འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 11.8

11.8

He did so with the wish to crush all the nāgas. Nevertheless, through the power of the Blessed One, it turned into a rain of flowers instead, which only brought great delight to all the nāgas.

Filled with Joy then said, “O daughters of Māra, look! Even those nāgas who have gone for refuge in the spiritual practitioner Gautama in Jambudvīpa are harmed by many miseries, so there is no need to mention you, girls, who stay here and go for refuge in him!”

The daughters of Māra replied:

“Even ten million māras are unable to kill
Those who take refuge in the Buddha.
Even if their discipline is corrupt and their minds are disturbed,
They will definitely transcend birth.

“Even a multitude of māras are unable to kill
Those who toss a single flower to the Teacher
While making the firm aspiration to reach awakening.
Without doubt, they will become buddhas within the world.

“Those who take up a single fundamental precept,
Contemplate the meaning of even just one of his words,
And give rise to the mind set on awakening
Will definitely become leaders of sentient beings.

“Father, when the Buddha saw this group of nāgas,
He caused various rains of flowers to fall on their place.
With his single Buddha domain, he has dedicated this to you.
There is nothing that could have been done there!⁶⁵

“In that place, the Teacher revealed
A teaching that, when heard a single time,
Will exhaust the negative deeds of those beings
And purify our karmic obscurations.”⁶⁶

Strongly distressed and criticized, the evil Māra felt miserable and hurt, and so he retired alone to his house to mourn.

At that moment, the bodhisattva great being Jyotīrasa arrived where the Blessed One was residing, just as his discourse on the sublime states devoid of reference point was coming to an end.