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 7.4
The King of Samādhis Sūtra 7.4
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7.4
And hurled upon them a rain of bricks and stones
That killed the king’s brother and his army. {23}
“See how the life of the king’s cruel brother came to an end
Because he listened to what bad associates said.
Those who were angry at the dharmabhāṇakas
Took rebirth sixty times in the Avīci hell. {24}
“Those numerous bhikṣus who believed in reality
And drove the kṣatriya king to action
Experienced the sufferings of hell
For countless billons of rebirths. {25}
“The goddess who influenced the king
And protected the dharmabhāṇakas
Saw buddhas as numerous as sand grains in ten million Ganges,
Made offerings to them, and engaged in practice. {26}
“The multitudinous six quintillion men,
Who with the king had heard the Dharma
And developed the aspiration to enlightenment,
Became buddhas in numerous different realms. {27}
“Their lifespans were many millions of eons.
They had inconceivable, unequaled wisdom.
They all taught this excellent samādhi,
And then those supreme humans passed into nirvāṇa. {28}
“Having heard this unsurpassable teaching
On the accumulation of correct conduct, purity, qualities, and wisdom,
You must practice intently, without distraction,
And quickly attain the wisdom of buddhahood.⁷⁷⁵ {29}
“Look upon us, you tathāgatas in the ten directions,
Who have peaceful minds and compassionate, loving eyes.
You are the refuge and protection for all beings.
Send down your rain of Dharma upon the world.⁷⁷⁶ {30}
“Do not think that those two young men,
Those perfect sons,⁷⁷⁷ were anyone else:
Dīpaṃkara was at that time one of them,
And I was the second dharmabhāṇaka. {30a}
“At that time Maitreya was the king⁷⁷⁸
Who listened favorably to the Dharma.
And you, young man, at that time,
Were the wise goddess who wished to help. {30b}
“At that time, Devadatta
Was the king’s brother,
Influenced by the acquisitive bhikṣus