List of Hyperboles
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direct links to the appropriate section of the text. The number in parentheses represents the
number of times that phrase occurred in the text.
Prose
- and so in this way
twenty thousand buddhas all had the same name candrasūryapradīpa. they also
had the same family name bharadvāja. (1) ↴
- and the whole buddha
world quaked in six ways (1) ↴
- at that time there
were twenty koṭis of bodhisattvas in the assembly who wanted to hear the
dharma (1) ↴
- beginning from the
first up to the last, all had the same name candrasūryapradīpa (1) ↴
- completely
illuminated all the eighteen thousand worlds in the east (1) ↴
- countless worlds (1)
↴
- eighty thousand
bodhisattva mahā sattvas (1) ↴
- exposition for sixty
intermediate kalpas (1) ↴
- he was able to meet
innumerable hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis (1) ↴
- hundreds of
thousands of buddhas (1) ↴
- innumerable hundreds
of thousands of myriads of koṭis (1) ↴
- innumerable hundreds
of thousands of sentient beings (1) ↴
- it illuminated all
the eighteen thousand worlds in the east (1) ↴
- more than
innumerable, unthinkable, incalculable kalpas ago (1) ↴
- māndārava and great
māndārava flowers, mañjūṣaka and great mañjūṣaka flowers then fell like rain
from the sky (1) ↴
- remained sitting for
sixty intermediate kalpas (1) ↴
- several hundreds of
thousands of attendants (5) ↴
- several hundreds of
thousands of his attendants (1) ↴
- six thousand
attendants (1) ↴
- sixty intermediate
kalpas (1) ↴
- ten thousand
devaputras (1) ↴
- the full period of
eighty intermediate kalpas (1) ↴
- then the buddha
emitted a ray of light from the tuft of white hair between his eyebrows (1)
↴
- they all planted
roots of good merit under many thousands of myriads of buddhas (1) ↴
- thirty thousand
devaputras (1) ↴
- twelve thousand
devaputras (1) ↴
- twelve thousand
monks (1) ↴
- twenty thousand
devaputras (1) ↴
- two thousand others
(1) ↴
- Varaprabha was there
with his eight hundred disciples (1) ↴
- Then māndārava and
great māndārava flowers, mañjūṣaka and great mañjūṣaka flowers fell like
rain from the sky (1) ↴
Verse
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- and are
constantly wandering in forests (1) ↴
- and feet, as well
as their wives and children. (1) ↴
- and innumerable
stupas were built (1) ↴
- and met
innumerable buddhas (1) ↴
- and priceless
robes (1) ↴
- are one thousand
banners, flags, and canopies (1) ↴
- as numerous as
the sands of the ganges river (1) ↴
- as numerous as
the sands of the ganges river, (2) ↴
- consoled the
innumerable beings (1) ↴
- constantly give
offerings of (1) ↴
- equal in number
to the sands of the ganges river, (1) ↴
- five thousand
yojanas in height and (1) ↴
- for thousands of
myriads of koṭis of years (1) ↴
- from the depths
of the avīci hell (1) ↴
- full period of
sixty intermediate kalpas (1) ↴
- give gifts such
as their bodies, flesh, hands, (1) ↴
- had brought
innumerable sentient beings to the path (1) ↴
- he has
illuminated innumerable lands. (1) ↴
- he was able to
meet innumerable buddhas (1) ↴
- in koṭis of
kalpas! (1) ↴
- innumerable (1)
↴
- innumerable
incalculable kalpas ago, (1) ↴
- innumerable
myriads (1) ↴
- innumerable
sentient beings to the path (1) ↴
- innumerable
sentient beings to the path. (1) ↴
- like the sounds
of brahma (1) ↴
- raining down
māndārava and mañjūṣaka flowers (1) ↴
- teaching the
dharma by innumerable illustrations (1) ↴
- the eighteen
thousand buddha worlds in the east (1) ↴
- there were
innumerable śrāvakas (1) ↴
- they give
thousands of myriads of koṭis (1) ↴
- thousands of
koṭis of things in this way. (1) ↴
- thousands of
myriads of verses (1) ↴
- to extinguish
their sufferings (1) ↴
- two thousand
yojanas in both length and width (1) ↴
- up to the summit
of existence (1) ↴
- which shimmer
like gold, (1) ↴
- who are joyfully
giving their heads, eyes, and bodies, (1) ↴
- who are teaching
innumerable sentient beings (1) ↴
- who have never
fallen asleep (1) ↴
- worth thousands
of myriads (1) ↴