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Budo’s Three Produces: The Heavenly Grace
1Those who came to the city obtained the threefold spiritual root at the valley of Mt. Daeyeo (Palanquin Mountain) in Yeongju (Sea Province), which was the ginseng.
2Calling it the Sea Ginseng of Yeongju, they could protect the three virtues and returned.
3Generally, a ginseng of the numeric qualification, 4when sprouted and grown in the northly magnetic direction, necessarily lived long.
5They hibernated after one gi of 40 years. 6And they accumulated the essence after one sak of 13 gi [520 years]. 7After four sak [2080 years], they bore seeds and transformed.
8Such quality was not obtainable outside the region of Budo.
9Thus called the Bangsak-cho (Longevity Plant). 10It was what the world called an elixir.
11Even a small root produced in the region of Budo 12 had a spiritual effect. 13People who came to the city surely sought them.
14Those three — the ginseng of the threefold spiritual root, 15the pine nuts of the fivefold-leaf auspicious fruit, 16and the emblem seal of the seven-colored treasure jade — 17were the special products of the Three Regions of Ever Abundance.
18They were the Heavenly Grace for all tribes of the Four Seas.
Budoji <=== Chapter 15 <===> Chapter 17