[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) › [The Five Protections](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa) › [Mahāpratisarā Mahāvidyārājñī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara) › [འཕགས་པ་རིག་པའི་རྒྱལ་མོ་སོ་སོར་འབྲང་བ་ཆེན་མོ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo) › [The Great Amulet](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000) › 15 # འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང 15 The Great Amulet 15 - **Language:** English ### [15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000.15) ⁵⁶ a wealthy and powerful merchant had a son who cast incantations. Through the power of his incantation he summoned the nāga king Takṣaka, but he was careless after summoning him and failed to control him. The nāga king angrily bit him, causing a painful sensation. He thought, ‘This is how my life ends.’ Although several magicians were called, none could cure him of the poison. “A very compassionate woman with lay vows named Vimalaviśuddhi lived in the city of Śūrpāraka. She knew to recite this great queen of incantations, so she went to where the man was staying and uttered this great incantation. By just reciting it to him once, the poison vanished and he regained consciousness. After he was delivered from that intense suffering, the merchant’s son took the mantra of the great incantation to heart, precisely according to the prescribed procedure. “But how do we really know, great brahmin? In the great city of Vārāṇasī, during the reign of a king known by the name Brahmadatta,⁵⁷ the monarch who ruled the land along the eastern border amassed a four-division army and surrounded Vārāṇasī in preparation for attack. The ministers said to King Brahmadatta, ‘Your Majesty, if the enemy army should take the city, what tactic could we employ to defeat them? Please tell us!’ The king then declared, ‘Do not worry! I have a queen of incantations called the great amulet. With it I will defeat and pulverize this four-division army!’ The ministers all bowed their heads and said, ‘O great king! What is this thing about which we have never before heard?’ The king replied, - [Previous: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000.14) - [Next: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000.16) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་རིག་པའི་རྒྱལ་མོ་སོ་སོར་འབྲང་བ་ཆེན་མོ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo.15) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahapratisara*bo~en-84000.15) · Pramāṇa