[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Samādhirājasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo) › [The King of Samadhis Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000) › 4.8 # 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 The King of Samādhis Sūtra 4.8 - **Language:** English ### [4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4.8) 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 - [Previous: 4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4.7) - [Next: 4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4.9) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo.4.8) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.4.8) · Pramāṇa