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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 4.4

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 4.4

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4.4

There was no other light at that time
When there was the splendor of the Buddha entering the city. {24}

When with that great assembly the Sugata proceeded on the path,
Wherever the feet of the one with the ten strengths trod
There appeared from the ground a hundred thousand lotuses
That were pure and had ten thousand million petals. {25}

When the Guide entered the supreme city,
At that time there was no dirt or refuse.
Throughout the entire city there arose
The lovely aroma of the most fragrant incense. {26}

The entire city and its streets were purified.
They had no stones or gravel and were sprinkled with perfume
And bestrewn with the petals of various kinds of flowers.
That is the kind of merit the one with ten strengths had. {27}

When a hundred thousand yakṣas with ferocious minds
Saw the Buddha, the Lord of men who was like gold,
They felt an immense love for the Guide
And took refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha. {28}

All of the million millions⁴⁶² of devas
Who had come to see the Lord of men⁴⁶³
Let fall a rain of flowers on the Sugata.
They scattered flowers while in the middle of the sky. {29}

The flowers scattered by humans for the Jina
Formed a parasol of flowers in the sky.
The flowers scattered by the devas
Were strewn on the ground as divine flowers. {30}

The devas, humans, kumbhāṇḍas, and rākṣasas
Never tired of gazing upon him.
When they saw the Lord⁴⁶⁴ with the ten strengths,
They were overjoyed and felt the highest delight. {31}

When they saw the body of the supreme being,
All beings were overjoyed and delighted;
They did not even think of the divine flowers,
Which did not seem at all wonderful.⁴⁶⁵ {32}

Brahmā upon the right of the one with ten strengths,
Śakra, the king of the devas, on his left,
And the many millions of deities in the middle of the sky
Showed great veneration to the supreme being. {33}

Devas and asuras encircled the Jina,
Who eclipsed all the majesty of devas and humans.
With the soles of his feet making patterns on the ground,
The invited Bhagavān entered into the city. {34}

His body was beautified by excellent primary signs,
Like the firmament filled with stars.

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