འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.11

3.11

The four protectors of the world,
With great miracles, guard it well.

“The buddhas in the ten directions
Always think of¹⁹⁴ this lord of sūtras.
Whenever this sūtra is taught,
The buddhas express their approval.

“The million million yakṣas that guard
The domains in the ten directions
Listen to this lord of sūtras
With joyful minds and with delight.

“The hosts of devas that dwell
In Jambudvīpa are beyond number.
Those hosts of devas, with complete joy,
Listen to this lord of sūtras.

“Through the act of listening to this sūtra,
They gain magnificence, strength, and diligence,
And the magnificence of their divine bodies
Vastly increases and expands.”

The Four Maharajas, on hearing these verses from the Bhagavat, were astonished, amazed, and overjoyed. Through the power of the Dharma, they briefly wept and shed tears. Their bodies shook and their limbs trembled, and they felt joy, bliss, and happiness. They scattered divine coral tree flowers toward the Bhagavat.

When they had scattered them, they rose from their seats, and with their upper robes over one shoulder, knelt on their right knee, and with palms together in homage, bowed toward the Bhagavat and said, “Venerable Bhagavat, we, the Four Mahārājas, each with five hundred yakṣas, will always follow behind the dharmabhāṇaka bhikṣu in order to guard and protect that dharmabhāṇaka.”

Chapter 8: Sarasvatī