འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་ཡལ་བསམ་གྱས་མ་ཁྱབ་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.3

2.3

vairocana saddharmabhaṇako ’sya sūtrasya dhāraka abhram ugata²⁴ iva sūrya svāhā | ²⁵

“Bhagavān, preachers of the Dharma will be thoroughly protected by these words, and gods of the māra realm who would hinder them will have no opportune time or place. And before departing, they will make donations of robes, alms, bedding, medicine for sickness, and assembled useful provisions to them. They will delight them and will delight in inspiring them. Bhagavān, sons and daughters of the lineage who utter this mantra will have undistracted minds both day and night, and will be protected by the gods. They will be protected by nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kiṃnaras, and mahoragas, as well as humans and nonhumans alike. Henceforth any opponents and enemies who try to harm them will be unable to do so.”

The Bhagavān then gave Māra Pāpīyān his approval: “This is excellent, Pāpīyān, just excellent! Your presentation of this mantra here has shaken the realms of the world, as numerous as the grains of sand along the banks of the Ganges, in six ways. All of your eloquence should be considered a blessing of Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta. While Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta’s magical power to create miracles and his blessings were being revealed, and while the power of Māra’s secret mantra and the power of his vidyā mantra were being taught, twenty thousand beings developed the mind set on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening.”

Then Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, gathering in his miraculous manifestations, said to the god Śrībhadra, “Divine being, return to the Heaven of Joy! Assemble the gods of the Heaven of Joy and I will come there.” After listening to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta,