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菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 2.16

菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 2.16

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Classical Chinese

2.16

「摩伽山所出,花香及栴檀,
三界所有香,不如戒香勝。
戒香滅眾垢,往來入無間;
菩薩不退轉,涅槃香第一。
譬如善射人,仰射於虛空;
箭勢不盡空,尋復墮于地;
德香遠無際,終不有轉還。
今說佛身香,戒、定、慧解度,
於億百千劫,不能盡佛香;
若於千萬劫,佛讚佛功德,
大聖不能盡,佛身戒德香。
諸佛威儀法,授前補處別,
口中五色香,上至忉利天;
還來至佛所,遶佛身七匝。
諸天散花香,稱歎未曾有;
定香遠流布,濟度阿僧祇。」

"The floral fragrances and candana
Produced on Mount Gandhamādana,
And all the fragrances across the three realms,
Are not as supreme as the fragrance of morality.
The fragrance of morality destroys all defilements,
Coming and going, penetrating even the Avīci [hell];
For a non-retrogressing bodhisattva,
The fragrance of nirvāṇa is foremost.
Like a skilled archer
Shooting upwards into empty space:
The force of the arrow not exhausting the void,
It quickly falls back down to earth;
Yet the fragrance of virtue extends endlessly far,
Never to turn back or return.
Now I speak of the fragrance of the Buddha's body—
Morality, samādhi, wisdom, and liberation:
Even through hundreds of thousands of koṭis of kalpas,
One could not exhaust the Buddha's fragrance.
Even if for thousands of myriads of kalpas,
A Buddha were to praise a Buddha's merits,
That Great Sage could not exhaust
The fragrance of moral virtue of the Buddha's body.
By the awe-inspiring Dharma of the Buddhas,
When conferring prophecy upon the one next in succession,
A five-coloured fragrance from his mouth
Ascends up to the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven;
Returning again to the Buddha's place,
It circumambulates the Buddha's body seven times.
All the devas scatter fragrant flowers,
Praising it as unprecedented;
The fragrance of samādhi spreads afar,
Delivering asaṃkhyeyas [of beings]."

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