45. And while this treatise of the Law was being
delivered, twelve kotis of niyutas of beings obtained the pure and spotless eye
of the Law with regard to Laws. Twenty-four hundred thousand niyutas of kotis
of beings obtained the Anagamin reward. Eight hundred Bhikshus had their
thoughts delivered from faults so as to cling no more to anything. Twenty-five
kotis of Bodhisattvas obtained resignation to things to come. And by forty
hundred thousand niyutas of kotis of the human and divine race, thoughts such
as had never risen before were turned toward the highest perfect knowledge, and
their stocks of merit were made to grow toward their being born in the world
Sukhavati, from a desire to see the Tathagata, the blessed Amitabha. And all of
them having been born thcre, will in proper order be born in other worlds, as
Tathagatas, called Mantgusvara (sweet-voiced). And eighty kotis of niyutas
having acquired resignation under the Tathagata Diparikara, never turning back
again from the highest perfect knowledge, rendered perfect by the Tathagata
Amitayus, practising the duties of former Bodhisattvas, will carry out, after
they are born in the world Sukhavati, the duties enjoined in the former
Pranidhanas (prayers).
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