de ltar de las rmad du byuṅ ba daṅ | dpag tu med pa (7) daṅ | bsam gyis mi khyab pa’i bsod nams kyi che ba’i bdag ñid thob pas srog chags brgya stoṅ bye ba dpag tu med pa mchog tu dad pas brlan pa’i sems kyi rgyud daṅ | bcom ldan ’das kyi bstan pa la bsñen bkur bya ba la rgyab kyis phyogs pa rnams kyaṅ sbyin pa ni (204a1) gtoṅ bsod nams dag ni byed ciṅ smon lam ’debs par gyur to ||
de nas tshe daṅ ldan pa gser mdog gis skye bo’i tshogs maṅ po de ltar rnam pa du mar bsod nams la gus pa bskyed par bya ba’i phyir bsod nams kyi bdag ñid che ba rab tu bśad nas |
[72] Having heard from him that very wonderful, unlimited and inconceivable greatness of the meritorious act, many hundreds of thousands of crores of beings, even those who were averse to the teaching of the Fortunate One, their thoughts overcome by the surge of extreme faith, according to their wishes gave alms, performed acts of merit and made vows.
Then, the venerable Suvarṇavarṇa, having thus in many ways declared to that great mass of people the greatness of the act of merit in order to produce respect for acts of merit,
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