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 4.8

4.8

Came and scattered them for the Guide. {65}

Similarly, the nāga king Kālika
Came before the Tathāgata.
Joyful and holding perfect, beautiful strings of jewels,
He made offerings to the supreme individual.⁴⁸⁶ {66}

He⁴⁸⁷ felt great veneration as he thought
Of the qualities of the Tathāgata.
Encircled by his many nāga kindred,
He recited many praises of the Guide. {67}

Similarly, the nāga kings Nanda and Upananda—
Similarly, also, Takṣaka and Kṛṣṇagautama—
Came there gazing upon the Jina
And bowed down to the Sugata’s feet. {68}

The nāga king Elapatra
Came weeping, encircled by a hundred nāgas.
He remembered the supreme sage Jina Kāśyapa
And saw what an unfavorable rebirth he himself had obtained. {69}

“Alas! I had doubts in the past.
In the past I cut down an elapatra ⁴⁸⁸ bush,⁴⁸⁹
And therefore I obtained this unfavorable rebirth.
It is not easy to know the Dharma of the Jina. {70}

“I forsake this rebirth into a nāgī’s womb,
And this birth in an extremely detestable body.
I will realize the Dharma, the state of peace,
That the best of men realized in the Bodhimaṇḍa.” {71}

Sāgara, the nāga cakravartin king,
Accompanied by an entourage of thirty million nāgas,
And the majestic Varuṇa, holding necklaces of jewels,
Came in order to make offerings to the Bhagavān.⁴⁹⁰ {72}

The yakṣa of Rājagṛha who caught
While he was in the sky
The rock thrown at the Buddha
Was respectfully present before the Sugata. {73}

The entire domain of the king of Alakavatī⁴⁹¹
Became empty, with no yakṣa remaining there.
They had all promised each other
To come and see the Lord of the World. {74}

In the same way, Kharakarṇa and Sūciromā,
The terrifying yakṣas of the forests,
And the yakṣa Gardabhaka, who lives in the snow mountains,
Had come into the presence of the self-arisen Jina.⁴⁹² {75}

Indraketu, Vikaṭa, and Surūpa,
Bakula, Pañcika, and Śākyavardhana,⁴⁹³
And a thousand other yakṣa lords