ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 20.19

20.19

and tell your father that the king may confiscate all your possessions!’

“As soon as he heard this, the brahmin magistrate’s son fled to the monastery.¹⁴⁷ There he saw a great crowd in earnest veneration of the stūpa. After the magistrate’s son saw this, he found faith in the stūpa, made a large offering to it, and prayed, ‘By this root of virtue, wherever I am born, may it be into a family of great means, prosperity, and wealth. May I be well proportioned, pleasing to the eye, and beautiful. May I master all the scriptures. May I defeat the advocates of all the different philosophical schools. May I please and not displease Uttara, the young brahmin prophesied by the totally and completely awakened Buddha Kāśyapa to be the next blessed buddha. Going forth in his doctrine alone may I cast away all afflictive emotions, and manifest arhatship.’

“As it happened, the young man was trampled by the crowd, and died, but dying as he did—filled with joy at the thought of the stūpa—he transmigrated and took rebirth as a god.

“Now when young gods and goddesses are born they possess three different types of innate knowledge. They know (1) whence they have died and transmigrated, (2) where they have been born, and (3) why they have taken birth there.

He saw that when he died as a human being, filled with joy at the thought of the stūpa of the totally and completely awakened Buddha Kāśyapa, he transmigrated and took rebirth as a god. As soon as he recognized this, he immediately recalled the buddha’s previous kindness. He began to decorate himself with earrings, garlands, and strings of precious stones, put on a crown decorated with various types of precious jewels, perfumed his body with saffron, tamala, spṛka, and other herbs, and that very night