A Jewel-Woman Shall Appear
The seven treasures that confirm a wheel-turning king arrive of their own accord — and the fifth of them carries a name this story has been building toward since a mother's refusal, twelve Parts ago, called it impossible.
The Seven Treasures
What confirms a wheel-turning king is not a ceremony but an arrival — seven treasures, each with its own name, appearing of their own accord.
「爾時，太子於十五日在正殿上，采女圍遶，七寶自至——一者、輪寶，名：無礙行；二者、象寶，名：金剛身；三者、馬寶，名：迅疾風；四者、珠寶，名：日光藏；五者、女寶，名：具妙德；六、藏臣寶，名為：大財；七、主兵寶，名：離垢眼。——七寶具足，為轉輪王，王閻浮提，正法治世，人民快樂。王有千子，端正勇健，能伏怨敵。
At that time, on the fifteenth day, the prince, in his main hall, surrounded by court ladies, had the seven treasures arrive to him of their own accord — the first, the wheel-treasure, named Unobstructed Conduct; the second, the elephant-treasure, named Vajra Body; the third, the horse-treasure, named Swift Wind; the fourth, the pearl-treasure, named Sun-Light Treasury; the fifth, the woman-treasure, named Perfect Wondrous Virtue; the sixth, the treasurer-minister-treasure, named Great Wealth; and the seventh, the general-treasure, named Stainless Eye. With the seven treasures thus complete, he became a wheel-turning king, ruling over Jambudvīpa, governing the world with the true Dharma, so that the people lived in happiness. The king had a thousand sons, upright and courageous, able to subdue any enemy.
五者、女寶，名：具妙德 — the fifth, the woman-treasure, named Perfect Wondrous Virtue. Her own mother's refusal, back in Part 1210, named exactly this as the reason the match was impossible: "a jewel-woman shall appear for him, able to soar through the sky at will." Twelve Parts later, the impossible match completes itself — the maiden is not merely accepted, but arrives as one of the seven treasures a wheel-turning king cannot become a wheel-turning king without.
Eighty Royal Cities
The scale of the new king's realm is measured out one more time before the story turns to reveal who everyone in it has been all along.
其閻浮提中有八十王城，一一城中有五百僧坊，一一僧坊立佛支提，皆悉高廣，以眾妙寶而為校飾；一一王城皆請如來，以不思議眾妙供具而為供養。佛入城時，現大神力，令無量眾生種諸善根，無量眾生心得清淨，見佛歡喜，發菩提意，起大悲心，利益眾生，勤修佛法，入真實義，住於法性，了法平等，獲三世智，等觀三世，知一切佛出興次第，說種種法攝取眾生，發菩薩願，入菩薩道，知如來法，成就法海，能普現身遍一切剎，知眾生根及其性欲，令其發起一切智願。
Within that Jambudvīpa there were eighty royal cities, and within each and every city there were five hundred monasteries, and in each and every monastery a buddha-stūpa was erected, every one of them lofty and expansive, adorned throughout with every kind of wondrous jewel. And in each and every royal city, the tathāgata was invited, and was made offerings with inconceivable and every kind of wondrous offering-implement. Whenever the buddha entered a city, he manifested his own great spiritual power, causing measureless beings to plant every kind of wholesome root, and measureless beings to have their minds made pure. Seeing the buddha, they rejoiced, gave rise to the intent for bodhi, and gave rise to a mind of great compassion; they brought benefit to every being, diligently cultivated the buddha-dharma, entered the true and real meaning, abided in the nature of dharmas, and understood the equality of every dharma. They attained the wisdom of the three periods of time, and contemplated the three periods of time equally; they came to know the sequence in which every buddha appears in the world, expounded every kind of dharma to gather in every being, gave rise to the bodhisattva's own vows, and entered the bodhisattva path. They came to know the tathāgata's own Dharma, accomplished an ocean of Dharma, and were able to universally manifest their bodies throughout every land; they came to know the faculties and inclinations of every being, and caused them to give rise to the vow for all-knowing wisdom.
八十王城⋯一一城中有五百僧坊 — eighty royal cities⋯and within each and every city there were five hundred monasteries. Eighty cities, each with five hundred monasteries of its own, each monastery crowned with its own stūpa — a scale of description this pilgrimage reserves for the moment just before a story turns. Here it marks the last measurement of the new king's realm before the sūtra steps outside the story entirely to say who everyone in it has really been.
Part 1222 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-five. Part 1223 steps outside the story Gopā has been telling to reveal who the wheel-turning king, his father, and the maiden really were.