[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) › 4.4 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.4 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 4.4 - **Language:** English ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.4) And does not appropriately punish The people who are guilty of bad acts, “ ‘ “And ignores the evils that are done, Then unrighteousness will increase greatly, Conflicts and dishonesty Will subsequently arise in the land, “ ‘ “And the lords of devas³⁰⁰ will be disturbed Within their Trāyastriṃśa palace. Whenever a king does nothing about The wicked inhabitants in his realm, “ ‘ “Then there will be terrible dishonesty, And dreadful people will vanquish his land. The armies of adversaries will invade And will completely destroy that land, “ ‘ “And they will destroy property and families. People will steal from one another, Using many forms of dishonesty, Whatever wealth has been accumulated. ³⁰¹ “ ‘ “There are the duties of kingship, And if those activities are not carried out, Then he will destroy his own kingdom Like a king of elephants destroys a pond. “ ‘ “Disastrous winds will blow, Disastrous rains will fall, And the sun, the moon, the planets, And lunar asterisms will bring disaster. “ ‘ “In the land where the king is impassive, Seeds, harvests, flowers, and fruit Will fail to ripen properly And famines will occur. “ ‘ “Whenever a king does nothing about The wicked inhabitants in his realm, Then the devas in their palaces Will at that time become displeased.³⁰² “ ‘ “All of those lords of devas Will be saying to one another, ‘This king³⁰³ has no righteousness; He is on the side of unrighteousness.’ “ ‘ “Such a king will before long Cause the devas to be disturbed, And because the devas are disturbed, His kingdom will be completely destroyed. “ ‘ “Unrighteousness will arise in that land, And it will also be destroyed by weapons.³⁰⁴ Dishonesty and conflicts And also illness will arise. “ ‘ “The lords of devas will be enraged And the devas will abandon him. The kingdom will be destroyed And the king will encounter misery. “ ‘ “He will be separated from those he loves Whether they be brothers or sons. He will even be separated from his beloved wife - [Previous: 4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.3) - [Next: 4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.5) - [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-d557.4.4) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d557~en-84000.4.4) · Pramāṇa