འཕགས་པ་མར་མ་མཛད་ཀྱས་ལང་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9

9

“The brahmin boy Megha gradually descended from the king of mountains, Himālaya, and entered the villages, cities, provinces, countries, and royal cities. At that time, in the great city Gone to Bliss,²⁵ there dwelled a brahmin known as Suviśākha.²⁶ He had a daughter called Receiver of Goodness, who was shapely, beautiful, pleasant to behold, and provided with a supremely rich and fine complexion. Every day, for her sake, he had food given to forty thousand brahmins, thinking, ‘I will give my daughter to whomever is especially exalted among them.’

“One of the gods from the Śuddhāvāsa realm showed the brahmin boy Megha the path to the great city Gone to Bliss. The brahmin boy Megha arrived at the site of the offering, and as soon as the brahmin boy Megha reached the site of the offering, the girl said to her parents, ‘Father, if the qualities of this one are indeed as they seem, may he become my husband.’

“The brahmin boy Megha then engaged in conversation with all the other brahmins, and among them the brahmin Megha was superior in the treatises and secret mantras. At that time, at the site of the offering, there was a brahmin known as Giver of Pieces, who performed offerings sitting among the elders. The brahmin boy Megha went to where the brahmin Giver of Pieces was. There he engaged in conversation about the Vedas and mantras with the brahmin Giver of Pieces, and it turned out that Megha was superior in the Vedas, secret mantras, and treatises.

“The brahmin boy Megha then said to the brahmin Giver of Pieces, ‘O brahmin, the law among us brahmins is that whoever has understood and mastered the treatises should sit on the best seat.’

“Then the brahmin boy Megha again spoke to the brahmin Giver of Pieces: ‘Great brahmin, I will sit here,