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# འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.9

The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 3.9

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### [3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.3.9)

“Guard, defend, take in your care, protect, and bring peace and well-being to the bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, and upāsikās who will teach this Lord King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light.”  
  
Then Mahārāja Vaiśravaṇa, Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Mahārāja Virūḍhaka, and Mahārāja Virūpākṣa 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.  
  
At that time, they directly praised the Bhagavat with these appropriate verses:  
  
“To the stainless moon of the Jina’s body,  
To the light of the thousand rays of the Jina’s sun,  
To the stainless lotuses of the Jina’s eyes,  
And to the spotless lotus roots of the Jina’s teeth;  
  
“To the sea of the Jina’s qualities  
That is the source of many jewels;  
To the Jina’s ocean filled with the water of wisdom  
That is pervaded by hundreds of thousands of samādhis;  
  
“To the Jina’s feet with the design of wheels,  
With hubs, rims, and a thousand spokes;  
To the hands and feet beautified by webs,  
The webs of the feet like those of the lord of geese;  
  
“And to the mountain of the Jina that is stainless gold  
And that is shining like a golden mountain,  
Who, like Meru, possesses all qualities—  
To the Jina, the lord of mountains, we pay homage.  
  
“To the Tathāgata who is like the sun and moon,¹⁸⁸  
To the one who is similar to and equal to space,¹⁸⁹  
Who has no impediment like a mirage or illusion, ¹⁹⁰  
To the stainless Jina we pay homage.”  
  
The Bhagavat then spoke these verses to the Four Mahārājas:

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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-d557.3.9) — Classical Tibetan

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