金光明最勝王經疏 5.83

5.83

The sūtra states: At that time, the Four Heavenly Kings addressed the Buddha, saying: 'World-Honoured One! If, in future ages, there is a human king who delights in listening to such a Golden Light Sūtra, wishing to protect his own person, queens, princes, and even the court ladies of the inner palace, as well as the cities, villages, and palace halls, so that all attain the foremost, inconceivable, supreme joy and tranquil peace; and wishing that in the present life his royal throne be exalted, sovereign, prosperous, and ever-increasing; and furthermore wishing to gather an immeasurable, boundless, and inconceivable accumulation of merit, causing his own nation to be free of hostile enemies, all worries, afflictions, calamities, and misfortunes—'