法苑珠林 30.45

30.45

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."