ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 23.14

23.14

Will perish then.

“Yakṣas who once beheld the Buddha
And who love the Victor’s teaching,
Will fall face-down upon the ground,
Crying in lamentation, suffering.

“From this time forth, in all the world
The holy Dharma will be no more.
Vinaya and prātimokṣa
Will not be practiced any more.

“The Dharma bridge, swept away.
The stream of Dharma, stopped.
What was an ocean, only sand.
The Dharma mountaintop, removed.¹⁶³ It will be gone.

“The Dharma sacrifice will draw to a close.
The Dharma sacrificial pillar, felled. It will be gone.
The Dharma’s base will break. It will be gone.
The vows shall be no more. They will be gone.

“The Dharma lamp will be snuffed out.
The Dharma wheel will halt. It will be gone.
The door to deathlessness will be shut. It will be gone.
The Dharma preachers will die off. They will be gone.

“The remonstrators of the righteous way,
Those superb persons will be destroyed. They will be gone.
Not long from now, human vision
Will be like that of beasts.

“Thereupon Mahā­māyādevī will descend from her home in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, and cry out in unbearable compassion, wailing and lamenting, ‘What misery! The holy Dharma my son cultivated for over three countless eons has now vanished because of a dispute and is no more!’ And she will also say:

“ ‘Alas! Virtuous Sūrata,
The Buddha’s youngest heir,
Was killed in a fit of hatred
By jealous Aṅgada.

“ ‘The Buddha’s mother, great Māyādevī,
So disciplined in manner,
Speaks out of pity and sadness,
For the holy Dharma is gone.

“ ‘Alas! The doctrine supreme among
Gods and humans is destroyed, it’s gone.
The Tripiṭaka master Śiṣyaka,
And the monk Sūrata both were killed.

“ ‘Thus today the moon fell from the sky,
And the sun has left and gone.
The sun of the teachings is no more—
Now the world is plunged in gloom.

“ ‘The pure disk of the moon
Lies in the clutches of Rāhu.
A murk, thick and terror-filled,