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1　/// … these (1) (go) towards him … As disciples to a teacher, these now 2　/// (not having been (2) …) like … they go readily with the wish to see Metrak.

3　/// to the noble Metrak, who (has come) here from the Dakṣiṇāpatha (3) passing through many lands

4　/// the Mount Pāṣāṇaka, the jewel of the land of Magadha, where this one, (the teacher) of the three worlds, 5　/// the Buddhagod the teacher will keep waiting for the noble Met-rak's going away from the house. God (4) Brahmā says:

6　/// innumerable Kinnaras and Gandharvas around the Buddhagod the teacher in order to hear the Law.

7　/// Let us do (5) it in this way! And now, by seeing son and father, both kings of Buddha rank, with both (our) eyes …

8　/// the Bodhisattva Metrak (6) , with the fifteen brahmin youths beginning with Ajita, and 400,000 adherents of the Vinaya, YQ 1.7 1/1 [verso]