ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 37.13

37.13

He prepared a great deal of food and drink and made gifts of it to the creatures that flew through the sky, dwelt in the water, or made their homes in the fields. ‘From this day forth, to all I shall give all,’ he promised. ‘I shall set the whole world on the path of the ten virtuous actions.’ After they died, their embrace of the path of the ten virtuous actions was cause for the greater part of those beings to take birth among the gods, until they began to fill all the gods’ residences.

“Śakra, King of the Gods, thought, ‘What is this? Is someone practicing to attain the state of Indra, or perhaps to attain the state of Brahmā?’ Śakra, King of the Gods, looked out, and saw that there was one who was practicing to attain unexcelled, total, and complete enlightenment. He thought, ‘I will go for a time and see for myself whether he is of firm resolve. If this being’s resolve is firm, I shall worship him. If this being’s resolve is not firm, I shall steady him.’ With this in mind, Śakra, King of the Gods, emanated in the form of a rākṣasa, sat on the canopy above King Śibi’s house, and spoke half a verse:

“ ‘Sad that once formed, nothing can last,
But only arise and expire….’

“With that, Śakra, King of the Gods, in his nonhuman guise fell silent.

“Now King Śibi heard what Śakra, King of the Gods, in nonhuman guise had said, and when he heard it he thought, ‘This alone is the foundation of nirvāṇa and opens the gate of dependent origination. This alone shows the path to unexcelled, total, and complete enlightenment.’

“King Śibi saw Śakra, King of the Gods, in nonhuman guise