Every One of Them Desires Me
The dream of the buddha has calmed the maiden's fear entirely, and she speaks for herself for the first time — first describing her own untouched beauty, then praising the prince mark by mark, and finally asking him outright to accept her, whatever her mother has said.
Every One of Them Desires Me
Ten stanzas move from the maiden's own untouched beauty to a mark-by-mark praise of the prince, ending in a direct plea he has not yet answered.
時，妙德童女夢覩如來故，聞佛功德故，其心安隱，無有怖畏，於太子前而說頌言：「『我身最端正，
名聞遍十方，
智慧無等倫，
善達諸工巧。
無量百千眾，
見我皆貪染；
我心不於彼，
而生少愛欲。
無瞋亦無恨，
無嫌亦無喜，
但發廣大心，
利益諸眾生。
我今見太子，
具諸功德相，
其心大欣慶，
諸根咸悅樂。
色如光明寶，
髮美而右旋，
額廣眉纖曲，
我心願事汝。
我觀太子身，
譬若真金像，
亦如大寶山，
相好有光明。
目廣紺青色，
月面師子頰，
喜顏美妙音，
願垂哀納我！
舌相廣長妙，
猶如赤銅色；
梵音緊那聲，
聞者皆歡喜。
口方不褰縮，
齒白悉齊密，
發言現笑時，
見者心歡喜。
離垢清淨身，
具相三十二，
必當於此界，
而作轉輪位。』
At that time, the maiden Wondrous Virtue, because she had dreamed of seeing the buddha, and because she had heard of his merit, her mind grew calm and at ease, without any fear, and she spoke in verse before the prince, saying: "My own body is supremely upright and fine,
my renown reaching throughout the ten directions;
my wisdom has no equal,
and I am skilled and accomplished in every craft.
Measureless hundreds of thousands throng to see me,
and every one of them is filled with desire;
yet my own heart, toward any of them,
has never given rise to the slightest love or lust.
I have no anger and no resentment,
no aversion and no delight;
I have only given rise to a vast and expansive mind,
to bring benefit to every being.
Now, seeing the prince,
endowed with every mark of merit,
my heart is filled with great joy,
and every one of my faculties rejoices.
Your form is like a radiant jewel,
your hair beautiful and curling to the right;
your forehead broad, your brows slender and arched —
my heart wishes to serve you.
I behold the prince's own body,
just like an image of true gold,
and also like a great mountain of jewels,
its excellent marks shining with light.
Your eyes are broad and deep indigo-blue,
your face like the moon, your cheeks like a lion's;
your countenance joyful, your voice wondrous —
I beg you, in your compassion, to accept me!
The mark of your tongue is broad, long, and wondrous,
just the colour of red copper;
your Brahmā-voice, your kiṃnara-like tone —
all who hear it rejoice.
Your mouth is square, neither drawn in nor puckered;
your teeth are white, every one even and close-set;
when you speak, and when you smile,
all who see it are filled with joy in their hearts.
Your body, free of stain and pure,
is endowed with all thirty-two marks;
you shall surely, within this world,
take the throne of a wheel-turning king."
具相三十二 — endowed with all thirty-two marks. The maiden's own hymn names the exact number the marks catalogued back in Part 1208 belong to — the classical thirty-two marks of a great man — confirming in verse what her mother had already read in his body in prose: that this is no ordinary prince, but one marked from birth for the throne of a wheel-turning king.
Part 1212 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-five. Part 1213 gives the prince his own reply — a question asking who she is, and to whom she belongs.