འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 36

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After Venerable Mahāmaudgalyāyana had presented his message, he left. Then the nāga king Anavatapta, along with his sons, wives, relatives, and retinue, went to where the Blessed One was, bearing all kinds of flowers, powders, incense, ointments, fabrics, parasols, banners, flags, instruments, and drums, and on arrival he offered them as gifts to the Blessed One in the appropriate manner.

Then the Blessed One, surrounded by many gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, bodhisattvas, and great hearers, proceeded to the abode of the nāga king Anavatapta. There he sat down cross-legged upon the lion throne that had been set out and arranged for him, while all the members of his entourage also took their respective seats. Once he saw that the Blessed One was seated, the nāga king Anavatapta, with his own hands, served him food and drinks—many fine dishes beyond the realm of human experience, full of heavenly tastes and endowed with a hundred different flavors. Only when he saw that he had finished eating, had put away his alms bowl, and had washed his hands did he request the Blessed One to teach the Dharma.

And so, that afternoon, after the Blessed One had risen from his rest, he sat down to teach the Dharma. At that time, the entire area, for a thousand leagues all around and up into the sky, was filled with gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, humans, and nonhumans.