འཕགས་པ་ཁྱའ་བཞའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.6

1.6

Like those at the summit of Sumeru, all those beings living on Sumeru, the king of mountains—gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, and mahoragas—were struck with grief when they heard of the Blessed One’s parinirvāṇa. “Blessed Śākyamuni,” they cried, “king among lords of the Śākyas, who reached perfection countless millions of eons ago, whose roots of virtue are utterly pure, will today, in the country of the Mallas, before a pair of śāla trees, pass without grasping, into parinirvāṇa. Today, the eye of this world with its gods, shall close!” they cried, and they journeyed toward Kuśinagara, traveling with such haste that the peaks of Sumeru, the king of mountains, shook and trembled; traveling with such haste that Sumeru, the king of mountains, along with its oceans, quaked and roiled so violently that those at the summit of Sumeru, the king of mountains, fell into the ocean.

Then Venerable Aniruddha, still seated at the summit of Sumeru, let out a great cry and spoke these verses:¹⁹

“The leader of worlds,
Who bestows joy on those worlds,
Who is worthy of beings’ offerings,
The sage, will pass into nirvāṇa today.

“The source of wisdom, conqueror of darkness and gloom,
Father and mother to all living creatures,
Our refuge and our last resort,
The sage, will pass into nirvāṇa today.

“The remover of pain, free from wrongdoing and affliction,
The sublime sustainer, the great physician
Who removes the thorns of nonvirtuous behavior,
The sage, will pass into nirvāṇa today.

“Seeing beings overpowered by attachment and aversion,
Crushed by ignorance, caught up in old age and death,
Stuck, and following mistaken paths,
He developed compassion for the world and taught the Dharma.

“He to whom appeared the hordes of Māra, fierce in form,
In various guises and brandishing adamantine weapons,²⁰
Some flaunting many frightful features,