Then the bodhisattva Ruciraketu rose from his seat and, with his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee with palms together and made this praise through these verses:

“Muni, you have the complete signs of a hundred merits. Your body is adorned by qualities beyond measure. Beings aspire to your vast purity. You shine with light like a thousand suns.

“You emit a vast light of infinite colors. You are beautified by signs like a mass of precious lotuses. You are like the sun shining in the sky, A bright white light that outshines the color of gold.

“You are like a mountain of gold, shining with a light That spreads throughout many hundreds of thousands of realms, Extinguishing the infinite sufferings of beings And bestowing endless, sublime happiness.

“You have the perfect, pure, beautiful physical signs So that beings never tire of gazing upon you. Your hair is perfectly soft and deep blue in color And resembles black bees massed upon a flower.

“You are adorned by delight and equanimity. You have a perfection of great love and compassion. You are beautified by the signs and features of a great being, Attained through the qualities of the aspects of enlightenment.

“Bhagavat, you bring beings great merit and benefit, So that they always attain great happiness. You are adorned by the various kinds of qualities, And your light illuminates a hundred thousand realms.

“Bhagavat, you have completely perfect light rays That are like the sun that fills the sky with light. Bhagavat, you are like Mount Sumeru, endowed with qualities, And you manifest everywhere in all ten directions.

“Bhagavat, your sublime, golden mouth is perfectly beautiful. Your full white teeth are the color of conches. Bhagavat, the moon does not compare to the beauty of your face, And between your eyebrows there are hairs always curled to the right.

“They are luminous, soft, bright, and white, resembling crystal, And like the full moon resting in the element of space.”

Then the Bhagavat said to the bodhisattva Ruciraketu, “This praise you have made of the qualities of a tathāgata is inconceivable and will be beneficial for all. Whoever learns it will be learning to meditate on the practice that accords with it.”