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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 12.11

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 12.11

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12.11

He is majestic and illuminating
Like the moon at night,
Shining in the midst of the stars,
Or the disk of the rising sun. {30}

“ ‘He pays homage to all the kind buddhas
Who have the ten strengths and pacified senses.
If someone were to recite their praises
They could not finish even in a hundred eons.
One could not conclude describing their qualities
Even after many thousands of millions of eons.
One could not even conclude the praises
Of just one body hair of the most excellent in the world. {31}

“ ‘The omniscient buddhas have turned the Dharma wheel
And taught the unequaled level of wisdom;
They have taught the detailed, stainless Dharma
That is not to be found anywhere else.
The renunciants, brahmins, devas, and nāgas,
The asuras, māras, Brahmakāyika devas, and so on,
Are not able to describe the ocean of qualities
That the omniscient buddhas have. {32}

“ ‘We praise the unequaled Jina, the king of healing,
And this bhikṣu who is his heart son.’
The young daughters of the king joyfully
Recited those verses and at that time
They cast gold and gold dust
And spread out clothing
And top-knot jewels and necklaces
Worth a hundred million.¹²¹⁶
They presented these to the bhikṣu
And were joyfully established on the path to enlightenment.¹²¹⁷ {33}

“Then King Śūradatta thought, ‘Alas! My harem has gone astray, and so has the populace. These people have cast off their jewels and rings, taken off their shoes, bared one shoulder, knelt on their right knees, and with palms placed together they have paid homage to that bhikṣu.’

“King Śūradatta was not as handsome and not as attractive as that good-looking bhikṣu. Fearing for his royal status he became furious.

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