འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་ཀྱ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས 4

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and quaked. The entire abode of Māra was terrified, and all of the deities of Māra’s horde and the wicked Māras were extremely distressed and miserable.

The beings who witnessed the great earth quaking prostrated to the thus-gone, arhat, perfect and complete buddha and recited the phrase “I prostrate to the thus-gone, arhat, perfect and complete buddha” three times. The gods that had genuine faith¹⁹ in the Buddha showered the Blessed One with divine mandārava flowers and great mandārava flowers, and by showering him with flowers brought joy to all who sought refuge in the Buddha. And thus it was said that:

“When the lion of the Śākya clan,
The perfect, complete buddha and our refuge,
Spoke these two dhāraṇīs
Of the Buddha’s essence,

“The earth shook in six ways,
The ocean trembled, all of Māra’s realm
Shook violently, and the deities of Māra’s horde
Panicked and trembled.

“While the māras were overcome with sorrow and misery,
The gods witnessed this miracle
And rained mandārava flowers from the sky
As an offering to the world protector.

“Others who had true faith²⁰ in the Buddha
Made offerings of short and long necklaces,
Perfumes, scented powders, ointments,
Clothing, jewelry, and armlets.

“These eight offerings became the ornaments of the beneficial advantages of their good qualities. The eight are as follows: (1) the ornament of not forgetting bodhicitta; (2) the ornament of insatiable investigation of all one has studied; (3) the ornament of dependent origination, the definitive understanding of the profound Dharma; (4) the ornament of knowing