འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་ཡན་ལག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 3

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“mātaṅge mātaṅge mātaṅgini śūmā śūmū!”

Dhṛtarāṣṭra also spoke, saying “care carere svāhā!”

Virūpākṣa also spoke, saying “balampipa!”

The Blessed One responded, “Great Kings, when a son or daughter of noble family recites at least once a day, every day, these vidyāmantras seen¹² by all the buddhas, that son or daughter of noble family should be regarded as a teacher. That son or daughter of noble family will never again be reborn in the three lower realms and will be of benefit to the lives of all beings. Anyone who recites these words once a day for the benefit of all beings, or even reads them, will have no fear of untimely death. Their bodies will be free of disease. At no time will they drown, or be killed by fire, by weapons, by poison, or by lightning. It should be known that wherever a child of the victors recites these vidyāmantras, he or she will secure the attention of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas. Anyone who writes this down, or has it written down, will be serving the blessed buddhas with every respect and honor. If one wonders why this is, it is because the tathāgatas have declared that serving sentient beings is serving the buddhas. If someone, having written this, affixes it to a limb,¹³ all their limbs will be protected.”¹⁴

When the Blessed One had spoken thus, the four great kings, the entire retinue, and the world with all its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced and praised the words of the Blessed One.

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