Ten Kinds of Vigorous Exertion
This list draws its images from a procession of animal kings — the ox that outshines every celestial assembly, the elephant that bears the weight of every sentient being, the nāga that rains ambrosia, the garuḍa that seizes venomous serpents of affliction — before arriving at the tathāgata's own exertion, which fulfills every dharma of the path and attains awakening within a single thought.
A Procession of Animal Kings
Five of the ten vigorous exertions borrow directly from the animal kingdom's own royalty — ox, elephant, nāga, garuḍa, lion — each contributing a specific quality: the ox's overshadowing presence, the elephant's gentleness under weight, the garuḍa's power to seize venomous serpents of affliction and drain the very water of craving they swim in.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種奮迅。何等為十？所謂：牛王奮迅，映蔽一切天、龍、夜叉、乾闥婆等諸大眾故；象王奮迅，心善調柔，荷負一切諸眾生故；龍王奮迅，興大法密雲，耀解脫電光，震如實義雷，降諸根、力、覺分、禪定、解脫、三昧甘露雨故；大金翅鳥王奮迅，竭貪愛水，破愚癡㲉，搏撮煩惱諸惡毒龍，令出生死大苦海故；大師子王奮迅，安住無畏平等大智以為器仗，摧伏眾魔及外道故。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of vigorous exertion. What are these ten? Namely: the vigorous exertion of the king of oxen, because it outshines every great assembly of devas, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, and the rest; the vigorous exertion of the king of elephants, because its mind is well-tamed and gentle, bearing the weight of every sentient being; the vigorous exertion of the king of nāgas, because it raises great, dense clouds of dharma, flashes the lightning of liberation, sounds the thunder of true meaning, and rains down the ambrosial rain of every faculty, power, factor of awakening, meditative absorption, liberation, and samādhi; the vigorous exertion of the great king of garuḍas, because it dries up the water of craving and attachment, breaks the shell of delusion, and seizes every venomous nāga of affliction, delivering beings from the great ocean of suffering that is birth and death; and the vigorous exertion of the great king of lions, because it abides in the great wisdom of fearless equality as its own weapon, subduing every māra and follower of another path.
勇健奮迅，能於生死大戰陣中摧滅一切煩惱怨故；大智奮迅，知蘊、界、處及諸緣起，自在開示一切法故；陀羅尼奮迅，以念慧力持法不忘，隨眾生根為宣說故；辯才奮迅，無礙迅疾分別一切，咸令受益心歡喜故；如來奮迅，一切智智助道之法皆悉成滿，以一念相應慧，所應得者一切皆得，所應悟者一切皆悟，坐師子座降魔怨敵，成阿耨多羅三藐三菩提故。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得諸佛於一切法無上自在奮迅。
Courageous, vigorous exertion, because it is able, within the great battle array of birth and death, to destroy every enemy of affliction; the vigorous exertion of great wisdom, because it knows the aggregates, elements, and sense-bases and every dependent origination, sovereignly revealing every dharma; the vigorous exertion of dhāraṇī, because it upholds the dharma without forgetting through the power of mindfulness and wisdom, proclaiming it in accordance with every sentient being's own faculty; the vigorous exertion of eloquence, because it discerns everything with unobstructed swiftness, causing every being to benefit and their mind to rejoice; and the vigorous exertion of the tathāgata, because every dharma of the supporting path of all-knowing wisdom is entirely fulfilled, and through wisdom in accord with a single thought, everything that ought to be attained is attained, everything that ought to be awakened to is awakened to, sitting upon the lion's seat, subduing every enemy māra, and attaining unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within this dharma, they attain every buddha's own unsurpassed, sovereignly free, vigorous exertion within every dharma.
竭貪愛水，破愚癡㲉，搏撮煩惱諸惡毒龍 — dries up the water of craving and attachment, breaks the shell of delusion, and seizes every venomous nāga of affliction. This entry builds a complete garuḍa myth in miniature: the great bird traditionally dries the ocean to reach the nāgas hidden beneath it, breaks free of its own egg at birth, and seizes serpents as prey — each detail mapped directly onto craving, delusion, and affliction in turn.
Part 768 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-seven. Part 769 completes fascicle fifty-seven with ten kinds of lion's roar, each one a first-person vow beginning with the words "I shall."