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four or five hands⁴⁰⁶ in height, holding an axe in his hands. In front of that, make a square maṇḍala and in its four corners place four vases filled with liquid honey or molasses, and make offerings with ointments, powders, burning incense, and flower garlands. Alternatively, dig a fire-offering pit in front of the maṇḍala and in a fire that has no smoke burn a mixture of butter and mustard seeds, making a fire offering with each repetition of the mantra. In that way, make a burnt offering a hundred and eight times. I will reveal my body there and ask the mantra practitioner,⁴⁰⁷ ‘What is it that you want? Tell me what it is that you desire!’ and I will give them whatever they desire. If someone wishes for gold or silver, or wishes to search for treasure, or wishes to be a divine ṛṣi, it will be accomplished and they will attain the ability to fly in the sky and moreover all the higher cognitions, such as divine sight and knowing the minds of others. They will gain as wished for power over all beings and they will end the continuum of all the kleśas and will attain liberation.”

The Bhagavat then congratulated Saṃjñeya, the great general of the yakṣas, saying, “It is excellent, excellent, that you have inconceivably increased your merit by speaking these mantra words in order to bring benefit and happiness to all beings and to protect this sublime Dharma.”

Chapter 20: The King’s Treatise: The Commitment of the Lord of Devas

Then Dṛḍhā, the goddess of the earth, who was seated within that great assembly, rose from her seat, bowed down her head to the Bhagavat’s feet, and then, with her palms placed together, said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, if in any land there is a human king who does not practice the true Dharma,