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298-302), which he calls Tawutisa, and speaks of his mother (Matru) in it, who had now become a deva by the changing of her sex. (4) Compare the account of the Arhat's conveyance of the artist to the Tushita heaven in chap.v.The first expression here is more comprehensive. (5) Anuruddha was a first cousin of Sakyamuni, being the son of his uncle Amritodana.
He is often mentioned in the account we have of Buddha's last moments.
His special gift was the divyachakshus or "heavenly eye," the first of the six abhijnas or "supernatural talents," the faculty of comprehending in one instantaneous view, or by intuition, all beings in all worlds.
"He could see," says Hardy, M.B., p.
232, "all things in 100,000 sakvalas as plainly as a mustard seed held in the hand." (6) Eitel gives the name Utpala with the same Chinese phonetisation as in the text, but not as the name of any bhikshuni.
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