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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 4.7

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 4.7

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4.7

Made offerings there to the supreme individual. {57}

Also numerous Karoṭapāṇi yakṣas
And adorned yakṣa maidens
Made offerings to the Buddha
With hundreds of compositions of
The beautiful, melodious music of the yakṣas. {58}

Druma, the king of the kinnaras,
With thousands of kinnara maidens skilled
In sweet and melodious songs and music,
Arrived from Gandhamādana to make offerings to the supreme Jina. {59}

Śambara, Bala, Vemacitra, and Rāhu,
Together with an entourage of thousands of asura maidens,
And together with crowds of other powerful asuras,
Came and sent down a rain of jewels. {60}

From countless trillions of rākṣasas
A thousand million rākṣasas honored him.
They respectfully scattered a multitude of various
Flower petals upon the supreme individual. ⁴⁸³ {61}

The nāga king Girivalgu,
With a great entourage came before the Tathāgata,
Holding great numbers of perfect, precious flowers,
And bowed down at the Sugata’s feet.⁴⁸⁴ {i}

The nāga lords Padma and Mahāpadma,
And also Vāsuki, Ananta, and Phanaka,⁴⁸⁵
Came before the great leader
And respectfully bowed to the Sugata. {ii}

The nāga king Maṇi, filled with joy,
Came before the feet of the great leader
Holding fragrant, perfect nāga flowers
And sat before the Sugata at no great distance. {iii}

Also the nāga king Anavatapta,
With perfectly trained nāga maidens
Playing a hundred thousand musical instruments and drums,
Came and made offerings there to the Lord of the World. {62}

The five hundred sons of Anavatapta,
Encircled by their kindred and filled with joy,
Seeking the highest, vast wisdom,
Came to make offerings to the self-arisen one. {63}

Similarly, the nāga king Apalāla,
Palms together, bowed to the supreme individual
Holding beautiful, excellent nāga pearls.
He remained in the sky, making offerings to the king of sages. {64}

Similarly, the nāga king Mucilinda,
With great happiness and filled with joy,
Holding various jewels and pearls,

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