A Master of Every Incense
Utpala-Flower's own answer opens with the full scope of his mastery — every kind of incense belonging to every being from devas to humans, and incenses whose function ranges from curing disease to marking the bodhisattva grounds themselves.
Every Kind of Incense, Every Being's Own
Utpala-Flower's own claim begins with the basic categories of incense before widening to every being capable of producing or using one — devas, nāgas, yakṣas, and every other kind of being down to humans themselves.
長者告言：「善哉！善哉！善男子！汝乃能發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。「善男子！我善別知一切諸香，亦知調合一切香法，所謂：一切香、一切燒香、一切塗香、一切末香。亦知如是一切香王所出之處，又善了知天香、龍香、夜叉香，乾闥婆、阿脩羅、迦樓羅、緊那羅、摩睺羅伽、人、非人等所有諸香。
The elder said: "Excellent! Excellent! Good son, you have indeed been able to give rise to the mind of anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Good son, I skillfully distinguish and know every kind of incense, and I also know how to blend every method of incense, namely: every incense, every burning incense, every anointing incense, and every powdered incense. I also know the places from which every king of incense such as these emerges, and I also skillfully understand every kind of incense belonging to devas, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kiṃnaras, mahoragas, humans, and non-humans.
Incenses That Cure, Incenses That Mark the Path
The elder's own catalogue then turns from origin to function — incenses that heal disease and cast off arrogance sit beside incenses reserved for the noble ones and for the bodhisattva grounds themselves, a full range from the ordinary to the exalted.
又善別知治諸病香、斷諸惡香、生歡喜香、增煩惱香、滅煩惱香、令於有為生樂著香、令於有為生厭離香、捨諸憍逸香、發心念佛香、證解法門香、聖所受用香、一切菩薩差別香、一切菩薩地位香，如是等香形相生起、出現成就、清淨安隱、方便境界、威德業用及以根本，如是一切我皆了達。
I also skillfully distinguish incense that cures every disease, incense that cuts off every evil, incense that gives rise to joy, incense that increases affliction, incense that extinguishes affliction, incense that causes attachment to conditioned existence to arise, incense that causes aversion to conditioned existence to arise, incense that casts off every arrogance and indulgence, incense that gives rise to mindfulness of the buddha, incense that realizes understanding of the dharma-gate, incense enjoyed by the noble ones, every kind of distinguishing incense of the bodhisattvas, and every incense of the bodhisattva grounds, and as for the arising of the form and mark of incenses such as these, their manifestation and accomplishment, their purity and peace, their skillful-means domain, their majestic function, and their very root — all of this I have thoroughly mastered.
增煩惱香、滅煩惱香 — incense that increases affliction, incense that extinguishes affliction. Utpala-Flower's own catalogue is unusual for including opposites side by side without comment — an incense that increases affliction is named in the same breath as its cure, suggesting a mastery complete enough to encompass harm as well as healing.
Part 1043 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-seven. Part 1044 turns to the elder's own catalogue of named incenses one by one, beginning with a fragrance called Elephant-Treasury, born from a battle between nāgas, whose smoke turns an entire capital to gold.