Then the Lord Kamaladala-vimalanakshatra-rajasankusumitabhijña, the Tathagata, &c., said to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara: On coming to the Saha-world, young man of good family, thou must not conceive a low opinion of it. That world, young man of good family, has ups and downs, consists of earth, is replete with mountains of Kala, filled with gutters. The Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., is short of stature, and so are the Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas, whereas thou, young man of good family, hast got a body forty-two hundred thousand yojanas high, and myself have got a body sixty-eight hundred thousand yojanas high. And, young man of good family, thou art lovely, handsome, of pleasant appearance, endowed with a full bloom of extremely fine colour, and abundantly blest with hundred thousands of holy signs. Therefore then, young man of good family, when you have come to the Saha-world, do not conceive a low opinion of the Tathagata, nor of the Bodhisattvas, nor of that Buddha-field.
Thus addressed, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara said to the Lord Kamaladala-vimalanakshatra-rajasankusumitabhijña, the Tathagata, &c.: I shall do, Lord, as the Lord commands; I shall go to that Saha-world by virtue of the Lord's resolution, of the Lord's power, of the Lord's might, of the Lord's disposal, of the Lord's foresight. Whereon the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara, without leaving that Buddha-field and without leaving his seat, plunged into so deep a meditation that immediately after, on a sudden, there appeared before the Tathagata on the Gridhrakuta-mountains in the Saha-world eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of kotis of lotuses on gold stalks with silver leaves and with cups of the hue of rosy lotuses and Butea Frondosa.
Thus addressed, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara said to the Lord Kamaladala-vimalanakshatra-rajasankusumitabhijña, the Tathagata, &c.: I shall do, Lord, as the Lord commands; I shall go to that Saha-world by virtue of the Lord's resolution, of the Lord's power, of the Lord's might, of the Lord's disposal, of the Lord's foresight. Whereon the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara, without leaving that Buddha-field and without leaving his seat, plunged into so deep a meditation that immediately after, on a sudden, there appeared before the Tathagata on the Gridhrakuta-mountains in the Saha-world eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of kotis of lotuses on gold stalks with silver leaves and with cups of the hue of rosy lotuses and Butea Frondosa.
On seeing the appearance of this mass of lotuses the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Mañjuśrī, the prince royal, asked the Lord Śākyamuni, the Tathāgata, &c.: By what cause and by whom, O Lord, have been produced these eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of koṭis of lotuses on gold stalks with silver leaves and with cups of the hue of rosy lotuses and Butea Frondosa? Whereon the Lord replied to Mañjuśrī, the prince royal: It is, Mañjuśrī, the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Gadgadasvara, who accompanied and attended by eighty-four hundred thousand myriads of koṭis of Bodhisattvas arrives from the east, from the world Vairocanaraśmipratimaṇḍita, the Buddhafield of the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakṣatrarājasaṅkusumitābhijña, the Tathāgata, &c., at this Saha-world to see, salute, wait upon me, and to hear this Dharmaparyāya of the Lotus of the True Law.
Then Mañjuśrī, the prince royal, said to the Lord: What mass of roots of goodness, O Lord, has that young man of good family collected, that he has deserved to obtain such a distinction? And what meditation is it, O Lord, that the Bodhisattva practises? Let us also learn that meditation, O Lord, and practise that meditation. And let us see that Bodhisattva, Lord; see how the colour, outward shape, character, figure, and behaviour of that Bodhisattva is. May the Lord deign to produce such a token that the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva be admonished by it to come to this Saha-world.
Then Mañjuśrī, the prince royal, said to the Lord: What mass of roots of goodness, O Lord, has that young man of good family collected, that he has deserved to obtain such a distinction? And what meditation is it, O Lord, that the Bodhisattva practises? Let us also learn that meditation, O Lord, and practise that meditation. And let us see that Bodhisattva, Lord; see how the colour, outward shape, character, figure, and behaviour of that Bodhisattva is. May the Lord deign to produce such a token that the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva be admonished by it to come to this Saha-world.
All the Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas have obtained the meditation termed Sarvarupasandarsana.
And while this relation of the going and coming of the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara was being delivered, forty-two thousand Bodhisattvas acquired the faculty of acquiescence in future things, and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Padmaśrī acquired the meditation called the Lotus of the True Law.
And while this relation of the going and coming of the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Gadgadasvara was being delivered, forty-two thousand Bodhisattvas acquired the faculty of acquiescence in future things, and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Padmaśrī acquired the meditation called the Lotus of the True Law.