འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 4.18

4.18

I would then place it on the shore of the ocean of the nāgas, and strong rains and great masses of water would pour down. If the downpour of those strong rains damaged the houses, fields, and monastic compounds, I would then infuse a precious gem of the king of snakes with this mantra formula of the peaceful core of knowledge and place it in the abode of those nāgas, and the rains would then come to a halt.

“In places affected by untimely wind, sun, untimely clouds, darkness, sandstorms, cold, heat, or untimely seasons, by armies, or by disturbances of the moon, the sun, the planets, the lunar mansions, the full moon, the half-moon, the seasons, or the years, I would, for the sake of sentient beings and out of compassion for them, perform ablutions day and night for seven days, feed on milk and cooked rice, and with great delight in the cultivation of the sublime states recite this teaching of the peaceful core of knowledge without doing anything else. Had I failed to look after those lands for these seven days, I would not have kept the promise I made to myself. In those places, I would infuse with this great teaching of the peaceful core of knowledge an extract of campa herbs³⁵ combined with uragasāra sandalwood, mix it with an emetic made from the fruits of madana trees, and place it by a temple. That would pacify all instances of untimely wind, sun, untimely clouds, darkness, sandstorms, cold, and heat, and it would cause the seasons, the moon, the sun, the planets, the lunar mansions, the full moon, the half-moon, and the years to occur properly.

“Noble son, in this way I revealed the Dharma of this great teaching of the peaceful core of knowledge in places where people adhered to signs of auspiciousness and fortune and had wrong views.