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Bodhisattva of higher rank than Shubin, namely the -Dragon- 

 king Zennyo of the Anavatapta pond ' in Northern India, who 

 was not in Shubin's power. Immediately a pond was dug before 

 the Palace and filled with pure water, whereupon Kobo invited 

 the Dragon-king to come and live there. And behold, a gold- 

 coloured dragon,, eight sun long, appeared, seated on the head 

 of a snake, more than nine shaku in length, and entered the 

 pond. When Kobo had reported this lucky news, the Emperor 

 sent a messenger wich all kinds of offerings in order to worship 

 the Dragon-king. The result was marvellous, for soon it rained 

 for three days all over the Empire. Since that day the Shingon 

 sect flourished, more and more, and Kobo Daishi was highly 

 revered by high and low. In vain Shubin worshipped Gundari® 

 and the Yakshas, to destroy his enemy, for as soon as Kobo heard 

 this, he began to worship Dai Itoku Myo-o ^, and there was a 

 violent struggle in the air between these two parties. "In order 

 to make Shubin careless, Kobo caused the rumour of his' own 

 death to be spread, which created great sorrow among all classes 

 of the people, but great joy in his enemy's heart. As Kobo had 

 expected, Shubin broke down his altar and stopped worshipping 

 the demons, but at the same moment Kobo's power struck him 

 and he fell dead on the floor. His monastery soon decayed and 

 disappeared, and Toji's glory increased yearly. Kobo made a 

 dragon of so-called cJiigaya (Imperata arundinacea, a kind of 

 reed) and placed it upon an altar *. Then he promised to the 

 selected crowd which had assembled, that he would cause the 

 real dragon to stay in the park and protect the country by his 

 doctrine, while the Dragon-king of reed would become a big 

 dragon and go to the Anavatapta pond in India. According to 

 another tradition the reed dragon ascended to the sky and flew 

 away in an eastern direction, but stopped in Owari province, at 

 Atsuta's famous Shinto shrine, a lucky foreboding of the spreading 

 of Buddha's Law to the East, Kobo said: ""When this Dragon- 

 king (i, e, the real one) goes to another country, the pond wiU 

 dry up, the land will be waste and th& world will be in poverty.. 

 Then my priests (the Shingon priests) must pray to the Dragon- 

 king to stay, and thus save the country". 



So we know that the Buddhist priests, ordered by the different 



^ ^-^^i^- 2 ^ ^ T^lJ , King of the Yakshas. 



^ ~hi ^i ^^ 'iS i ' i'^^"*''fi^'l ■with Yamantaka, a manifestation of Manjufri as 



"Destroyer of Yama", 



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