འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 17

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And are solid and stable,
Then there will be a relic.

“When all the leeches
Grow teeth that are
Long, white, and sharp,
Then there will be a relic.

“When a ladder is built
From the horns of hares
For climbing to the upper realms,
Then there will be a relic.

“When a mouse climbs that ladder
And then eats the moon
And attacks the eclipse,
Then there will be a relic.

“When a village-dwelling fly
Drinks a pitcher of beer
And lives in a house,
Then there will be a relic.

“When a happy donkey
Has lips as red as a bimba fruit
And is expert in song and dance,
Then there will be a relic.

“When owls and crows
Cavort together in private
And live together in harmony,
Then there will be a relic.

“When the leaves of the palash tree
Become a parasol of three kinds of jewels
And provide shelter from the falling rain,
Then there will be a relic.

“When a great oceangoing ship,
With its instruments and sails,
Comes onto and travels over dry land,
Then there will be a relic.

“When an owl picks up
Gandhamādana Mountain
In its beak and flies away,
Then there will be a relic.”

On hearing those verses, the Kauṇḍinya brahmin, the Dharma master Vyākaraṇa, replied to the Licchavī youth Sarva­sattva­priya­darśana with these verses:

“Good! Good! Best of youths,
Son of the jinas, with great words,
Skilled in methods, heroic,
Who has received the highest prophecy,

“Young man, listen to me describe,
In order, the inconceivable