仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經 2.6

2.6

"Great King! Formerly, the king of the realm of Aśmaka had a crown prince named Kalmāṣapāda. When he ascended the royal throne, there was a non-Buddhist master named Sudatta who conferred abhiṣeka on the king and caused Kalmāṣapāda to take the heads of one thousand kings to sacrifice in the charnel ground to the great spirit Mahākāla. From the time he ascended the royal throne, he had already obtained nine hundred and ninety-nine kings, lacking only one king. Traveling ten thousand li to the north, he then captured a king named Samantaprabhāsa. That King Samantaprabhāsa addressed Kalmāṣapāda, saying: 'I pray you permit me one day to pay homage to the Three Jewels and provide meals to the śramaṇas.' Having heard this, Kalmāṣapāda immediately consented. That king then relied on the teaching spoken by the past Buddhas: he arranged one hundred high seats and invited one hundred Dharma masters to expound eight hundred billion verses of Prajñāpāramitā twice a day for one day. At that time, the foremost Dharma master in that assembly spoke a verse for King Samantaprabhāsa: