དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.22

7.22

Is the number of sand grains
In sixty Ganges Rivers. {10}

“And there are even more than that:
Others with endless followers
As numerous as the grains of sand
in fifty, in forty, in thirty, {11}

“And in twenty Ganges Rivers.
There are such numbers of assemblies of followers,
And there are even more than that,
As numerous as sands in ten and five Ganges Rivers. {12}

“The assemblies of each of those protectors
Those sons of the buddhas—
Guide, assemblies such as these,
Where have they come from? {13}

“In the assemblies of the bodhisattvas
There are accompanying students
Who are as numerous as the sands
In four, three, or two Ganges, {14}

“And there are others far more numerous.
There is no end to their numbers.
It would not be possible to count them
Even in ten thousand million eons. {15}

“There are also retinues
Of the bodhisattvas, heroes, protectors,
That equal a half, a third, a tenth,
Or a twentieth of the Ganges sands. {16}

“And there are others far more numerous,
And if one were to count them one by one
One would not be able to calculate the number of them
Even in a thousand million eons. {17}

“And there are others far more numerous,
With assemblies that are numerous:
A hundred trillion, and ten million,
And also those that are five million. {18}

“There are also great rishis
Who are bodhisattvas with great wisdom.
They are beyond number,
And all are present showing reverence. {19}

“Their followers number a thousand,
Or similarly a hundred, or fifty—
One could not count them all
Even in a thousand million eons. {20}

“The followers of those heroes
Also number twenty, or ten, or five,
Or similarly four, or three, or two—
One cannot count them all. {21}

“There are those who travel alone,
Who find peace on their own.
They who have come here on this day,
They also are beyond enumeration. {22}

“If someone were to count them for eons
As numerous as the Ganges sands
Using a stick held in their hand,