The Lord said: “It is like this, Śāriputra, as if the world-spheres as numerous as the grains of sand in the river Gaṅgā (gaṅgānadīvālukopama) are filled with the atomic-sized dust of buddha-fields as numerous as the grains of sand in the river Gaṅgā, as if all the atomic-sized dust (paramāṇurajas) is put into a single dust grain of a field during many hundreds of thousands of aeons, in the same way of calculating and establishing distinguishing marks (gaṇanānimittapratiṣṭhāpana), even though all the dust would be exhausted, the thought of incomparable complete awakening (anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi), which was produced by the bodhisatva Gaganagañja, for the uncountable hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of ages (asaṃkhyeyakalpakoṭīniyutaśatasahasra), would never be exhausted (parikṣi-).”