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 12.23

12.23

He gave them the shining elixir of amrita,
But because of my desires I had him slain.¹²⁵⁹ {i}

“ ‘He explained to beings the Dharma
That is profound, peaceful, and difficult to see.
He was a teacher of the supreme essence of enlightenment,
But because of my desires I had him slain. {99}

“ ‘He possessed the Dharma treasure of the guides,
And he was a lamp for a world in darkness.
He possessed the retention of the king of sūtras,
But because of my desires I had him slain. {100}

“ ‘He was free of the kleśas and possessed pure wisdom,
And he constantly rested in a state of peace, perfect peace.
I had him killed today because of my desires,
Which was extremely evil, and I will go to hell. {101}

“ ‘The buddhas of the past and of the future,
And the jinas, the supreme men, of the present,
Who are endlessly praised and have an ocean of qualities,
With my hands together in homage I go to them for refuge.’ {102}

“When King Śūradatta saw that the body of the slain dharmabhāṇaka Supuṣpacandra that lay on the ground had not altered in color he was distressed, sorrowful, and remorseful. He became crazed and wailed loudly.

“He recited these mournful verses that praised the qualities of the dharmabhāṇaka Supuṣpacandra:¹²⁶⁰

“ ‘The noble saṅgha in Samantabhadra Forest
Requested you in many different ways
Not to go to Ratnāvatī, the capital city,
Because there would be a danger to your life. {i}

“ ‘You did not listen to that saṅgha of bhikṣus.
Why, venerable one, did you come to the town?
Whatever the reason might be that you came,
You should accomplish it, O lamp for the world! {ii}

“ ‘The ground is adorned by a variety of divine plants.
There is a dense multitude of shining, beautiful trees.
It is protected by supreme siddhas and vidyādharas,¹²⁶¹
It is frequented by devas, and the lords of birds sing there.¹²⁶² {iii}

“ ‘You departed from the perfect, delightful
Samantabhadra Forest, where the buddhas always dwell.