འཕགས་པ་རྨད་ད་བྱང་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས 5

5

“Ānanda, leave aside the continent of Jambudvīpa, the eastern continent of Pūrvavideha, the western continent of Avaragodānīya, and the northern continent of Uttarakuru. There is, Ānanda, the palace of Śakra, the lord of the gods, named Vaijayanta. If it were made of the seven precious substances and a faithful son or daughter of good family were to offer it to all stream enterers, once-returners, non-returners, arhats, pratyekabuddhas,¹⁸ and the saṅgha in the four directions, or if someone were to create for a thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddha, who has passed into parinirvāṇa, a stūpa the size of a gooseberry fruit made from clay, provide it with a central pillar the size of a needle and a parasol the size of a jujube leaf, commission a statue the size of a grain of barley, and place in there a relic the size of a mustard seed, I say, Ānanda, the merit of this one would be far greater than the former.

“Ānanda, leave aside the continent of Jambudvīpa, the eastern continent of Pūrvavideha, the western continent of Avaragodānīya, the northern continent of Uttarakuru, and the palace of Śakra, the lord of the gods, named Vaijayanta. There is, Ānanda, the three-thousandfold universe. If it were made of the seven precious substances and a faithful son or daughter of good family were to offer it to all the stream enterers, once-returners, non-returners, arhats, pratyekabuddhas, and the saṅgha in the four directions, or if someone were to create for a thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddha, who has passed into parinirvāṇa, a stūpa the size of a gooseberry fruit made of clay, provide it with a central pillar the size of a needle and a parasol the size of a jujube leaf,