[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa) › [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) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (3)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000) › 4.16 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.16 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 4.16 - **Language:** English ### [4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.16) With their minds filled with joy, Will here give their protection To those who delight in this sūtra. “They will bestow on those beings Life and color and strength, And will constantly adorn them with perfect Glory and merit and magnificence. “They will end all harm from The planets and the lunar asterisms. They will bring to an end all troubles, Bad actions, and nightmares. “The goddess of the earth herself, Who has depth and great strength, Will be satiated by the flavor of The Lord King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. “For sixty-eight thousand Times a hundred yojanas, As far down as the vajra foundation, The fertility of the earth will increase. “The fertility of the earth that has sunk A whole hundred yojanas below Will rise back upward And enrich the surfaces. “Every one of all those devas, through The power of listening to the sūtra, Will be satiated by the flavor of The Lord King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. “They will become perfectly brilliant,³⁴⁴ And similarly they will have strength. They will be happy and satisfied. Throughout the entirety of Jambudvīpa,³⁴⁵ “The devas of fruits, harvests, and forests Will be satisfied by various flavors, And they will be completely delighted, Satisfied by the flavor of the sūtra. “Then the fruits and the harvests, And the various kinds of flowers And the various kinds of fruit trees, Will all develop perfectly. “All the fruit trees, The parks, and the forests Will blossom with flowers Emitting their various aromas. “All the plants and trees That have various kinds of flowers And various kinds of fruits Will grow upon the earth. “Throughout the entirety of this Jambudvīpa, There will be innumerable nāga maidens Whose minds will become filled with joy, And they will come to where the ponds are. “And there will grow in all the ponds A variety of night lotuses, Red lotuses, and similarly Blue lotuses and white lotuses. - [Previous: 4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.15) - [Next: 4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.17) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [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-d557.4.16-17) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.16) · Pramāṇa