འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.15

1.15

Then the Bhagavān taught extensively, as a praise in chanted verses, this chapter on the past lives of the youth Candraprabha:

“I remember ¹⁸⁰ six hundred million of those who have the ten strengths,¹⁸¹
Dwelling on Vulture Peak Mountain in the past
Who taught me, when I was practicing bodhisattva conduct,¹⁸²
This supreme peace of samādhi. {1}

“The last of all of them
Was the Lord of the World, the illuminator
Named Śālendrarāja,
And I asked him questions. {2}

“I had become of royal caste.
I was the principal king, the sovereign.
I had five hundred sons,
No less indeed than that. {3}

“For that buddha I built
Ten million monasteries
Made of special sandalwood,
And some of precious materials. {4}

“I was a king named Bhīṣmottara,
Beloved and adored by many beings.
For a hundred and eighty thousand million years
I made excellent offerings to that buddha. {5}

“The lifespan of the guide Śālendrarāja,
That jina, irreproachable,
Supreme among humans,¹⁸³
Was seven hundred and sixty thousand million years. {6}

“The saṅgha of that supreme man
Was composed of eight trillion śrāvakas
Who had the three knowledges, the six higher cognitions, and controlled senses,
Whose defilements had ceased, and who were in their last body. {7}

“At that time I always¹⁸⁴ longed for this samādhi
In order to benefit the people of the world and the devas,
And so I made many kinds of offerings
To that¹⁸⁵ jina, that supreme human.¹⁸⁶ {8}

“I, with my sons and wives,¹⁸⁷ entered homelessness
In the presence of Jina Śālendrarāja
And I asked questions about this samādhi for
A hundred and forty thousand million years. {9}

“I acquired from that sugata
The single chapter of this samādhi,
Which has eight thousand trillion verses
And moreover another hundred septillion.¹⁸⁸ {10}

“Because I longed for this sublime samādhi
There was nothing that I had not previously offered:
Heads, hands, legs,¹⁸⁹ wives and likewise sons,
An abundance of riches, and similarly food to eat. {11}

“I remember ten thousand million buddhas