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 12.6

12.6

As beautiful and bright as a conch.
The king and his followers¹²⁰⁸ will thus
Become envious and destroy your body.’ {11}

“Then the dharmabhāṇaka Supuṣpacandra recited the following verses to that great assembly of bodhisattvas:

“ ‘The sugatas who lived in the past
Were omniscient and without outflows.
They all benefited the world
And reached supreme enlightenment within the three existences.
They practiced the highest conduct, enlightenment’s cause.
They possessed supreme merit and wisdom.
Follow their example, bodhisattvas,
In order to protect millions of beings.’ {12}

“They all circumambulated the wise sage
And they bowed down to his feet.
Overwhelmed with compassion, they cried out,
Distressed, unhappy, wailing, and collapsing.
Some lost consciousness and fainted,
Falling to the ground like sal trees that had been cut down.
But the sage, determined to benefit beings
Through his accumulation of merit, did not turn back. {13}

“The sage took up his robes and bowl
And was prepared, like the maned lion.
He remained in the nature of the Dharma
And was unaffected by good or bad qualities.
If in this world I remain in this forest,
Beings will fall into lower realms, which would not be good.
Therefore in order to protect beings
I am going to the city and the supreme palace.’ {14}

“So the dharmabhāṇaka Supuṣpacandra went to the villages, the towns, the market towns, the kingdom, the regions, and the capital, where he taught the Dharma to beings. In the morning as he was going there, he established nine hundred and ninety million beings in irreversible progress toward the highest enlightenment, and that was before he had reached the capital city of Ratnāvatī. Once he had reached the capital city of Ratnāvatī, and was at the side of the capital city of Ratnāvatī, he sat at the feet of a wavy-leaf fig tree and a sal tree.