The seventeen sections (vastu) on monastic procedure 1.461

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tasya hradasya nātidūre puṣpaphalasampannaṃ nānāśakunimirnikūjitamāśramapadam | tatra ṛṣiḥ prativasati maitryātmakaḥ kāruṇikaḥ sattvavatsalaḥ | tato|sau lubdhakastasya ṛṣestriṣkālamupasaṃkramitumārabdhaḥ | yaccāsya janmacitreṇa nāgapotena sārdhaṃ vṛttaṃ tatsarvaṃ vistareṇa samākhyātam | tato'sāvṛṣiḥ kathayati | kiṃ ratnaiḥ kiṃ vā te suvarṇena tasya bhuvane amogho nāma pāśastiṣṭhati taṃ yācasveti | tato lubdhako'moghapāśe jātatṛṣṇaḥ ṛṣivacanamupaśrutya punarapi nāgabhuvanaṃ gato yāvatpaśyati nāgabhuvanadvāre tamamoghaṃ pāśam | tasyaitadabhavat | eṣa sa pāśo yo mayā prarthanīya iti viditvā nāgabhuvanaṃ praviṣṭaḥ | tato janmacitreṇa nāgapotenānyaiśca nāgapotaiḥ sasaṃbhramaṃ pratisaṃmodito ratnaiśca pravāritaḥ kathayati | alaṃ me ratnaiḥ kiṃ tvetadamoghaṃ pāśaṃ mamānuprayaccheti | janmacitraḥ kathayati | tavānena kiṃ prayojanam | asmākaṃ tu mahatprayojanam | yadā garuḍabhayopadrutā bhavāmastadānenātmānaṃ rakṣāmaḥ | lubdhakaḥ kathayati | yuṣmākameṣa garuḍabhayopadrutānāmupayogaṃ gacchati mama tvanena satatameva prayojanam | yadyasti kṛtamupakṛtaṃ vā prayaccheti | janmacitrasya nāgapotasyaitadabhavat | mamānena bahūpakṛtaṃ mātāpitarāvavalokya dadāmīti | tena mātā pitarāvavalokya sa pāśo dattaḥ | tato'sau lubdhakaḥ pṛthivīlabdhaprakhyena sukhasaumanasyenāpyāyitamanā amoghaṃ pāśamādāya nāgabhuvanādabhyudgamya svagṛhaṃ gataḥ |