འཕགས་པ་གསར་གྱ་བྱ་མ་ལྟ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

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runs with such strength, force, and speed, and if, Ānanda, a poisonous serpent were then to emerge from within that pool and circle that chariot eight times before the chariot returned from the lake; Ānanda, in the time it takes the poisonous serpent to circle the chariot once, you, Ānanda, teach eight forms of Dharma instruction and also make the meaning understood. In the time it takes you, Ānanda, to speak a single word, Mahāmaudgalyāyana teaches eight forms of Dharma instruction and also makes the meaning understood. Ānanda, in the time it takes Mahāmaudgalyāyana to speak a single word, the elder Śāradvatīputra teaches eight forms of Dharma instruction and also makes the meaning understood. In the time it takes the elder Śāradvatīputra to speak a single word, a pratyekabuddha teaches countless forms of Dharma instruction. In the time it takes a pratyekabuddha to speak a single word, a bodhisattva teaches countless, inconceivable, ineffable forms of Dharma instruction and also makes the meaning understood. Ānanda, in the time it takes a bodhisattva to speak a single word, Ānanda, the elder Mahāmaudgalyāyana crosses eighty thousand world realms. Ānanda, traveling without resting for seven days and nights toward the east through as many world realms with such speed born of the power of miraculous ability, and likewise having gone toward the south, the west, the north, and likewise the intermediate directions of southeast, southwest, northwest, northeast, and likewise the directions of zenith and nadir for seven days and nights without resting; if someone were then to surround all those world realms of the ten directions with an enclosure, and having surrounded them with an enclosure, were to clear away all the stones, pebbles, potsherds, and broken