[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) › 7.3 # 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 The King of Samādhis Sūtra 7.3 - **Language:** English ### [7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7.3) 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 - [Previous: 7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7.2) - [Next: 7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7.4) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7) ## 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.7.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.7.3) · Pramāṇa