འཕགས་པ་ཡ་ཤས་ཏ་ལ་ལ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་འགྲ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་སྦྱང་བ 3

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together with the bodhisattvas, uttered this dhāraṇī-mantra: syādyathedan / cakṣuradada / cakṣuśśubhadhūlamethākalattha / itthan / sūraṭṭasūraṭṭa / sutthāya / itthan / velāvelā / pāṇicarumūrtini / āraṇi / āraṇi / kālapāṇi / kālapāṇi / duruduru / situruduhasi / dhasutidhasuti / dhiridhiri / dhuradhura / dhurudhuru / kālakāla / satthāsa / gīlagīla / gīlapaya / gīlapaya / dhusudhasu / sundhusundhu / satthāsu / atthāsu / ethāsu / ethāsāvāni / yucuridhe / sudhare / karakara / kirikiri / kurukuru / kurmakurma / kurmapāṇikurmapāṇi / kelukelu / kelapāṇikelapāṇi / karkārikarkāri / larubuddhe / dhurudhedhurudhe / mahādhurudhe / karakara / kirakira / pihusi / pihusi / dhasudhasu / hasuhasu / hasupanisvālā. Then the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra said this to the two devaputras, the Moon and the Sun: "O sons of noble family, this dhāraṇī-mantra was spoken by eighty-four million buddhas to benefit sentient beings who fall into unfortunate destinies. Sons of noble family, an udumbara flower is far easier to find, but the appearance of the words of this dhāraṇī-mantra in the world is not so. Sons of noble family, the words of this dhāraṇī-mantra are far easier to find, but bearing them or reciting them is not so. Sons of noble family, the appearance of a buddha is far easier to find, but the appearance of the words of this dhāraṇī-mantra in the world is not so. Sons of noble family, if for the sake of those sentient beings who dwell in Avīci and remain there for an eon, who have committed the five deeds of immediate retribution, and who abandon the sublime Dharma, one recites the words of this dhāraṇī-mantra three times by day and three times by night for twenty-one days, then by the power of the words of this dhāraṇī-mantra, the great hell of Avīci will split into a hundred pieces and those sentient beings will also be completely liberated—to say nothing of the humans of Jambudvīpa! Those in whose ears it resounds should know with certainty: 'We are held in care by the four tathāgatas, the four bodhisattvas, and the Moon and Sun.'"