圣众无量第十四
Fourteenth [Chapter On] Noble Assembly [Being] Immeasurable
又声闻菩萨，其数难量，不可称说。神智洞达，威力自在，能于掌中，持一切世界。」
Moreover, [of these] Voice-Hearers [and] Bodhisattvas, their numbers [are] difficult [to] measure, [and] cannot [be] stated. [With] supernormal [powers and] wisdom [with] thorough understanding, mighty powers [with] ease, [they are] able to, within [their] palms, hold all worlds.’
佛语阿难：「彼佛初会声闻众数不可称计，菩萨亦然。如大目犍连，百千万亿无量无数，于阿僧祇那由他劫，乃至灭度，悉共计校，不能究了多少之数。
[The] Buddha said [to] Ānanda, ‘That Buddha’s first assembly’s Voice-Hearers’ number cannot [be] counted, [with] Bodhisattvas likewise thus. If Great Maudgalyāyana, [with a] thousand million koṭis [of] immeasurable [and] innumerable [ones], in asaṃkhyeya nayutas [of] kalpas, and even [until] Parinirvāṇa, all together calculate [and] compare, [they will] not [be] able [to] completely understand how many their numbers [are].
譬如大海，深广无量。假使有人析其一毛，以为百分，以一分毛，沾取一渧，于意云何？其所渧者，于彼大海，何所为多？」
For example, [the] great ocean’s depth [and] vastness [is] immeasurable. If [there] is [a] person [who] divides his one hair, with [it] as [a] hundred parts, with one part’s hair, wet [to] obtain one drop, what [do you] think of [this]? Of that drop, with that great ocean, which is that greater?’
阿难白佛：「彼所渧水，比于大海多少之量，非巧历算数言辞譬类所能知也。」
Ānanda said [to the] Buddha, ‘That drop [of] water, compared with [the] great ocean’s measure of number [of drops, is] not [by] skilful [and] careful counting [of] numbers, words [and] analogies that able [to be] known too.’
佛语阿难：「如目连等，于百千万亿那由他劫，计彼初会声闻菩萨，所知数者，犹如一渧，其所不知，如大海水。
[The] Buddha said [to] Ānanda, ‘If Maudgalyāyana [and] others, in [a] thousand million koṭis [of] nayutas [of] kalpas, count that first assembly’s Voice-Hearers [and] Bodhisattvas, [of] those known numbers, [they are] similar to [the] one drop, [and of] those not known, [they are] like [the] great ocean’s water.
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