A Treasury No Words Can Exhaust
After a passage running many parts, describing quality after quality of these bodhisattvas, the sūtra simply admits that no amount of words could ever exhaust what they hold — and then, rather than continue describing them, lets their own joy speak instead, as clouds of adornment pour forth from their own bodies.
From Description to Demonstration
Having spent many parts describing what these bodhisattvas possess, the sūtra closes that description by admitting its own limit — no words can exhaust their merit — and then moves from telling to showing, as their own joy at the Buddha's own light gives rise to clouds of adornment filling the entire dharma-realm.
其諸菩薩具如是等無邊福智功德之藏，常為諸佛之所稱歎，種種言辭說其功德不能令盡，靡不咸在逝多林中，深入如來功德大海，悉見於佛光明所照。爾時，諸菩薩得不思議正法光明，心大歡喜，各於其身及以樓閣、諸莊嚴具，并其所坐師子之座，遍逝多林一切物中，化現種種大莊嚴雲，充滿一切十方法界。
All these bodhisattvas are endowed with a boundless treasury of merit and wisdom, exactly like this; they are constantly praised and extolled by every buddha, and no matter how many kinds of words are used to describe their own merit, it can never be exhausted. There is not one of them who is not present within the Jeta Grove, having entered deeply into the great ocean of the tathāgata's own merit, and every one of them sees what the Buddha's own light illuminates. At that time, these bodhisattvas, having attained the inconceivable light of the true dharma, their minds filled with great joy, each, from their own bodies, and from the pavilion, every ornament, and the lion-seat upon which they sat, and from every single object throughout the entire Jeta Grove, conjured every kind of great, adorning cloud, filling the entire dharma-realm in all ten directions.
種種言辭說其功德不能令盡 — no matter how many kinds of words are used to describe their own merit, it can never be exhausted. After a passage that has already used dozens of clauses to describe these bodhisattvas, this line does not add one more attempt — it simply names the futility of the attempt itself, before the sūtra turns from words to the clouds these very bodhisattvas conjure instead.
Part 880 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-one. Part 881 turns to the specific clouds these bodhisattvas conjure, naming ten kinds — clouds of light, of jeweled bells, of music, and of every buddha's own vow.