སྟང་ཆན་མ་རབ་ཏ་འཇམས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 42

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lasani rocane alabhe agane alabhe talabhe prakarṣaṇe svāhā |

“May there be well-being in the womb!
May the sense faculties develop perfectly!
May there be well-being while inside the womb!
May newborns not perish!
May there be well-being in the womb!
May there be timely birth!

“It is said that multi-colored cords
And unbroken white mustard grains
Will protect them—
Long live the children!”

Then, the omniscient teacher expressed these incantations:

“May those in the womb be protected!
May children have well-being!

syād yathedaṃ bodhi bodhi mahābodhi bodhanumate phalini bahuphale śikṣa śikṣa sāravate sāgali durāsade dūrāgame śūraprāpte śūravate bhage bhagavate bhāgini nivāriṇi svāhā |”

Then, the fifteen grahas,
Perpetual drinkers of blood,
Paid homage to the Lord of the World,
And with palms joined said:

“Wherever this sūtra,
So eloquently spoken, happens to be—
Whether it be in villages, homes, or towns—
Children will not perish!

“Obeying you, Great Sage,
We will follow accordingly!
Homage to the Blessed Buddha!
Homage to Brahmā!

“May the mantra syllables be fulfilled!
May they be fulfilled!
May beings be delivered through the incantation!
May they be considered by Brahmā! Svāha!”

The great king Vaiśravaṇa now draped his upper robe on one shoulder and, paying homage to the Blessed One with palms joined, said to him, “Venerable Blessed One, certain śrāvakas ought to receive, hold, teach, recite, and master this sūtra, Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm, and thereby strive to learn it well and strive in the worship of reliquaries with it. On the eighth, fourteenth, and fifteenth lunar days, they should perform elaborate worship at a reliquary and recite the incantation there.