ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ནི། བླ་ན་མྱེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་བོ། །
“Kauśika, so it is that the merit accrued earlier would come nowhere near even a hundredth part of the merit accrued if sons or daughters of good families commit this perfection of wisdom to writing, make it into a book, take it up, uphold it, recite it, master it, and focus their attention correctly on it, and serve, respect, honor, and worship it with flowers, garlands, perfumes, unguents, powders, robes, parasols, victory banners, flags, and various musical instruments.