thousand spokes. And all who saw that radiance became strictly upright, and obtained the Supreme Enlightenment.”
The Kwan-Butsu-sanmai-kyo says:—“Whosoever looks upon the footprints of the Buddha shall be freed from the results even of innumerable thousands of imperfections.”
The Butsu-setsu-mu-ryo-ku-kyo says:—“In the land that the Buddha treads in journeying, there is not even one person in all the multitude of the villages who is not benefited. Then throughout the world there is peace and good will. The sun and the moon shine clear and bright. Wind and rain come only at a suitable time. Calamity and pestilence cease. The country prospers; the people are free from care. Weapons become useless. All men reverence religion, and regulate their conduct in all matters with earnestness and modesty.”[Commemorative Text.]
—The Fifth Month of the Eighteenth Year of Meiji, ail the priests of this temple made and set up this pedestal-stone, bearing the likeness of the footprints of the Buddha, and placed the same within the main court of Dentsu-In, in order that the seed of holy enlightenment might be sown for future time, and for the sake of the advancement of Buddhism.
Taijo, priest,—being the sixty-sixth chief-priest by succession of this temple,—has respectfully composed.
Junyu, the miner priest, has reverentially inscribed.
