འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.23
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 5.23
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5.23
“ ‘The excellent lord of kings, Śuddhodana,
Was the king who was named Mahāratha.
The queen was the excellent Queen Māyā.
Mahāpraṇāda was Maitreya.
“ ‘Similarly, Prince Mahādeva
Was Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta.
The tigress was Mahāprajāpatī,
And the tiger cubs were the five bhikṣus.⁴⁰⁴
“ ‘Then King Mahāratha and the queen, wailing pitifully many times, removed their jewelry and, together with a great gathering of people, made offerings to the bones of their son. The bones of Mahāsattva they placed in this area, and they constructed this stūpa of seven precious materials.
“ ‘This Mahāsattva, having given his body to the tigress, prayed, “Through this gift of my body, may I afterward, in a future time, after countless eons have passed, accomplish the deeds of a buddha for beings.” ’
“When this teaching was given, countless, innumerable beings, including humans and devas, developed the aspiration to attain the highest, most complete enlightenment.
“This was the cause and condition for the appearance of that stūpa. Then, through the blessing of the Buddha, the stūpa went back down into the ground.”
Chapter 19: Praise by All Bodhisattvas
Then those hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas went to where the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnākaracchatrakūṭa was. When they arrived, they bowed down their heads to the feet of the Bhagavat Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnākaracchatrakūṭa and arranged themselves to one side. Having arranged themselves to one side, those hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas placed their palms together and praised the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnākaracchatrakūṭa with these verses:
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