..续本文上一页lion” — this, monks, is a name for the Tathaagata, the Holy One (Arahant), the Perfectly Enlightened One. When, monks, the Tathaagata expounds the Dhamma in an assembly, that is his ”lion”s roar.”

　　"There are, monks, these ten Tathaagata powers[17] of a Tathaagata, endowed with which the Tathaagata claims the foremost rank, utters his lion”s roar in the assemblies and sets rolling the supreme wheel (of his Dhamma).[18] What are these ten Tathaagata powers

　　(1) "Herein, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, cause as cause and non-cause as non-cause.[19] This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata, and because of that power he claims the foremost rank, utters his lion”s roar in the assemblies and sets rolling the supreme wheel (of his Dhamma).

　　(2) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, by way of cause and root condition,[20] the result of past, future and present actions that are performed. This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata, and because of that power...

　　(3) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, the way leading to all (destinies).[21] This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata, and because of that power...

　　(4) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, the world with its many and different elements.[22] This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata...

　　(5) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, the different dispositions[23] of beings. This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata...

　　(6) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, the improvement and decline in the faculties[24] of other beings, other persons. This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata...

　　(7) "And again, the Tathaagata understands, as it really is, with regard to the meditative absorptions, the (eight) liberations, the (types of) concentration and (the nine meditative) attainments,[25] their defects and purity, and the emergence from them. This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata...

　　(8) "And again, the Tathaagata recollects his manifold past lives, that is to say, one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births, many aeons of world contraction, many aeons of world expansion, many aeons of world contraction and expansion; there he was so named, of such a race, with such an appearance, such kind of food, such experience of pleasure and pain, such an end of his life span; and passing away from there, he reappeared elsewhere; and there too he was so named, of such a race, with such an appearance, such kind of food, such experience of pleasure and pain, such an end , of his life span; and passing away from there, he reappeared here; thus with their aspects and particulars he recollects his manifold past lives.[26] This is a Tathaagata power of the Tathaagata...

　　(9) "And again, with the pine eye, which is purified and surpasses the human, the Tathaagata sees beings passing away and reappearing, inferior and superior, fair and ugly, happy or unhappy in their destiny. He understands beings as faring according to their deeds: these worthy beings, who were ill-conducted in body, speech, and mind, revilers of noble ones, wrong in their views, acquirers of kamma due to wrong view, have, on the breakup of the body, after death, reappeared in a state of loss, in an unhappy destiny, in perdition, in hell; but these worthy beings, who were well-conducted in body, speech, and mind, not revilers of noble ones, right in their views, acquirers of kamma due to right view, have on the breakup of the body, after death, reappeared in a happy destiny, in the heavenly world; thus with the pine eye, which is purified and surpasses the …

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