འཕགས་པ་མར་མ་མཛད་ཀྱས་ལང་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.6

intro.6

On the way back, Megha’s course is diverted by one of the gods from the Śuddhāvāsa realm so that he arrives instead at Ajātaśatru’s capital Padmāvatī, which has been cleaned and decorated in honor of Dīpaṅkara’s imminent arrival. As soon as Megha hears of the newly awakened Dīpaṅkara, he looks for flowers with which to make an offering to the Buddha. However, since King Ajātaśatru has decreed that all flowers are to be offered to the Buddha and that no one has permission to buy or sell them, Megha fails to find a single flower anywhere. Meanwhile, the girl Receiver of Goodness has begged seven flowers from a garland maker, and with them she approaches Megha.