འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.8

9.8

Those and the other lords of devas,
Leading their own deva assemblies,

“Will make offerings to the buddhas,
And with minds that are always joyful,
They will render homage to the sūtra,
To this inconceivable jewel of the Dharma.

“These and many other devas
Will all gather together,
Look at those who accomplish merit,
And then they will say to one another:

“ ‘Regard these beings well!
They have great merit and qualities!
Through the power of their diligence in good roots,
They will be reborn with us in our paradises.

“ ‘With veneration they have gone there
To listen to this profound sūtra.
They make offerings to the stūpa of the Dharma
In order to pay homage to the true Dharma.

“ ‘They have compassion for all beings
And therefore create a great benefit for them,
Thus creating vessels for the Dharma jewel
That is comprised of these profound sūtras.

“ ‘Those who enter this Dharma gate
Will have entered into the nature of the Dharma.
They will listen with a one-pointed mind
To this Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light.

“ ‘As those individuals have made offerings
To countless hundreds of thousands of buddhas,
It is through the power of those good roots
That they are listening to this sūtra.

“ ‘In this way, the lords of devas,
And the goddess Sarasvatī,
And the goddess Śrī,
And the devas of the Four Mahārājas,¹⁰⁸⁴

“ ‘And countless retinues of yakṣas
Who have courage and miraculous powers
Will always come from each of the
Four directions and give protection.

“ ‘Sūrya, Soma, Śakra, the lord of devas,¹⁰⁸⁵
Vāyu, Varuṇa, and Agni,¹⁰⁸⁶
Viṣṇu, and Skanda,
And Yama and the goddess Sarasvatī,¹⁰⁸⁷

“ ‘The world guardians, and so on,
All those who have splendor and magnificence
Protect those who keep the sūtra,
And so are never apart from them day or night.¹⁰⁸⁸

“ ‘The mighty lords of the yakṣas,
Nārāyaṇa and Maheśvara,
Lord Saṃjñeya, and all the others;
The twenty-eight yakṣas;