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Thus, indeed, the bodhisattva giving noble thoroughbred elephants that are well-grounded in their seven limbs, sixty years of age, endowed with six tusks, lotus-hued, pure of mouth, adorned with gold, their bodies covered with golden nets, their trunks draped in arrays of various gem-studded ornaments, auspiciously golden, of noble and pleasing appearance; or giving noble thoroughbred horses endowed with comfortable gait and ease of body, possessed of continuous speed, endowed with speed of movement and stride in all four directions, possessed of stature, adorned with all ornaments resembling those of the divine, noble, and pleasing: giving them, relinquishing them with respect to elders, virtuous friends, and parents, to the poor, beggars, and mendicants, and giving with an unattached mind to all living beings who are recipients, not letting go with an grasping mind, with a mental continuum thoroughly pervaded by great compassion, entering into the bodhisattva qualities of boundless great renunciation, purifying the resolute intentions of a noble-born bodhisattva; up to: thus, indeed, the bodhisattva giving and relinquishing gifts of seats: royal seats of fortune, with feet of lapis lazuli, resting on lions, canopied with nets of gems and gold threads, provided and furnished with the touch of manifold robes, their service perfumed with all quintessential scents, with hoisted flags of various precious jewel-kings, arranged with ornaments of many hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas of jewels, spread with canopies of golden nets, possessing the delightful sound and reverberation produced by nets of golden tinkling bells, lofty seats, elevated, pleasing to the eyes, anointed for sitting in dominion over the great earth under a single parasol, dedicated to the supreme sovereignty over all kings, with unhindered rule and instruction by the wheel, fixed for sitting in dominion and sovereignty over all kingdoms; and so on up to: thus, indeed, the bodhisattva giving and relinquishing parasols, adorned with arrays of great gems, with jewel handles, covered with nets of bells, draped with necklaces of lapis lazuli gems hanging down from jewel-threaded ear and neck garlands, having the service of delightful sounds and festive shouts, with pure coverings inside golden nets, spread with hundreds of thousands of jewel-spoke ornaments, supported by jewel casings, with services fumigated and perfumed with hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas of the finest supreme fragrances of aloe and sandalwood, pure with the brilliance of Jāmbūnada gold; giving, relinquishing, letting go, and bestowing with an unconcerned mind parasols of such kind, with many hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas of ornaments, and others surpassing those, with immeasurable hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas of ornaments, to noble beings present before him, or for the adornment of the caityas of the Tathāgatas who have attained nirvāṇa, or to bodhisattva virtuous friends in search of the Dharma, or to noble-born bodhisattva preachers of the Dharma, or to parents, or to the Jewel of the Saṅgha, or to the entire teaching of the Buddha, up to all recipients—he dedicates that root of wholesome virtue in this way: