Incense of the Snow Mountains and the Heavens
Utpala-Flower's own catalogue rises now — from an incense in the Snow Mountains that grants freedom from defilement, through the rākṣasa realm, and into heaven after heaven of the desire realm, each rung answered by its own singular fragrance and its own singular effect.
From the Snow Mountains to a Cakravartin's Own Throne
The catalogue's next two incenses move from a mountain fragrance that grants outright freedom from defilement to a rākṣasa-realm incense reserved for a single figure alone — a cakravartin king, lifted bodily into the sky along with his entire army.
善男子！雪山有香，名：阿盧那；若有眾生嗅此香者，其心決定離諸染著，我為說法莫不皆得離垢三昧。善男子！羅剎界中有香，名：海藏，其香但為轉輪王用；若燒一丸而以熏之，王及四軍皆騰虛空。
Good son, in the Snow Mountains there is an incense named Aruṇa; if any being smells this incense, their mind resolutely leaves behind every defilement and attachment, and when I teach them the dharma, there is not one who fails to attain the samādhi of freedom from defilement. Good son, within the realm of the rākṣasas there is an incense named Sea-Treasury, whose use is reserved only for a cakravartin king; if a single pellet is burned to perfume him, the king and his fourfold army all rise up into the open sky.
Four Heavens, Four Fragrances
The catalogue climbs rung by rung through the desire heavens — an incense that turns every deva's mind toward the buddha, one that gathers an entire heavenly host to hear the dharma, one that rains offerings across the whole dharma-realm, and one that simply rains down ornaments for seven days.
善男子！善法天中有香，名：淨莊嚴；若燒一丸而以熏之，普使諸天心念於佛。善男子！須夜摩天有香，名：淨藏；若燒一丸而以熏之，夜摩天眾莫不雲集彼天王所而共聽法。善男子！兜率天中有香，名：先陀婆；於一生所繫菩薩座前燒其一丸，興大香雲遍覆法界，普雨一切諸供養具，供養一切諸佛菩薩。善男子！善變化天有香，名曰：奪意；若燒一丸，於七日中，普雨一切諸莊嚴具。
Good son, in the heaven of Sudharma there is an incense named Pure Adornment; if a single pellet is burned to perfume it, it universally causes every deva's mind to be mindful of the buddha. Good son, in the Suyāma heaven there is an incense named Pure Treasury; if a single pellet is burned to perfume it, the entire host of the Yāma heaven, without exception, gathers like clouds before their heavenly king to listen together to the dharma. Good son, in the Tuṣita heaven there is an incense named Saindhava; when a single pellet of it is burned before the throne of a bodhisattva bound to one more life, it raises a great cloud of fragrance covering the entire dharma-realm, universally raining down every kind of offering, making offerings to every buddha and bodhisattva. Good son, in the Nirmāṇarati heaven there is an incense named Mind-Captivating; if a single pellet is burned, for seven days it universally rains down every kind of ornament.
先陀婆 — Saindhava. This word is famous elsewhere in Buddhist literature for its deliberate ambiguity — a single term that can mean salt, water, a vessel, or a horse, depending entirely on context, used to illustrate a skilled attendant's own discernment. Here it names an incense instead, though the same word's layered history lingers behind it.
Part 1045 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-seven. Part 1046 follows Utpala-Flower's own confession of limitation, before he names a twenty-third teacher, a ship's navigator, in the city called Tower.