དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.20

2.20

On a wall with a fingernail or with a stick: {87}

“They will all of them attain enlightenment,
All of them will become compassionate,
All of them will liberate millions of beings,
And they will make many become bodhisattvas. {88}

“Those who make offerings of flowers and incense
To the relics of the tathāgatas,
To stūpas and images made of clay,
And to murals and stūpas made of earth; {89}

“Those who cause music to be played for them
With the pleasant sounds of ḍamarus,¹³⁹ conches, and bherī drums;¹⁴⁰
Those who play well upon drums
As an offering to the perfectly enlightened ones;¹⁴¹ {90}

“Those who do so with melodious lutes, cymbals, and gongs,
Mṛdaṅga drums,¹⁴² single-stringed lutes,¹⁴³ and flutes,
Which bring delight,¹⁴⁴ and are pleasant to hear:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {91}

“Those who, in order to make offerings to the sugatas,
Make music with strings of little bells,¹⁴⁵
With bowls of water,¹⁴⁶ by clapping their hands,
And with sweet, lovely well-sung songs— {92}

“Those who perform many kinds of offerings to the relics—
They will all become buddhas in the world.
Even those who make a little offering to the relics of a sugata,
Who play music on just one instrument, {93}

“Or make an offering with just one flower,
Or make an offering with a distracted¹⁴⁷ mind
To the image of a sugata in a mural,
They will eventually see millions of buddhas. {94}

“Those who make the gesture of homage to a stūpa,¹⁴⁸
Either completely or even with just one hand;
Or bow their head for just an instant,
Or similarly bow their body just one time; {95}

“Or say ‘Homage to the Buddha’ just one time
To those containers of the relics—
Even those who do so once with a distracted mind—
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {96}

“Those beings who, at a time when the sugatas
Have passed into nirvāṇa or are present,