ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 23.13

23.13

Śiṣyaka’s fearsome disciple Aṅgada will rise to his feet and say, ‘You’re but a newcomer, and one of little learning! How can you speak such nonsense to our preceptor?’ And he will take up a sharp sword to slay the arhat Sūrata.”

The Blessed One continued:

“Śiṣyaka’s disciple
Aṅgada, so frightening,
Will slay the arhat Sūrata,
The Sugata’s very heir.

“Then a yakṣa called Dadhimukha will come there and think, ‘This wicked man has killed the one arhat that was here!’ He will light his vajra scepter on fire and it will burn all over, covered in flames. Wielding nothing but a single, searing flame, he will bludgeon the monk Aṅgada’s head, and split it into seven pieces.”

The Blessed One continued:

“Then the yakṣa Dadhimukha
Will wield a blazing scepter
And split wicked Aṅgada’s head
Into seven pieces.

“The disciples of the arhat Sūrata will rise from their seats, and they will murder the Tripiṭaka master Śiṣyaka, and after the murder of the arhat Sūrata and the Tripiṭaka master Śiṣyaka, the Tathāgata’s holy Dharma will disappear.

“When the holy Dharma disappears, the earth will quake, a meteor will strike, and the thundering of a celestial drum will resound from the heavens. Comets will fall from the four directions, and some hundred thousand gods will cry out in unbearable compassion, wailing and lamenting, ‘What misery! The holy Dharma the Tathāgata cultivated for over three countless eons is no more!’ ”

The Blessed One continued:

“In the very instant
The monk Sūrata is slain,
The entire surface of the earth
Will quake six different ways.

“When the holy Dharma
Of the Great Sage vanishes,
A great many beings, overcome by suffering,