法苑珠林 30.45

30.45

又大集經云。爾時世尊以震旦國付囑毘首羯磨天子五千眷屬。迦毘羅夜叉大將五千眷屬。乃至雙瞳目大天女十七大將各領五千眷屬。汝等賢首皆共護持震旦國土。於彼所有一切觸惱鬪諍怨讎忿競言訟兩陣交戰飢饉疫病非時風雨氷寒毒熱。悉令休息。遮障不善諸惡眾生。瞋恚麁獷苦辛惱觸無味等物。悉令休息。令我法眼得久住故。紹三寶種不斷絕故。

Furthermore, the Mahāsaṃnipāta-sūtra states: At that time, the World-Honoured One entrusted the land of Cīnasthāna to the Devaputra Viśvakarman and his retinue of five thousand; the great yakṣa general Kapila and his retinue of five thousand; down to the great devī of Double-Pupiled Eyes and seventeen great generals, each leading a retinue of five thousand: "Virtuous leaders, you must jointly protect and maintain the land of Cīnasthāna. There, all afflictions, contentions, enmities, wrathful rivalries, litigations, clashes between two battle lines, famines, pestilences, unseasonal winds and rains, icy cold, and virulent heat—cause them all to cease. Bar and obstruct unwholesome and evil sentient beings, and cause anger, coarseness, bitterness, afflictive contact, tastelessness, and such things all to cease, so that my Eye of Dharma may long endure, and so that the lineage of the Three Jewels may continue without interruption."