མཆོད་པར་བགྱིས་པས་ནི། འདས་པ་དང་། མ་བྱོན་པ་དང་། ད་ལྟར་བྱུང་བའི་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་རིམ་གྲོར་བགྱིས་པ་དང་། བཀུར་སྟིར་བགྱིས་པ་དང་། ཕུ་དུད་དུ་བགྱིས་པ་དང་། མཆོད་པར་བགྱིས་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །
“If, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the eastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the southern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the western direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the northern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the intermediate northeastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have honored, venerated, respected, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the intermediate southeastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the intermediate southwestern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the intermediate northwestern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the direction below, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments; and if, from as many beings as there are in the world systems of the direction above, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, each among them were to have made stūpas of the seven precious materials, about one yojana in height and half a yojana in width, in order to worship a tathāgata who had passed into nirvāṇa, and to have served, respected, honored, and worshiped them for an eon or for longer than an eon with divine flowers, divine garlands, divine perfumes, divine unguents, divine powders, divine outer robes, divine inner robes, divine parasols, divine victory banners, divine flags, and various divine musical instruments––do you think, Blessed Lord, the merit of those sons or daughters of good families for that reason would have increased greatly?”
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda