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 2.12

2.12

“Therefore, young man, because of this teaching, the bodhisattva mahāsattvas cherish in this way this samādhi. They know that it is composed of the unsurpassable wisdom of omniscience.”

Then, at that time, the Bhagavān gave a detailed teaching by chanting the following extensive verses to the youth Candraprabha.

“I remember, countless eons ago
In the past, a supreme human, a great sage
Who benefited beings appeared in the world,
And he was known by the name Ghoṣadatta. {12}

“The first assembly of his students
Numbered eight hundred million.²⁹⁴
The second was seven hundred million.
The third was six hundred million arhats. {13}

“All had eliminated defilements and were without kleśas.
All had attained the perfection of miraculous powers.
The lifespan was forty thousand years
And the realm was perfectly pure and beautiful. {14}

“The bodhisattvas of that protector
Were consecrated to immeasurably benefit others.
They were well established through their powers and levels.
They were near to buddhahood beneath the sacred tree.²⁹⁵ {15}

“In this Jambudvīpa there were kings
Named Dṛḍhabala and Mahābala.
One king ruled half the world,
The other was king over the other half. {16}

“The Buddha, to whom humans and devas made offerings,
Had appeared within the domain of King Mahābala.
The king gained faith in the Sugata
And attended him for a thousand years. {17}

“Many other beings, following his example,
Also honored the Tathāgata
With worldly goods and not through the Dharma.²⁹⁶
They gave many things to the śrāvakas also. {18}

“The highest of beings had this thought:
‘I shall teach the Dharma to these who desire the Dharma
So that they will all give up desire
And enter into homelessness in my teaching.’ {19}

“The highest of humans taught in verses
The practice of following the Dharma of the sugatas,