Śakra

Meanwhile, the ruler who persecutes him will be beset by rebellion, and his subjects will devour each others like hungry spirits.

Finally, the land will be attacked by a foreign country, for Brahma, Sakra, the gods of sun and moon, and the Four Heavenly Kings have ordained that other countries shall assault a land that is hostile to the Lotus Sutra.

None of you declare yourself to be my disciples should ever give way to cover this.

Neither should you allow concern for your parents, wife, or children to hold you back, or be worried about your property.

If you ignore this advice and punish me unreasonably on their behalf, the entire country will have cause to regret your decision.

If you condemn me, you will be rejecting the Buddhas and Void.

Then you will have to face the punishment of Brahma and Sakra, of the gods of the sun and moon, and of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Within 100 days after my exile or execution, or within one, three, or seven years, there will occur what is called the calamity of internal strife, rebellion within the ruling clan.

But it is not till after omens have appeared that they beseech him.

At the time, therefore, having all come together in one world, with the Satumarjas, and with the Sakka, the Summa, the Santusita, the Paranimmita-vasavatti, and the Maha, or of a Brahma, or of a universal monarch, that you fulfilled the ten perfections.

But it was to gain omniscience in order to save the world, that you fulfilled them.

Sir, the time and fit season for your Buddhahood has now arrived.' But the great being, before assenting to their wish, made what is called the five great observations.

While the milk rice was cooking, immense bubbles arose, and turning to the right, went round together, but not a single drop ran over the edge, and not a particle of smoke went up from the fireplace.

On this occasion, the four guardian angels were present, and stood guard over the fireplace.

Mahabrahma bore aloft the canopy of state, and Sakka raked the firebrands together and made the fire blaze up brightly.

And just as a man crushes honey out of a honeycomb that has formed around a stick, so the deities by their superhuman power collected an amount of vital sap sufficient for the sustenance of the gods and men of all the four great continents and their two thousand attendant isles, and infused it into the milk rice.