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  • 本劫之初在位的一位国王,据巴利编年史记载,是佛陀所出的释迦族血脉的始祖,因被民众推举出面制止恶行而得名“大众所共许者”。

  • A king who reigned at the dawn of this age and, according to the Pāḷi Chronicles, was the original ancestor of the Sakyan lineage into which the Buddha was born, chosen by the people to restrain wrongdoing and thus named “the Great Elect.”

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