Selected Lectures on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (142)

Original text: 时彼国王。名曰作爱。闻是说已。速严驾驭。诣彼园中。见如上事。怪未曾有。即敕排备。种种香花。末香涂香。诣彼王所。偏袒右肩。右膝着地。长跪合掌。安慰问讯。白彼王言。圣天至此。为当是谁。彼即答曰。汝昔曾闻。有转轮王。名无边称不。作爱王言。我闻耆旧说。昔有王名无边称。威德自在。领四天下。与四兵众。乘空而上。三十三天。汝所闻者。岂异人乎。则我身是。

Explanation: At that time, the king of Zhuangyan City was named King Udayana. After hearing about this matter, he immediately prepared a carriage and rushed to the garden. Seeing what had happened, he found it very strange, as it had never occurred before. The king then ordered people to prepare various fragrant flowers, powdered incense, and paste incense, and went to the side of King Anantarāja, baring his right shoulder and placing his right knee on the ground, kneeling for a long while with palms joined, offering salutation and consolation to King Anantarāja, and said to him: "O Holy One, you have come here—who are you?" King Anantarāja said: "Have you ever heard that in the past there was a wheel-turning king named Anantarāja?" King Udayana said: "I have heard the elders say that in the past there was a king named Anantarāja, majestic and virtuous, sovereign and free, ruling over the four continents, who with four kinds of armies flew through the sky up to the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven." King Anantarāja said: "The one you heard of is no one else—it is precisely me."