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# འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 201

The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (2) 201

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### [201](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.201)

And they scattered sal⁴³⁵ flowers  
When Ratnoccaya was brought forth.  
  
“The dharmabhāṇaka Ratnoccaya  
Washed his body and wore clean robes,  
And when he approached that throne  
With his palms together, he bowed to it.  
  
“The deva lords, the devas and devīs  
Residing in the sky, sent down a rain  
Of coral tree flowers and played  
Countless thousands of musical instruments.  
  
“The dharmabhāṇaka bhikṣu Ratnoccaya,  
Remembering countless thousands of millions  
Of buddhas in the ten directions,  
Mounted the throne and sat upon it.  
  
“Thinking of all beings with kindness  
And developing a compassionate mind,  
At that time he taught this sūtra  
To that king, Susaṃbhava.  
  
“The king bowed with palms together  
And rejoiced in each single word.  
Through the Dharma’s power he shed tears,  
And his body was permeated with joy.  
  
“In order to make an offering to this sūtra,  
At that time King Susaṃbhava held up  
A king of precious wish-fulfilling jewels  
And made a prayer for the benefit of all beings:  
  
“ ‘May there rain down on this Jambudvīpa  
Jewelry that contain the seven jewels  
And whatever great wealth⁴³⁶ that will bring  
Happiness to the beings in this Jambudvīpa.’  
  
“Just then a rain of the seven jewels,  
Of armlets, necklaces, and excellent earrings,  
And similarly, food, drink, and clothing,⁴³⁷  
Rained down upon the four continents.  
  
“When King Susaṃbhava saw  
That precious rain fall on Jambudvīpa,  
He offered the four continents that were  
Filled with jewels to the teaching of Ratnaśikhin.⁴³⁸  
  
“I, the Tathāgata Śākyamuni, was  
The king named Susaṃbhava,  
And at that time I offered up this earth  
With its four continents filled with jewels.  
  
“The dharmabhāṇaka bhikṣu Ratnoccaya,  
Who was the one at that time who taught  
This sūtra to King Susaṃbhava,

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- [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556.201) — Classical Tibetan

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