It is noticeable that the translator Paramârtha shows a special interest in the life and works of Asanga and Vasubandhu.
According to Paramârtha the original work consisted of 600 aphorisms in verse which were sent by the author to the monks of Kashmir.
Paramârtha was a native of Ujjain who arrived at Nanking in 548 and made many translations, but it is quite possible that this life of Vasubandhu is not a translation but original notes of his own.
Paramârtha perhaps made a confusion in saying that the Jñâna-prasthâna itself was composed at the council.
In all sweetness he explained to his father that the Prince Siddhārtha had passed out of existence, as such, and was now changed into the condition of a Buddha, to whom all beings were equally akin and equally dear.
You spoke of a "deva" having appeared to the Prince Siddhārtha under a variety of forms; what do Buddhists believe respecting races of elemental invisible beings having relations with mankind?
He is an historical personage and his name was Siddhārtha Gautama.
Yet the record or reflection of all the past earth-lives must survive; for, when Prince Siddhārtha became Buddha, the full sequence of his previous births was seen by him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rtha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
