

‘After this, O Ananda, the Bhagavat Lokervarara, the Tathagata, thus spoke to that Bhikshu:

“Do you by yourself, O Bhikshu, know the perfection of all excellences and good qualities of a Buddha country”

‘He said: “O Bhagavat, I could not do this, but the Bhagavat alone. Explain the perfection of the excellences and all the good qualities of Buddha countries of the other Tathâgatas, after hearing which we may fulfil every one of their signs.’

‘Then, O Ananda, the Tathagata Lokesvararaga, holy and fully enlightened, knowing the good disposition of that Bhikshu, taught for a full koti of years the perfection of all the excellences and good qualities of Buddha countries belonging to eighty-one hundred thousand niyutas of kotis of Buddhas, together with the signs, indication, and description, desiring welfare, wishing for benefits, compassionate, full of compassion, so that there might never be an end of Buddha countries, having conceived great pity for all beings. The measure of life of that Tathagata was full forty kalpas.