佛祖統紀 47.4

47.4

建炎元年。上駐蹕維揚○初隆祐太后孟氏。將去國南嚮求護身法於道場大德。有教以奉摩利支天母者。及定都吳門念天母冥護之德。乃以天母像奉安於西湖中天竺。刻石以紀事。案不空三藏譯摩利支天經念誦法云。南無釋迦牟尼佛（十聲）南無摩利支天菩薩（十聲）我弟子（某甲）歸命三寶摩利支天菩薩。願護我身無人能見我。無人能知我。無人能捉縛加害我。無人能欺誑責罰我。無人能債我財物。不為怨家能得其便。即說最上心真言曰。唵摩利支娑縛賀（或百聲或千聲）王難中護我。賊難中護我。失道曠野中護我。水火刀兵中護我。鬼神毒藥難中護我。惡獸毒蟲難中護我。一切怨家惡人難中護我。佛實語護我。法實語護我。僧實語護我。天實語護我。仙實語護我。一切處一切時願常護我。弟子（某甲）娑縛賀。誦時想菩薩作天女形。瓔珞莊嚴坐蓮華上。左手執天扇。右手垂掌向外。作與願勢。若欲見天真身求勝願者。誦滿十萬遍佛言。此天常行日月前。日月所不能見。我因知此天名得免一切厄難。

In the first year of the Jianyan era, the Emperor halted his cortege at Weiyang. Earlier, when the Empress Dowager Longyou, née Meng, was about to leave the capital for the south, she sought a method for bodily protection from a venerable monk at the bodhimaṇḍa. Someone instructed her to venerate Mother Mārīcī. When the capital was settled at Wumen, recalling Mother Mārīcī's virtue of unseen protection, she enshrined an image of the goddess at the Central Tianzhu Monastery by West Lake and carved a stone inscription to record the matter. Now, according to the Mārīcī-devī Dhāraṇī Recitation Method translated by Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra: 'Homage to Śākyamuni Buddha (ten times). Homage to Mārīcī Bodhisattva (ten times). I, your disciple [name], take refuge in the Three Jewels and Mārīcī Bodhisattva. May you protect my body so that no one can see me, no one can know me, no one can seize, bind, or harm me, no one can deceive or penalize me, and no one can take my possessions on debt; may no adversary find an opportunity against me.' Then recite the Supreme Mind Dhāraṇī: 'Oṃ mārīcī svāhā' (either one hundred times or one thousand times). 'Protect me amid perils of the state; protect me amid perils of bandits; protect me amid lost ways in the wilderness; protect me amid water, fire, and weapons; protect me amid perils of ghosts, spirits, and poisons; protect me amid fierce beasts and venomous insects; protect me amid all adversaries and evil people. May the Buddha's true words protect me! May the Dharma's true words protect me! May the Saṅgha's true words protect me! May the gods' true words protect me! May the ṛṣis' true words protect me! In all places and at all times, may you always protect me. For your disciple [name], svāhā.' When reciting, visualize the Bodhisattva taking the form of a heavenly maiden, adorned with necklaces, seated upon a lotus flower, her left hand holding a celestial fan, her right hand lowered with the palm facing outward in the gesture of granting wishes. If one wishes to behold the true body of the goddess to seek supreme wishes, recite it a full one hundred thousand times. The Buddha said: 'This goddess constantly walks before the sun and the moon, unseen by the sun and the moon. Because I know this goddess's name, I am able to avoid all perils and calamities.'