འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.13
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 7.13
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7.13
aparājitavīryāya⁹⁰⁶ svāhā | himavatsaṃbhūtāya⁹⁰⁷ svāhā | animilavaktrāya svāhā |⁹⁰⁸ namo bhagavate brāhmaṇe svāhā |⁹⁰⁹ namaḥ sarasvatyai devyai⁹¹⁰ svāhā |⁹¹¹ sidhyantu⁹¹² mantrapadā daṃ⁹¹³ svāhā |⁹¹⁴ bharato vicita⁹¹⁵ brahmānumanyatu⁹¹⁶ svāhā |⁹¹⁷
Then⁹¹⁸ the great goddess Sarasvatī bowed down to the Bhagavat’s feet and said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, any bhikṣu, bhikṣuṇī, upāsaka, or upāsikā who acquires, possesses, reads, recites, writes out, and practices⁹¹⁹ the teaching of this sublime king of sūtras, and wherever that bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī dwells—a town, a town’s environs, a wilderness, a mountain, or a forest—for their sake I and my entourage will come to them as a divine entourage,⁹²⁰ will guard and defend them, and will dispel the suffering of illness, the falling of shooting stars, bad omens, diseases, fighting, and quarreling. I will put an end to being arrested by the king’s law, bad dreams, harm from malicious spirits, and all conjured spirits.⁹²¹
“The followers and the audiences of individuals, such as bhikṣus, who possess the sūtra will be benefited so that they will quickly transcend the great ocean of saṃsāra and progress irreversibly toward enlightenment.”
The Bhagavat, having listened to her words, then praised the great goddess Sarasvatī, saying, “It is excellent, excellent that you, goddess, in order to benefit and make happy countless, endless beings, have taught those vidyāmantras, the washing in perfumed water, and the maṇḍala rite that possess inconceivable ripened results.”