[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) › [Narrative and karma sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative) › [Nagarāvalambikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika) › [འཕགས་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo) › [The City Beggar Woman](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000) › 2 # འཕགས་པ་གྲང་ཁྱར་གྱས་འཚ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2 The City Beggar Woman 2 - **Language:** English ### [2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.2) by gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, and mahoragas; by Śakra, Brahmā, and the world protectors; by kings and ministers; and by bodhisattvas, monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. Yet he remained like a lotus unsullied by water.¹² At that time, in order to venerate the Thus-Gone One, on the full moon day of the last month of autumn, King Prasenajit had a thousand large copper cauldrons filled with grain oil and set them out so that the entire area for four leagues around was illuminated by their flames. At the same time, in the great city of Śrāvastī, there was a city beggar woman called Maker of Joy.¹³ She had bought a tiny amount of oil, as a result of which she had gone without food for four days and had grown weak.¹⁴ She took the oil to Prince Jeta’s Grove and, using it to light a lamp at the edge of the courtyard, she made this wish: “Blessed One, with this root of virtue, may I too become a teacher in the future. May I teach the Dharma and gather a community, just as the thus-gone, worthy, perfect, and complete Buddha does now. If I am to become a buddha in the future, may this oil lamp continue to burn until I return.” Whereupon she lit the lamp, and returned to the city. The light of that oil lamp illuminated all of Jambudvīpa and the following day the lamp was still burning. Then Venerable Mahā­maudgalyāyana tried to put it out with the edge of his robe, but he could not. Venerable Mahā­maudgalyāyana then tried to extinguish it with gales of wind, but still he could not put it out. Venerable Mahā­maudgalyāyana then went to the Brahmā realms and caused sheets of rain the size of chariot axles¹⁵ to fall upon this whole trichiliocosm. However, even though he directed the deluge right over the lamp, still he could not douse it. Then the Blessed One said, “Let it be, Maudgalyāyana! This lamp has been lit with a mind set on awakening, and a mind set on awakening cannot be overcome by a śrāvaka. - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.1) - [Next: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.2) · Pramāṇa