[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Sūtras of the Connected Discourses transmitted singly](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta) › [Dhvajāgramahāsūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra) › [མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo) › [The Mahasutra “The Crest Insignia” (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000) › 4 # མད་ཆན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆག་ཅས་བྱ་བ 4 The Mahāsūtra “The Crest Insignia” (1) 4 - **Language:** English ### [4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.4) These are the four pairs, the eight types of persons. The Blessed One’s Saṅgha of śrāvakas is replete¹⁶ with discipline, replete with samādhi, replete with wisdom, replete with liberation, and replete with the knowledge and vision of liberation. They are fully worthy of offerings, they are completely worthy of offerings, they are worthy of respect with joined palms, they are worthy of homage. They are the unsurpassed field of merit, the rightful recipients of the offerings of the world. “Merchants, if at that time you recollect the Saṅgha through these aspects, then whatever fear, trepidation, or terror you are experiencing will subside. “Previously, merchants, when a battle between the devas and the asuras was about to break out, Śakra, the lord of the devas, called out to the devas of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three: ‘Friends, when you go into the battle between the devas and the asuras, if you feel any fear, trepidation, or terror, you should at that time recall my crest insignia Vaijayanta. If at that time you recollect my crest insignia Vaijayanta, then whatever fear, trepidation, or terror you are experiencing will subside. “ ‘If you cannot recollect my crest insignia, then recollect the crest insignia of the deva Īśāna. If at that time you recollect the crest insignia of the deva Īśāna, then whatever fear, trepidation, or terror you are experiencing will subside. “ ‘If you cannot recollect the crest insignia of the deva Īśāna, then recollect the crest insignia of the deva Varuṇa. - [Previous: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.3) - [Next: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.5) ## Linked texts (1) - [མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo.4) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyukta.dhvajagramahasutra*bo~en-84000.4) · Pramāṇa