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 9.10

9.10

With the qualities of music of various kinds of melodious sounds,
Make an offering to the Guide with a pure mind. {51}

“Create beautiful images of the Buddha,
Perfectly made of precious materials,⁹⁸²
That are attractive and extremely beautiful,
And this supreme samādhi will soon be attained. {52}

“Make excellent images that are fashioned
From gold or silver, and also sandalwood,
That are attractive and extremely beautiful,
And this supreme samādhi will soon be attained.⁹⁸³ {i}

“Make images that are fashioned of clay,
Or stone, or wood, or painted,
That are attractive and extremely beautiful,
And this supreme samādhi will soon be attained.⁹⁸⁴ {ii}

“Always remain in the solitude of forests,
Forsaking the joys of villages and towns.
Be without a companion, like a rhinoceros,
And this supreme samādhi will soon be attained. {53}

“I am the Lord of the Dharma; you are my son.
Train in this samādhi practice of mine.
I was at that time Dṛdhadatta, the world-renowned
Ruler over the descendants of Manu.⁹⁸⁵ {54}

“Seeking this peace, this supreme samādhi,
I made offerings to countless buddhas in the past.
I always maintained pure conduct
And I honored those with the ten strengths.⁹⁸⁶ {55}

“Seeking this peace, this supreme samādhi,
In the past I gave up my sons and wives.
I gave away my supreme, excellent head, legs,
Arms, and eyes without ever being disheartened. {56}

“Seeking this peace, this supreme samādhi,
I gave away wealth and grain,
Hundreds of male and female slaves, and many jewels,
And satisfied numerous beggars. {57}

“Seeking this peace, this supreme samādhi,
In the past I gave away great quantities
Of pearls, crystals, gold, conches, ammonite stones,⁹⁸⁷ beryls,
Perfectly pure jewels, and a mass⁹⁸⁸ of coral, {58}

“Seeking this peace, this supreme samādhi,
I gave away vast amounts of excellent jewelry
Of various kinds, such as perfect strings of pearls,
Lion jewelry,⁹⁸⁹ and nets of jewels. {59}