[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) › 3 # འཕགས་པ་གྲང་ཁྱར་གྱས་འཚ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3 The City Beggar Woman 3 - **Language:** English ### [3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.3) How so? Because no śrāvaka or pratyekabuddha can ever overcome a mind set on omniscience.” A while later, as the sun was rising, the woman returned from the city. When she saw that the lamp was still burning brightly, she was filled with tremendous joy. At that moment, the Blessed One smiled.¹⁶ It is the nature of things that whenever a blessed buddha smiles, rays of light of many colors—blue, yellow, red, white, crimson, and the colors of crystal and silver—stream forth from the blessed buddha’s mouth. These illuminate and pervade worlds without end, reaching as far as the Brahmā realms where they outshine even the sun and the moon. They then return once again, and, after circling the blessed one thrice, descend into the uṣṇīṣa at the crown of that blessed one’s head. So, indeed, did such rays of light, having circled the Blessed One thrice, disappear into the uṣṇīṣa of the Blessed One’s head. Venerable Ānanda then spoke the following verse to the Blessed One: “Excellent victor, guide, and best of men, You do not smile without reason, So please, with compassion, for the benefit of the world, Tell us what gives you cause to smile.” The Blessed One replied, “Ānanda, this city beggar woman will not fall into a lower rebirth for twenty-eight eons. She will experience only the abundance of the human and god realms, and then will become a thus-gone, worthy, perfect, and complete buddha called All-Illuminating.” Then the Blessed One spoke these verses: “To venerate the holder of ten powers, Prasenajit lit a thousand fine lamps - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.4) ## 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.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.3) · Pramāṇa