[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Other dhāraṇīs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other) › [Puṣpakūṭadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani) › [འཕགས་པ་མེ་ཏོག་བརྩེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo) › [The Dharani “Heap of Flowers”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000) › 2 # འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་བརྩགས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 2 The Dhāraṇī “Heap of Flowers” 2 - **Language:** English ### [2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.2) together with a great monastic retinue of five hundred monks and a great retinue of bodhisattvas, numbering an even thousand, gathered from various world-systems. Without exception, they all possessed dhāraṇī, possessed contemplation, had one rebirth remaining, were well established on the ten levels, were consecrated with the consecration of immediately being heirs apparent, ⁸ had donned the great cuirass, and entertained no doubts regarding the qualities of a buddha. At that time, the bodhisattva mahāsattva⁹ Siṃhavikrīḍita came and took a seat in that very retinue. The bodhisattva mahāsattva Siṃhavikrīḍita then rose from his seat, placed his upper garment on one shoulder, placed his right kneecap on the ground, cupped his palms in reverence toward the Blessed One, and said to the Blessed One, “Blessed One! How much merit does a son or daughter of noble family who performs worship to a thus-gone one accrue?” The Blessed One replied to the bodhisattva mahāsattva Siṃhavikrīḍita, “Siṃhavikrīḍita, do not say ‘Blessed One, how much merit does a son or daughter of noble family who performs worship to a thus-gone one accrue?’ Why is that? A thus-gone one ¹⁰ is of immeasurable morality, immeasurable contemplation, immeasurable wisdom, immeasurable liberation, and immeasurable knowledge and vision of liberation. Thus, Siṃhavikrīḍita, since a thus-gone, worthy, fully awakened, perfect buddha is endowed with immeasurable heaps of virtue, it follows that the fruition of performing worship to him is also immeasurable. - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.1) - [Next: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-mt.2) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་མེ་ཏོག་བརྩེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.2) · Pramāṇa