དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 10.5
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 10.5
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10.5
the rākṣasī named Puṣpadantī, the rākṣasī named Makuṭadantī, the rākṣasī named Keśinī, the rākṣasī named Acalā, the rākṣasī named Mālādhārī, the rākṣasī named Kuntī, the rākṣasī named Sarvasattvojohārī, and the rākṣasī named Hārītī, with her children and servants—all those rākṣasīs came to where the Bhagavān was, and having arrived they all said in one voice to the Bhagavān, “Bhagavān, we too will guard, protect, and conceal that kind of dharmabhāṇaka who upholds a sūtra such as this, so that if someone is seeking an opportunity to harm those dharmabhāṇakas they will not find an opportunity to do so.”
Then those rākṣasīs in one voice, with the same words, offered these dhāraṇī-mantra words to the Bhagavān:
“Tadyathā:⁵⁶⁶ itime itime itime itime itime⁵⁶⁷ nime nime nime nime nime ruhe ruhe⁵⁶⁸ ruhe ruhe ruhe⁵⁶⁹ stuhe stuhe stuhe stuhe stuhe⁵⁷⁰ svāhā.⁵⁷¹
“If this is placed upon the head, there is no one who will be able to injure the dharmabhāṇakas. A yakṣa, rākṣasa, preta, piśāca, pūtana, kṛtya, vetāla, kumbhāṇḍa, stabdha, ostāraka,⁵⁷² or apasmāraka; a kṛtya that is a yakṣa, a kṛtya that is nonhuman, or a kṛtya that is a human; those that cause illness for a day, for two days, for three days, for four days, or permanently; and those who appear in dreams in the form of a woman, the form of a man, or the form of a boy, or the form of a girl so as to cause harm, will not be able to do so.”
Then those rākṣasīs in one voice, with the same words, recited these verses to the Bhagavān:
“If someone attacks a dharmabhāṇaka
And they hear this mantra
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