144 THE VAGRAKKHEDIKÂ.
and if a son or a daughter of a good family, after taking from this treatise of the Law, this Pragñâ- pâramitâ, one Gâthâ of four lines only, should learn it, repeat it, understand it, and fully explain it to others, then the latter would on the strength of this produce a larger stock of merit, immeasurable and innumerable. And how should he explain it? As in the sky:
Stars, darkness, a lamp, a phantom, dew, a bubble. A dream, a flash of lightning, and a cloud — thus we should look upon the world (all that was made).
Thus he should explain; therefore it is said: He should explain.'
Thus spoke the Bhagavat enraptured. The elder Subhûti, and the friars, nuns, the faithful lay- men and women, and the Bodhisattvas also, and the whole world of gods, men, evil spirits and fairies, praised the preaching of the Bhagavat. (32)
Thus is finished the Diamond-cutter, the blessed Pragñâpâramitâ.
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