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Vijayuttara Saṅkha

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La conque de Sakka, longue, dit-on, de cent vingt coudées, qu’il fit résonner au moment de l’Éveil du Bouddha et lors d’autres occasions mémorables.

Sakka’s conch trumpet, which he blew at the moment of the Buddha’s Enlightenment. It was one hundred and twenty hands in length (J.i.72; BuA. 239).

He also blew it on the occasion of the enshrinement of relics in the Mahā Thūpa (Mhv.xxx.74) and on the day of the coronation of Candakumāra. J.vi.157.

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