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 11.15

11.15

“ ‘Daughter, from where did you obtain this blood?
And from where did you obtain this human flesh?
Daughter, by your preparing this food
The dharmabhāṇaka has become healthy. {1}

“ ‘Was it from someone slain or who had died that you obtained
This flesh prepared with various flavors?
Daughter, where did you obtain this blood
That has freed him from this evil sickness?’ {2}

“The daughter listened to her father’s words
And Jñānāvatī then addressed him.
With no despondency, she spoke these words:
‘Listen, father, to what I have to say. {3}

“ ‘I too, father, had the dream
That was sent by the goddess.
Lord of the World, listen to me,
And understand its true meaning. {4}

“ ‘That goddess said to me
That whoever gives to the bhikṣu
The flesh and blood of a human
Will cure him of his evil illness. {5}

“ ‘I arose from my bed
And I entered the harem.
I then related my dream
To my superiors, my mothers. {6}

“ ‘I asked the servants who among them
Would be able to do this,
To make perfectly delicious
Human blood and flesh? {7}

“ ‘If that food is given to him
And if the blood is applied,
The bhikṣu will be freed
From this black erysipelas. {8}

“ ‘If we do not use this method,
If we do not apply this remedy,
This bhikṣu will soon die
Because of this illness that he has. {9}

“ ‘What being in the three existences
Would not give their flesh and blood?¹¹⁸²
What wise ones on seeing this
Would hold fast to their body? {10}

“ ‘Though I told the harem of this,
Not even one woman said she would give.
The bhikṣu is beloved and he is beloved by me,
So I gave him my flesh and blood for the sake of enlightenment. {11}

“ ‘Those who seek enlightenment, peace, and freedom from misery
Have no devotion to their body or dependence on it;
Of themselves they cherish not even an atom,
And are not saddened to give themselves away. {12}

“ ‘When the harem heard those words,