འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.1

5.1

Chapter 7: A Praise Using the Analogy of a Lotus

⁵⁹⁵ Then the Bhagavat said to the virtuous goddess who is the goddess of the Bodhi tree,⁵⁹⁶ “Now know this, Goddess Śrī,⁵⁹⁷ you should listen well and remember this praise of the buddhas and purification through regret that came as a loud sound from a golden drum that was seen in the bodhisattva’s⁵⁹⁸ dream at night.⁵⁹⁹

“In the past, there was a king by the name of Lord of Golden Nāgas,⁶⁰⁰ who always praised and extolled the buddhas in the ten directions and three times as being like a red lotus.”

He then recited these verses of praise to the multitude:

“ ‘Those jinas who have appeared in the past,
And the jinas present in the ten directions,⁶⁰¹
I pay homage to all those jinas⁶⁰²
And I praise all those jinas.⁶⁰³

“ ‘A lord of munis is peaceful, totally peaceful, and pure.
His body shines with a golden color.⁶⁰⁴
A buddha’s voice is the most melodious of all voices,⁶⁰⁵
Speech that resounds like the voice of Brahmā.

“ ‘He has hair⁶⁰⁶ like a bee, a peacock, and ink,⁶⁰⁷
With blue curls, like the blue jaybird.
His teeth are as white as snow or a conch⁶⁰⁸
And always shining as if adorned by gold.⁶⁰⁹

“ ‘His eyes are blue, wide, and perfectly stainless;
They are like blue lotuses in blossom.
His broad, excellent tongue is the color of a red lotus—
It is like a lotus, a shining lotus blossom.⁶¹⁰

“ ‘Between the eyebrows, the ūrṇā hair is the color of a conch or lotus root.⁶¹¹
It curls to the right and is the color of a white beryl.
It is like a crescent moon, a sliver of the moon.
The protector Muni’s body shines like a carpenter bee.⁶¹²

“ ‘His face has a bright and prominent nose
That is smooth, excellent, and like a golden staff—