維摩義記 1.45

1.45

Next, the four lines below are the fourth section, restating the previous events in verse. "Now we offer the World-Honoured One this slight canopy": this versifies the previous act of presenting the canopy. "Within which is manifested our trichiliocosm": this versifies how it completely covered the trichiliocosm and revealed its entire expanse. "The palaces inhabited by the devas, nāgas, and spirits" and so forth: this versifies how the heavenly palaces and palaces of the nāgas, spirits, and so forth were all manifested within the canopy. "All that exists in the world is fully manifested": this versifies Mount Sumeru, the Iron Encircling Mountains, and so forth from before. "The Ten Powers in pity manifested these transformations": this versifies gratitude for the Buddha's kindness. The Buddha is endowed with the ten powers; addressing him by his virtue, he is named the Ten Powers; it was because the Honored One of the Ten Powers pitied us that he manifested these transformations. "The assembly, beholding what is rare, all praised the Buddha": this versifies the great assembly beholding the Buddha's supernatural powers and praising them as unprecedented. "Now I bow my head to the Honored One of the trichiliocosm": concluding with his own taking refuge and paying homage.