Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchāmahāyānasūtra
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Source: GRETIL (gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de) — Sanskrit academic edition. Title: Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchāmahāyānasūtra. Data entry: (see source file). License: refer to source file header.
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	 Sagaranagarajapariprccha nama Mahayanasutra
Input by members of the Sanskrit Buddhist Input Project.
With kind permission of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project
of Nagarjuna Institute, Nepal
and University of the West, Rosemead, California, USA
(www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon)
Sutra section, text no. 38

## Revisions:
   - 2020-07-31: TEI encoding by mass conversion of GRETIL's Sanskrit corpus

# Text

āryasāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā nāma mahāyānasūtram = sāgara saṃskṛte

punaruddhṛtam namaḥ sarvabuddhabodhisattvebhyaḥ /

evaṃ mayā śrutam - ekasmin samaye bhagavān buddhaḥ sāgaranāgarājāvasathe viharati sma sārddhaṃ sārdhadvādaśaśatabhikṣūṇāṃ mahāsaṅghena bahubhiśca bodhisattvamahāsattvaiḥ / tasmin samaye bhagavān buddhaḥ sāgaranāgarājamavocat - nāgādhipate, caturṇāṃ dharmoddānānāmabhidhāne kriyamāṇe tadabhidhānena caturaśītidharmaskandhasahasrāṇāmabhidhānaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavati / katamāni catvāri? tathāhi -

sarveṣāṃ saṃskārāṇām anityatāyāṃ bodhisattvairmahāsattvairnirdiṣṭamakṣayajñānaṃ pravartate /

sarveṣāṃ sāsravāṇāṃ dharmāṇāṃ duḥkhatāyāṃ bodhisattvairmahāsattvairnirdiṣṭamakṣayajñānaṃ pravartate /

sarveṣāṃ dharmāṇām anātmatāyāṃ bodhisattvairmahāsattvairnirdiṣṭamakṣayajñānaṃ pravartate /

nirvāṇasya śāntatāyāṃ bodhisattvairmahāsattvairnirdiṣṭamakṣayajñānaṃ pravartate /

nāgādhipate, eteṣāṃ caturṇāṃ dharmoddānānāmabhidhāne kriyamāṇe tadabhidhānena caturaśītidharmaskandhasahasrāṇāmabhidhānaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavati /

idamavocat bhagavān / āttamanaso bhikṣavaḥ sarve ca bodhisattvā bhagavato bhāṣitamabhyanandanniti /

// āryasāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchānāma mahāyānasūtraṃ samāptam //
-- Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchāmahāyānasūtra (Academic edition — see source file header)