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 7.3

7.3

And had fallen away from the Sugata’s teaching,
At that time repeatedly urged the king to action. {13}

“ ‘You must kill those two dharmabhāṇakas.
They are tīrthikas who are teaching nihilism.
Among those who have adopted that practice for a long time
There are none who have attained nirvāṇa. {14}

“ ‘They deny karma, they deny ripening;
Those imposters teach that there are no skandhas.
Your Majesty, banish them from the land
And then the Dharma will remain for a long time.’ {15}

“When he had listened to what they had to say,
The elephant-like king became distrustful.
‘I shall kill these two dharmabhāṇakas.
I must not leave them alone, for that would be harmful.’⁷⁶⁴ {16}

“The king was attended by a goddess⁷⁶⁵
Who had practiced with him in a previous lifetime.
She was wise and had benefited him for a long time,
And at this time she said to the sovereign king, {17}

“ ‘Kṣatriya,⁷⁶⁶ do not think in this way
Because of what bad associates have said.
Do not kill⁷⁶⁷ those two wise dharmabhāṇakas
Because of what bad associates have said. {18}

“ ‘Lord of men, do you not remember even a little
Of what they said to you in the forest grove?
In this perfectly terrible time of degeneration,
Remain on the side of Dharma, elephant-like king!’ ⁷⁶⁸ {19}

“The king, inspired by those true words,
Did not abandon the teachings of the jinas.⁷⁶⁹
But the king had a cruel brother
Who was persuaded by those around him.⁷⁷⁰ {19b–20a}⁷⁷¹

“They told him, ‘The king, your brother, is wicked;
He has no joy in being alive.⁷⁷²
Those two bhikṣus possess dreadful spells.
With those spells they can fly through the sky.⁷⁷³ {20}

“ ‘Having heard this we have come to you,
To tell you all that has occurred.
Quickly kill those dreadful magicians,
Or afterward you will be filled with regret.’ {21}

“Then the king’s brother⁷⁷⁴ put on his armor,
Under the influence of those bad associates.
The king’s brother, encircled by his entire army,
Came to the forest where the two bhikṣus dwelt. {22}

“The nāgas and yakṣas that lived in that forest
Knew the intention of the king’s dreadful, cruel brother