[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Karandavyuhasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha) › 22.3 # Karandavyuhasutra 22.3 Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra 22.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22.3) atha avalokiteśvaro bhagavantametadavocat - adṛṣṭamaṇḍalasya na dātavyāṃ kathaṃ bhagavatpadmāṅkamudrāmanugṛhṇāti? kathaṃ maṇidharāṃ mudrāṃ saṃjānīte? kathaṃ sarvarājendrāṃ saṃjānīte? maṇḍalapariśuddhiṃ kathaṃ saṃjānīte? maṇḍalasyedaṃ nimittaṃ caturasraṃ pañcahastapramāṇaṃ sāmantakena madhye maṇḍalasyāmitābhaṃ likhet / indranīlacūrṇaṃ padmarāgacūrṇaṃ marakatacūrṇaṃ sphāṭikacūrṇaṃ suvarṇarūpyacūrṇānyamitābhasya tathāgatasya kāye saṃyojayitavyāni / dakṣiṇe pārśve mahāmaṇidharo bodhisattvaḥ kartavya / vāmapārśve ṣaḍakṣarī mahāvidyā kartavyā caturbhujā śaratkāṇḍagauravarṇā, nānālaṃkāravibhūṣitā / vāmahaste padmaṃ kartavyam / dakṣiṇahaste akṣamālā kartavyā / dau hastau saṃprayuktau sarvarājendrā nāma mudrā kartavyā / tasyāḥ ṣaḍakṣarimahāvidyāyāḥ pādamūle vidyādharaṃ pratisthāpayitavyam / dakṣiṇahaste dhūpakaṭacchukaṃ kartavyaṃ dhūmāyamānam / vāmahaste nānāvidhālaṃkāraparipūrṇaṃ piṭakaṃ kartavyam / tasya ca maṇḍalasya caturdvāreṣu catvāro mahārājāḥ kartavyāḥ, nānāpraharaṇagṛhītāḥ kartavyāḥ / tasya maṇḍalacatuṣkoṇeṣu catvāraḥ pūrṇakumbhāḥ nānāmaṇiratnasaṃcitāḥ / yaḥ kaścitkulaputro vā kuladuhitā vā icchati maṇḍalaṃ praveṣṭum, tena sarvagotrasyāparaṃparasya nāmāni likhitavyāni, likhitvā ca haste gṛhītavyāni ca / maṇḍale prathamataraṃ tāni nāmāni prakṣipet / te sarve caramabhavikā bodhisattvā bhavanti / sarvamānuṣyakeṇa duḥkhena viprahīṇā bhaviṣyanti, kṣipraṃ cānuttarāṃ samyaksaṃbodhimabhisaṃbudhyante / tata ācāryeṇa asthāne naiva dātavyā / athavā śraddhādhimuktakasya dātavyā / athavā mahāyānaśraddhādhimuktakasya dātavyā / na ca tīrthikasya dātavyā // - [Previous: 22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22.2) - [Next: 22.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22.4) - [Up: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཟ་མ་ཏོག་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha*bo.3.23) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karandavyuha.22.3) · Pramāṇa