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Mahāsammata
Person本劫之初在位的一位國王,據巴利編年史記載,是佛陀所出的釋迦族血脈的始祖,因被民眾推舉出面制止惡行而得名「大眾所共許者」。
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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