འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.3

1.3

And Nairañjana­vasinī,
Hārītī, the mother of spirits,
And Dṛḍhā, the goddess of the earth;

“The lords of Brahmā devas, lords of the devas;²⁴
The greatly powerful lords of the nāgas;
And the lords of the kinnaras, the lords of the asuras,
And similarly the lords of the garuḍas²⁵

“Will come to the place where those people are,
Accompanied by troops and steeds,
And will be their protectors,
Attentive day and night.

“I will elucidate this sūtra,
Which is the profound field of the buddhas,
Which is the secret of all buddhas,
And which is difficult to obtain in a million eons.

“Those who hear this sūtra
And cause others to hear it,
And those who rejoice in this sūtra,
And those who make offerings to it,

“Throughout millions of eons
Will themselves receive offerings
From devas, nāgas, and humans,
And from kinnaras, asuras, and yakṣas.²⁶

“For beings who create²⁷ this merit,
There will arise for them
An infinite, incalculable,
Inconceivable mass of merit.

“They will be taken into the care
Of the perfect²⁸ buddhas in the ten directions,
And similarly by the bodhisattvas
Who have profound activity.

“Having put on clean clothes,
Wearing perfumed clothing,²⁹
And having a loving mind,
They should offer without distraction.³⁰

“They should make their
Own minds pure and vast,
And with minds filled with faith,
They should listen to this sublime sūtra.

“Those who listen to this sūtra
Will be welcomed among humans,³¹
Will attain an excellent human existence,³²
And will live happy lives.

“Those in whose ears
This teaching sounds³³
Will plant good roots
And be praised by many buddhas.”

Chapter 2: The Teaching on the Lifespan of the Tathāgata

Also, at that time, there dwelled in the great city of Rājagṛha