འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 92

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Blessed One, why do you smile?
Peerless one, please instruct us through your wisdom!”

Then the Blessed One said to Venerable Ānanda, “Ānanda, did you see the array of offerings that the nāga king Anavatapta presented to the Thus-Gone One?”

“Yes, Blessed One, I did.”

The Blessed One continued, “In order to attain awakening, the nāga king Anavatapta has formerly practiced the holy life in the presence of nine hundred ninety million buddhas. When the Thus-Gone Dīpaṃkara prophesied to me, ‘In the future, you will be the thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha named Śākyamuni,’ this nāga king was a merchant’s son named Viśuddhamati. When he heard my prophecy, he made this prayer: ‘In the future, may I, too, receive a prophecy like the one this boy Sumati has received.’

“Ānanda, just as the nāga king Anavatapta makes offerings to me now, so, too, will he offer his kingdom and its adornments to all the thus-gone ones of the Fortunate Eon. Understanding his pure motivation, all the thus-gone ones will teach him this Dharma teaching on the pure path, and the thus-gone ones Krakucchanda, Kanakamuni, and Kāśyapa have also taught this teaching on the Dharma gateway of the pure path while residing in this place. The lord of nāgas Anavatapta will make offerings to all the thus-gone ones of the Fortunate Eon. He will listen to the Dharma from them, and henceforth he will please countless thus-gone ones,