Verse Recap, Then the World-Systems Shake in Eighteen Ways
Samantabhadra folds the vajra, grass-fire, and medicine-tree similes into four closing verses, and the whole cosmos responds at once: every world-system trembles in eighteen distinct ways, clouds of flowers and jewels and buddha-voices fill the sky, and countless tathāgatas — every one of them also named Samantabhadra — appear to confirm this teaching and bestow predictions of awakening on the assembly.
Countless Buddhas, All Named Samantabhadra
A four-verse recap of the whole roots-of-goodness teaching gives way to the chapter's grand closing gesture: an eighteen-fold earthquake, skies filled with clouds of every offering imaginable, and buddhas beyond counting — every single one sharing Samantabhadra's own name — stepping forward to confirm that this same teaching is being spoken, word for word, in every world-system at once.
爾時，普賢菩薩欲重明此義而說頌言：「見聞供養諸如來，所得功德不可量，於有為中終不盡，要滅煩惱離眾苦。
譬人吞服少金剛，終竟不消要當出；供養十力諸功德，滅惑必至金剛智。
如乾草積等須彌，投芥子火悉燒盡；供養諸佛少功德，必斷煩惱至涅槃。
雪山有藥名善見，見聞嗅觸消眾疾；若有見聞於十力，得勝功德到佛智。」
"At that time, wishing to restate this meaning once more, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva spoke these verses: 'The merit gained through seeing, hearing, and making offerings to every tathāgata cannot be measured; it is never exhausted within the conditioned world, and is bound to extinguish every affliction and leave every suffering behind.
It is like a person who swallows even a small piece of vajra: it is never digested, and is bound to emerge in the end; the merit of making offerings to the one of ten powers likewise extinguishes affliction and is bound to reach vajra-like wisdom.
Just as a heap of dry grass piled as high as Mount Sumeru is entirely burned away by a flame no larger than a mustard seed, even the smallest merit from making offerings to the buddhas is bound to cut off affliction and reach nirvāṇa.
The Himalaya has a medicine named Well-Seen; seeing it, hearing of it, smelling it, or touching it dissolves every sickness; whoever sees or hears of the one of ten powers attains supreme merit and arrives at buddha-wisdom.'"
爾時，佛神力故，法如是故，十方各有十不可說百千億那由他世界六種震動，所謂：東涌西沒，西涌東沒，南涌北沒，北涌南沒，邊涌中沒，中涌邊沒。十八相動，所謂：動、遍動、等遍動，起、遍起、等遍起，涌、遍涌、等遍涌，震、遍震、等遍震，吼、遍吼、等遍吼，擊、遍擊、等遍擊。雨出過諸天一切華雲、一切蓋雲、幢雲、幡雲、香雲、鬘雲、塗香雲、莊嚴具雲、大光明摩尼寶雲、諸菩薩讚歎雲、不可說菩薩各差別身雲，雨成正覺雲、嚴淨不思議世界雲，雨如來言語音聲雲，充滿無邊法界。如此四天下，如來神力如是示現，令諸菩薩皆大歡喜；周遍十方一切世界，悉亦如是。
At that time, through the Buddha's own spiritual power, and because the dharma is naturally so, in each of the ten directions unspeakably many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of world-systems shook in six ways: rising in the east and sinking in the west, rising in the west and sinking in the east, rising in the south and sinking in the north, rising in the north and sinking in the south, rising at the edges and sinking in the center, and rising in the center and sinking at the edges. They moved in eighteen distinct ways: trembling, trembling everywhere, trembling everywhere equally; rising, rising everywhere, rising everywhere equally; surging, surging everywhere, surging everywhere equally; quaking, quaking everywhere, quaking everywhere equally; roaring, roaring everywhere, roaring everywhere equally; and crashing, crashing everywhere, crashing everywhere equally. There rained down, surpassing every heaven, clouds of every kind of flower, clouds of every kind of canopy, clouds of banners, clouds of pennants, clouds of incense, clouds of garlands, clouds of scented unguents, clouds of ornaments, clouds of great, radiant maṇi jewels, clouds of bodhisattvas offering praise, clouds of unspeakably many bodhisattvas each with a distinct body; there rained down clouds of the attainment of perfect awakening, clouds of the adornment and purification of inconceivable world-systems, and clouds of the tathāgata's own spoken voice, filling the boundless dharma-realm completely. Just as the tathāgata's spiritual power manifested in this way throughout these four continents, causing every bodhisattva to give rise to great joy, it was likewise so throughout every world-system in all ten directions without exception.
