འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 177

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Those beings are endowed with all requisites.³⁷³ Through the power of the great goddess Śrī, they make offerings to that tathāgata. They make offerings of perfumes, flowers, and incense.³⁷⁴ They recite the name ‘the great goddess Śrī’³⁷⁵ three times, and offer him perfume, incense, and flowers.³⁷⁶ They also offer him a variety of flavors, and then their great accumulations of grain increase. It is said concerning this:

“The fertility of the earth increases in the earth.
The devas will be constantly, perfectly happy.
The deities³⁷⁷ of fruits, harvests, plants, and trees
Cause a great variety of harvests to arise.

“I, the great goddess Śrī, will direct my mind toward those beings who say the name of The Lord King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light and I will create a great splendor for them.”

Then the Bhagavat congratulated the great goddess Śrī, saying, “It is excellent, excellent that you, goddess, through remembering your past actions make offerings to the tathāgata to benefit countless beings, bring them the benefit of happiness, and possess the inexhaustible merit from spreading this sūtra.”

Chapter 17: The Increase of Wealth by the Great Goddess Śrī

Then the great goddess Śrī said these words to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, not far from here to the north, in the environs of Alakāvati, the palace of Mahārāja Vaiśravaṇa, there is a sublime pleasure grove by the name of Puṇya­kusuma­prabha, in which there is a mansion made of the seven precious materials which is called Padmottara­suvarṇa­dhvaja,³⁷⁸ which is where I live.

“Any person who wishes to increase their accumulation of grain