འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་རྩ་བའ་རྒྱད 307

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In all the rites that have been taught—
He is thus acclaimed
In this supreme king of manuals.¹⁹⁷⁰

“Whatever¹⁹⁷¹ practical skills and branches of knowledge
Are recognized in the world,
Such as the omens taught in the art of prognostication
And interpreted based on the knowledge of astrology;
Whatever types of behavior are taught in the art of prognostication,
Or auspicious and inauspicious sounds;

“Whatever voices there are of whatever creatures
That betoken their thoughts and behavior;
Whatever elements, sense bases, substances,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¹⁹⁷²;

“Whatever so-called portents or signs,
Techniques ( kriyā ) of mining minerals,
Algebra, grammar, sciences,
Armaments, and ritual procedures;

“Whatever knowledge of one’s inner being, medicine,
And the welfare and happiness of all beings;
Whatever art of logical argument (hetunīti) and other skills;
Whatever established science of linguistics;

“And whatever prosody, music, and the art of making perfumes there are—
Whatever of these have been enumerated,
I, the bodhisattva, have taught them
In order to benefit sentient beings.

“In former times, I, the bodhisattva,
Knowing that they benefit beings,
Taught them to the inhabitants
Of the ocean of saṃsāra.

“Living for a long time
In the dense forests of saṃsāra,
I act in the way that
Brings beings to maturity.

“I work for the benefit of beings,
Creating for them stores of merit
In every way that good karma
Can be accumulated.

“Established in various activities,
Beings obtain [corresponding] types of birth.
I perform various activities
For those limited by birth who have various needs.¹⁹⁷³

“Beings engage in various activities,
Serving the different aims described in the śāstras.
I fulfill these [aims] for them,
Assuming various excellent forms.

“I thus assume different guises,
Using different bodies, be they my own or not.¹⁹⁷⁴
Motivated by [the wish] to benefit beings,
I created different forms.

“I created, in the past, [the forms of]
Maheśvara, Śakra, Brahmā, and others;
Viṣṇu, Dhanada, and Nairṛta;