觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 2.60

2.60

At that time, within the walls, there were eight-coloured lapis lazuli channels. Each channel was formed jointly of fifty billion jewel beads. In each channel there was eight-flavored water, complete with all eight colours. The water surged upward, winding around the beams and rafters, and outside the four gates it manifested four flowers by transformation. The water came forth from within the flowers like a flow of jeweled blossoms. Upon each flower were twenty-four heavenly maidens, their physical appearance wondrously sublime like the adorned physical marks of bodhisattvas. In their hands, fifty billion jeweled vessels were spontaneously transformed, each vessel spontaneously brimming with heavenly amṛta. Upon their left shoulders they bore countless necklaces, and upon their right shoulders they moreover carried countless musical instruments; like clouds hovering in the sky, they came forth from the water, praising the Bodhisattva's great pāramitās.