是時，十方各過八十不可說百千億那由他佛剎微塵數世界外，各有八十不可說百千億那由他佛剎微塵數如來，同名：普賢，皆現其前而作是言：「善哉！佛子！乃能承佛威力，隨順法性，演說如來出現不思議法。佛子！我等十方八十不可說百千億那由他佛剎微塵數同名諸佛皆說此法；如我所說，十方世界一切諸佛亦如是說。佛子！今此會中，十萬佛剎微塵數菩薩摩訶薩，得一切菩薩神通三昧；我等皆與授記，一生當得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。佛剎微塵數眾生，發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心；我等亦與授記，於當來世經不可說佛剎微塵數劫，皆得成佛，同號：佛殊勝境界。我等為令未來諸菩薩聞此法故，皆共護持。如此四天下所度眾生，十方百千億那由他無數無量，乃至不可說不可說法界虛空等一切世界中所度眾生，皆亦如是。」
At that time, from beyond world-systems as numerous as the dust-motes of eighty unspeakably many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands in each of the ten directions, tathāgatas as numerous as the dust-motes of eighty unspeakably many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands, all sharing the single name Samantabhadra, appeared before the assembly and spoke these words: "Excellent, excellent! Son of the Buddha! You have been able, upheld by the Buddha's own majestic power and according with the nature of dharma, to expound the inconceivable dharma of the tathāgata's own appearance. Son of the Buddha! We, sharing this same name, as numerous as the dust-motes of eighty unspeakably many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands throughout the ten directions, all expound this very dharma; and just as we have spoken it, every buddha throughout every world-system in the ten directions likewise speaks it in just the same way. Son of the Buddha! In this very assembly now, bodhisattva-mahāsattvas as numerous as the dust-motes of a hundred thousand buddha-lands have attained the samādhi of every bodhisattva's spiritual power; we ourselves bestow upon every one of them the prediction that, within a single lifetime, they will attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening. Sentient beings as numerous as the dust-motes of a buddha-land have given rise to the resolve for unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening; we likewise bestow upon them the prediction that, in a future age, after unspeakably many kalpas as numerous as the dust-motes of buddha-lands, they will all attain buddhahood, sharing the single name Buddha's Supreme Domain. For the sake of causing every future bodhisattva to hear this very dharma, we all together shall uphold and protect it. Just as this is true of the beings delivered throughout these four continents, it is likewise true, without number and without measure, of the beings delivered throughout hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of world-systems in the ten directions, all the way to the beings delivered throughout every world-system equal in extent to the dharma-realm and empty space itself, unspeakably, unspeakably many."
各有八十不可說百千億那由他佛剎微塵數如來，同名：普賢 — tathāgatas as numerous as the dust-motes of eighty unspeakably many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands, all sharing the single name Samantabhadra. The confirming buddhas share their name not with Vairocana, the assembly's own host, but with Samantabhadra, the bodhisattva who has been speaking this entire chapter — a detail that quietly closes the loop opened by 如來性起妙德菩薩's name back at the chapter's start: the one giving this teaching and the countless buddhas verifying it turn out to bear the same name, "Universally Worthy," as if the teaching's own universality had become a proper name.
Part 681 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-seven, 如來出現品, in fascicle fifty-two. Part 682 completes this chapter and fascicle: countless bodhisattvas arrive from beyond even farther world-systems to bear witness, and Samantabhadra closes with a final verse charging the assembly to hold this teaching and never grow heedless.