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 11.18

11.18

“ ‘He always has a mind that is vast,
The extent of his conduct is immeasurable,
He is learned in words and their definite meaning,
And he cannot be defeated by opponents. {36}

“ ‘I have no fear that I will fall into lower realms,
And I will not again become a woman
Throughout thousands of millions of eons,
As I have performed a supreme service for the dharmabhāṇaka.’ ” {37}

At this point, the Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha, “Therefore, young man, when the princess had heard this Dharma of the bodhisattva, which is marvelous, wonderful, and very difficult to practice, in order to serve the sick dharmabhāṇaka for whom there was no medicine, she used her own flesh and blood to heal him. Even the gift of just one finger will be a service to the stūpa of the Dharma for beings.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān gave a detailed teaching on that account of the past by chanting the following extensive verses to the youth Candraprabha:¹¹⁸⁴

“The one who makes an offering of a single toe
Gains excellent merit that is millions of times greater
Than that from offering to the guides
Jewels filling buddha realms as numerous as the Ganges sands. {38}

“After that girl had passed away
She saw ten thousand million buddhas.
She entered homelessness in all their teachings
And obtained the supreme peace of this samādhi. {39}

“When all those supreme humans
Had passed into nirvāṇa
As bodhisattvas,¹¹⁸⁵ unafflicted,
She always maintained homelessness. {40}

“She practiced celibacy within the teachings
Of the tathāgata Dīpaprabha.¹¹⁸⁶
Never again reverting to being a woman,
She became a dharmabhāṇaka bhikṣu. {41}

“Maitreya was Jñānabala, the ruler of men,
Who always maintained the supreme Dharma.
Dīpaṃkara was that dharmabhāṇaka,
And I was then that princess. {42}

“Akṣobhya, when he was practicing bodhisattva conduct,
Was at that time the ancient goddess of the family,
Who was the attendant of sovereign Jñānabala
And revealed the dream to the king.¹¹⁸⁷ {i}