陀羅尼雜集 4.36

4.36

At that time, Mahābrahmā again addressed the Buddha, saying: "World-Honoured One! If there are women who cannot bear sons or daughters, or whose children miscarry and abort in the womb, or whose lives are taken right after birth—should these women wish to seek offspring and secure long lives, they must constantly fix their mindfulness and cultivate wholesome dharmas. On the eighth day and fifteenth day of the month, they should receive and uphold the eight precepts, bathe purely, put on fresh clean garments, and pay homage to the Buddhas of the ten directions. At midnight, placing a few mustard seeds upon their heads, they should recite the dhāraṇī-mantra that I have spoken. This will cause such women to attain their wishes immediately; the children born to them will be secure and free from affliction, living out their full life span without dying prematurely. If any spirit does not comply with my mantra, I shall cause its head to split into seven pieces like the branches of an arjaka tree." He then spoke the dhāraṇī-mantra for protecting infants: