Part 11: Ara’s congregation

Fifty thousand noble monks, sixty thousand nuns, with strict vows, six hundred and ten who knew the fourteen pūrvas, twenty-six hundred who had clairvoyant knowledge, twenty-five hundred and fifty-one who had mind-reading knowledge, twenty-eight hundred who were omniscient, seventy-three hundred who had the art of transformation, sixteen hundred disputants, two hundred thousand, less sixteen thousand, laymen, and three hundred and seventy-two thousand laywomen constituted the retinue of the Ford wandering over the earth for twenty-one thousand years, less three years, from the time of his omniscience.