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Buddhist
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (6)
There were also ten thousand Brahma-devas including Mahadeva Sikhin, coming from the four quarters to hear about the Dharma. There were as well twelve thousand kings of heavens who came from the four quarters to sit in the assembly. There were also other devas of awe-inspiring majesty, dragons, spirits, yaksas, gandharas, asuras, garudas, kin-naras and mahoragas who came to sit in the assembly. Many bhiksus, bhiksunis, upasakas and upasikas also came to the assembly.
Buddhist
Chapter 1 (3)
With the Lord Buddha, there were assembled together twelve hundred and fifty mendicant disciples, all of whom had attained to eminent degrees of...
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (7)
From him the many Devas too are begotten, the Sâdhyas (genii), men, cattle, birds, the up and down breathings, rice and corn (for sacrifices),...
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Hindu
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.22)
The Rudras, Ādityas, Vasus, and Sādhyas; the Viśwas, Aświns, Maruts, and Ushmapās; and the hosts of Gandharvas, Yakshas, Asuras, and Siddhas— all...
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Hindu
Brahmana 1 (3.1.1)
Janaka, [king] of Videha, sacrificed with a sacrifice at which many presents were distributed. Brahmans of the Kurupaiicalas were gathered together...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XL (3)
And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXXII (11)
Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for...
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXXII. The Betrayal: Judas’ Kiss—peter Militant—christ Hailed to Court—an Officer Strikes Jesus Though Bound—"all the Disciples Forsook Him" (18)
¶With Caiaphas the high priest were assembled the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
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Hindu
Brahmana 9 (3.9.1)
Then Vidagdha Sakalya questioned him. ' How many gods are there, Yajfiavalkya? ' He answered in accord with the following Nivid (invoca- tionary...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 11 (1)
Prâkînasâla Aupamanyava, Satyayagña Paulushi, Indradyumna Bhâllaveya, Gana Sârkarâkshya, and Budila Âsvatarasvi, these five great householders and...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.12)
These deities are formed into groups of five pairs, each group of five being surrounded by a fivefold circle of radiances, the male Bodhisattvas...
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Hindu
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.6)
Behold the Ādityas and the Vasus and the Rudras and the twin Aświns and the Maruts; behold, O Bhārata, many wonders that no one has ever seen before.
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Channeled Material
Session 22 (22.12)
Ra: A light being appeared bearing that which may be called a shield of light.…
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 3 (3)
Three groups of families existed; but they did not forget the name of their grandfather and father, those who propagated and multiplied there in the...
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Gnostic
Chapter 139 (Of the constitution of the way of the midst)
He established another five great rulers over them,--that is these who are on the way of the midst.
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Hindu
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.15)
Arjuna said: In Thy body, Ο Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings— the Lord Brahmā, seated on the lotus, and all the rishis...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XXIX (1)
On [the spiritual chieftainship of the regions of the earth] it says in revelation, that every one of those six chieftainships has one spiritual...
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Hindu
Rāja Vidyā Yoga (9.25)
The worshippers of the Devas go to the Devas; the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors; the worshippers of the Bhutas go to the Bhutas;...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXXIV (4)
And there came the king[s] of Taphu, and the king[s] l of f'Aresa.t and the kingfs] * of Seragan, and the king^s] l of Selo, and the king[s] of da'as,...
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Hindu
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.13)
There, in the person of the God of gods, Arjuna beheld the whole universe, with its manifold divisions, all gathered together in one.
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.2)
Thereupon all the Divine Fathers-Mothers of the Five Orders [of Dhyani Buddhas] with their attendants will come to shine upon one simultaneously. At...
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