Why does Medicine-King Bodhisattva walk about this Saha-World?
World Honored One! This Medicine-King Bodhisattva will have to practice hundreds of thousand of billions of nayutas of austerities in this world.” (P.299, L.3.): Although Senchu Murano translated from Kumarajiva’s Chinese version, “This Medicine-King Bodhisattva will have to practice hundreds of thousand of billions of nayutas of austerities in this world,” I believe it should be past tense. The same sentence from the Kumarajiva’s version is translated differently by Kubo Tsugunari and Yuyama Akira as follows: “This Bodhisattva Bhaisajayaraja has performed hundred of thousands of myriads of kotis of nayutas of difficult and arduous practices.” Leon Hurvitz also translates the same sentence as, “This bodhisattva Medicine King has to his credit several hundreds of thousands of myriads of millions of nayutas of difficult deeds, of painful deeds.” The congregation of the Lotus Sutra knew that the bodhisattva had engaged in painful practices for so many kalpas, but they did not know what ki
