大毘盧遮那成佛經疏 9.4

9.4

At this time, the Bodhisattva had reached the very bottom of austerities and knew they were devoid of benefit. After receiving the milk-rice from the cowherdess, he bathed in the river and his marks and signs became fully complete. At that time, as he approached closer to the Buddha way, there were boundless auspicious omens of blue sparrows, as explained at length in the *Lalitavistara* (*Benxing jing*). This bird is properly called the *śāsa*, resembling a blue sparrow but smaller, what the local populace calls an 'immortal's bird'. After bathing, the Bodhisattva contemplated the original tranquility of all phenomena, his mind clearly seeing the great path of bodhi, and gave rise to an extraordinary thought, knowing of himself that he would surely be able with great power to crush all states of existence. At that time, boundless and limitless auspicious events again arose in the world. You now, also within the secret womb, discard the various fruitless austerities of the ninety-five non-Buddhist paths that exhaust body and spirit, consume the single-flavor milk-rice of the syllable A, augment your eternal life and physical power, bathe your body in the water of the pure Dharma, clearly recognize the great path of the mind-king, and are about to proceed to the seat of awakening where Vairocana sits; hence it says, 'you now obtain a celebration identical to that'.