འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 11.2

11.2

And you are worthy to be worshiped by the humans.

“Most glorious of all beings,
Please quickly liberate the nāgas
And all those groups of gods, nāgas, and yakṣas
Who attend upon you!”

With a wish to induce strong faith in the Three Jewels, the sage Jyotīrasa then uttered these appropriate and sweet-sounding words to all those groups of nāgas:

“I do not possess such qualities!
I am not the sage Uṣṭra.
I do not have the power
To liberate you from this place.

“You should look for the other sage,
Who for many eons
Has undergone austerities and hardships.
He will be able to liberate you.

“That sage has always been diligent and practiced generosity.
He is wise and has benefited sentient beings
Through offerings of elephants, horses,
Chariots, sons, wives, and wealth.

“In the past, he has often given away
His limbs, head, ears, eyes, skin, blood,
Sons, male and female servants,
Food, beverages, bedding, and meals.

“He will liberate you through his love and compassion.
He is unmatched in the three realms,
And he revels in concentration.
That sage is named Uṣṭra.

“He is loving and has given rise to the mind set on awakening.
He has mastered the Vedas⁶² in the past,
And he has liberated many sentient beings
Tormented by suffering.

“For the sake of even a single being,
He has patiently endured the destinies
Of hell beings and pretas during eons in past lives.
He is a buddha who has appeared in the world.

“The one who has liberated all those tormented beings
From their sufferings is Uṣṭra.
Due to his firm diligence and compassion,
When Uṣṭra was born within saṃsāra

“To benefit sentient beings,
He was born as a prince, the son of Śuddhodana,
In the family of Ikṣvāku.
As soon as he was born,

“Happiness was felt in the three realms,
The world became splendorous,
And beings were filled with happiness.