At that time, when the Tathāgata Śākyamuni gave this Dharma teaching, countless hundreds of thousands of quintillions of bodhisattvas from world realms in the ten directions each came individually from their own world realms to Vulture Peak Mountain. When they arrived before the Bhagavat, they touched the ground with the five points of their body, and, having paid homage to the Bhagavat, with one-pointed minds and palms together, in one voice they praised him with these verses:

“Bhagavat, you have a perfect body the color of gold. You shine with light rays like a mountain of gold. You are pure and smooth like an excellent lotus. You have an array of countless sublime, supreme signs.

“You are adorned by the thirty-two signs. Your eighty excellent features are complete. You shine with light rays, beyond any analogy. You are stainless like a pure full moon.

“You have a perfect and wonderful voice; It roars with the sound of thunder, like a lion. It has the eight sublime aspects and accords with the senses, And it is superior to all the songs of the kalaviṅka.

“Your body is adorned by the signs of a hundred merits, With a perfection of light rays, completely free of stain. Your mind’s wisdom is completely clear and is like an ocean. You have vast qualities that are as extensive as pure space.

“Your light rays completely fill the worlds in the ten directions. You liberate beings in accordance with their circumstances. You completely dispel the propensities for kleśas and craving. You are a continuous eternal lamp of the Dharma.

“With compassion you bring benefit to beings And bestow happiness in the present and future. You constantly teach sublime, supreme meanings And bring others to the true detachment of nirvāṇa.

“Bhagavat, you teach the supreme Dharma that is amṛta. You bestow the meaning of the wonderful amṛta. You lead beings to the city of amṛta. You create a gathering of amṛta and bring them to happiness.

“You liberate all beings from suffering, Constantly saving them from the ocean of perpetual saṃsāra. You lead them onto the path to happiness And bestow on them the inconceivable happiness they wish for.

“Bhagavat, the ocean of your qualities is vast and deep And cannot be known even through numerous analogies. Because you constantly look on all with great compassion, You have continuous methods, wisdom, and diligence.

“Bhagavat, there is no end to your ocean of qualities. Even if all humans and devas were to calculate it Together for a million million eons, They would still not know a fraction of it.

“We have recited a praise of just a few drops From the ocean of your qualities of buddhahood. We completely dedicate that merit to beings, Praying that they will all quickly attain the result of buddhahood.”

Then the Bhagavat said to those bodhisattvas, “Well done! Well done! Through your praising the qualities of the Tathāgata in that way, you have benefited beings and caused buddha activities to increase, so that you have been purified of bad karma and have developed unquantifiable merit.”