འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.8

4.8

“ ‘ “In that way, the monarch will
Give up his own dear life
In order to make the world happy
And not give up the precious Dharma.

“ ‘ “The one who is adorned by good qualities
Relies on being in possession of righteousness.
He constantly makes beings happy,
And he constantly rejects bad actions.

“ ‘ “He protects the realm with righteousness,
And he correctly teaches righteousness.
He establishes beings in good actions
And turns them away from bad actions.

“ ‘ “When he correctly subjugates
Those who commit bad actions,
There will be good harvests in the kingdom
And the king will have majesty.

“ ‘ “The king will be renowned
And will protect the happiness of beings.” ’ ”

Chapter 13: Susaṃbhava

“Whenever I was a cakravartin king,
I gave away the earth with its oceans.
I offered the four continents
Filled with jewels to the past jinas.

“Because I sought the Dharma body,
There was nothing in the past that was pleasant
And cherished that I did not give away,
And in many eons, I even gave up my cherished life.

“Many countless eons ago,
I was King Susaṃbhava
Within the teaching of the sugata Ratnaśikhin,
A sugata who had passed into nirvāṇa.

“He was a cakravartin who ruled the four continents,
And he reigned³¹⁵ over the land as far as the oceans.
At that time, the excellent king went to sleep
In the royal palace for the teaching of the lord of jinas.

“In a dream, he heard the qualities of a buddha,
And in the middle of his sleep,³¹⁶ he clearly saw
The dharmabhāṇaka Ratnoccaya
Teaching this lord of the sūtras.

“That king awoke from his sleep,
His entire body filled with joy.
He reverently left the royal capital
And approached the excellent śrāvaka saṅgha.