THE SMALLER SUKHAVATI-VYUHA ADORATION TO THE OMNISCIENT
Thus it was heard by me: At one time the Blessed (Bhagavat, i.e. Buddha) dwelt at SrAvastt }, in the Geta-grove, in the garden of Andthapindaka, together with a large company of Bhikshus (mendicant friars), viz. with twelve hundred and fifty Bhikshus, all of them acquainted with the five kinds of knowledge, elders, great disciples *, and Arhats , such as Sâriputra, the elder, Mahamaudgalydyana, MahakAsyapa, Mahakapphiza, Mahakâtyaâyana, Mahakaush¢dila, Revata, Suddhipanthaka, Nanda, Ananda, Râhula, Gavâmpati, Bharadvaa, Kâlodayin, Vakkula, and Aniruddha. He dwelt together with these and many other great disciples, and together with many noble-minded Bodhisattvas, such as Mazgusrt, the prince, the Bodhisattva Aita, the Bodhisattva Gandhahastin, the Bodhisattva Nityodyukta, the Bodhisattva Anikshiptadhura. He dwelt together with them and many other noble-minded Bodhisattvas, and with Sakra, the Indra or King of the Devas, and with Brahman Sahâmpati. With these and many other hundred thousand nayutas! of sons of the gods, Bhagavat dwelt at 6ravastl.