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 1   1, 43 |       who came seeking religious merit, the pool itself received
 2   2, 12 |       Those who sought religious merit performed sacred works and
 3   6, 20 |         wealth; but heirs to his merit are hard to find on the
 4   7, 18 |         they say, is the root of merit.'~
 5   7, 28 |                          28. 'If merit is gained by purity of food,
 6   7, 28 |    purity of food, then there is merit also in the deer; and in
 7   7, 29 |     choice of pain is a cause of merit, why should not that same
 8   7, 39 |          whose mere presence the merit of these penances becomes
 9   7, 41 |       for the sake of preeminent merit; even one who was wise starting
10   8, 63 |        grudges me a share in his merit.~
11   9, 21 |         skilled in attaining the merit which leads to final bliss,-
12  10, 28 |      according to rule religious merit, wealth, and pleasure; for
13  10, 29 |       has overpowered wealth and merit, is wealth when it has conquered
14  10, 29 |     wealth when it has conquered merit and pleasure; so too it
15  10, 29 |       and pleasure; so too it is merit, when pleasure and wealth
16  10, 34 |           The old man can obtain merit by religion; old age is
17  12, 23 |             23. . Ignorance, the merit or demerit of former actions,
18  12, 89 |       and health by his previous merit.~
19  12, 92 |          vainly trying to attain merit, he practised self- mortification,
20  13, 58 | resolution, who has acquired his merit by a long course of actions
21  14, 71 |          existence lasts acquire merit.~
22  14, 82 |       fostering all the seeds of merit, and causing all the shoots
23  15, 56 |                      56. 'By the merit of that action I myself
24  15, 70 |      further development of this merit thou shalt become a Bodhisattva'-
25  16, 17 | according to their own will that merit is the cause of corporeal
26  16, 17 |  preserved (after death) for its merit is the cause of liberation.~
27  16, 19 |                          19. 'If merit and demerit are produced
28  16, 19 |           even in the absence of merit?~
29  16, 107|             107. A supply of the merit caused by the good Law,
30  16, 109|        himself purified by great merit and shall be prosperous
31  16, 112|         eight sublime rewards of merit.~
32  16, 122|        higher and most excellent merit is declared by all the Buddhas,
33  16, 123|       that comes this preeminent merit, as is declared by the Ginas.~
34  16, 125|       125. 'There is pre-eminent merit from the worship of one
35  16, 126|   Therefore there is pre-eminent merit from the worship of one
36  16, 126|          obtain this pre-eminent merit who hears this or causes
37  16, 127|       words, -pre-eminent is his merit from this.~
38  16, 132|        which causes transcendent merit; let them hear it and gladly
39  17, 31 |         may it become a store of merit for the production of right