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And recites the mantra 3 times: Oṃ_ svabhāva śuddha sarva dharma svabhāva śuddha-uhaṃ
Then with the mudra, touches the five blessing points: forehead, right and left shoulders, heart
and throat, each time recites the mantra once.)
Sit in the full or half lotus pose
Strengthen the Great Bodhi-citta
And never give up.
Continue to visualize
From that ocean, Sumeru Mountain rises
Keep reciting this mantra 7 times:
OṂ_ ACALA HŪṂ
A censer in hands,
Recite this vidyā
Whose name is Road Ruling vidyā:
OṂ_ SUSIDDHI KARI_ JVALITĀNAṂ TAMUTTAYE JVALA JVALA
BANDHA BANDHA HANA HANA HŪṂ PHAṬ
A gate lock appears in the air,
And disasters will be wiped out.
Form the Entering the Altar mudra (降入道場契 - Don’t know what this mudra is. In 1231th
sutra, it seems to be like this picture
)
Snap the left thumb.
Then, form the Invocation Mudra
Turn the two thumbs outside (to form the Valediction Mudra).
Visualize that Ucchusma returns to his palace,
Which is like before, to give the protection.
When being outside the altar
Form the Tower mudra (印塔- Don’t know what this mudra is)
And read the Mahayana Vaipulya Sutra (方廣大乘經- Don’t know if it is number 275th)
Recite the Possession Mantra (vidyā) to bless (所持明 - Don’t know what this vidyā is)
Four Homas
Next, the four wonderful homas
That prayer needs to practice.
Performing Śāntika Homa
To pray for intelligence and longevity.
It is also to eliminate the disasters.
Face to the North; cross the shin-bones.
Rise the right knee and right shin-bone.
Everything must be in white color.
Clothes, food, incenses and flowers, soil,
And the candles,
And the mantra words
All are in white.
Recite the mantra,
Twenty one times continuously (in the Chinese version, it is 37 times).
Say the word “OṂ” first
Pray you help me (name of the prayer) eliminate all enmities
And the word “SVĀHĀ” at the end.
(Until now, the mantra is still unidentified and it is hard to say if this is Śāntika mantra or not.
The only source that share the same “content” is the 912th sutra - The Liturgy for Building A
Mandala Homa. In the 848th, 909th, 1075th and 1169th sutras, the Śāntika mantra is referred.
However, the 909th, 1075th and 1169th sutras do not mention of reciting 21 or 37 times. The
mantra in 848th sutra starts with “NAMAḤ”, not “OṂ”)
Chant the mantra in a low voice.
In the mind, there must be nothing.
If making the Great Altar,
The furnace must be in the round shape.
Inside the altar, put a wheel made from mud.
The Guardian must show the anger.
If performing Puṣṭika Homa
To pray for Five Abilities and the Moving Wheel,
(Five abilities are ability to see everything, ability to hear everything, ability to understand other
people’s minds, ability to see the previous lives and ability to move to anywhere. In fact, there is
another ability to master the self absolutely and avoid the reincarnation. Five abilities can be
practice by Devil, Deva, Fairy and Human, but the last one is only for Arhat, Bodhisattva and
Tathāgata)
(The things to offer)
Treasures, wheels, pestles, swords
And other precious things,
And pills, and eye medicines.
(The prayer) Faces to the East.
Everything must be in red color.
Use the same Mantra (that means use the same Mantra of Śāntika)
Do nothing different,
And say SVĀHĀ.
The wish will be true.
Pray in a low voice, and nothing in mind.
The Guardian must show the anger,
And the furnace is in the square shape.
Inside the altar, put a three-pronged Vajra.
If performing Vaśikaraṇa
To summon Human, Deva, Naga,
Devil and Unhuman,
Face to the West, sit in half lotus pose.
Modify the “OṂ” Mantra
And then say “SVĀHĀ”.
Pray you help me
Achieve what I wish.
Recite the mantra with happiness in mind,
The Guardian shows the peace or the great anger form.
Both can protect me.
The furnace is like a lotus with 8 petals
Blooming, showing its pistil and calyx.
If performing Abhicāruka
To defeat the evils or the bad people,
Who can damage the Three Treasures,
Press the left toe with the right toe,
Visualize the image of the Perfect Brightness (圓明- the perfect brightness) in my heart,
(From description, furnace is the kind made by digging earth, not made from wood)
Whose size is about two hastas,
And shape depends on furnace mouth,
And floor’s height is about a finger.
(Because this kind of furnace is made by digging the earth, is that floor the floor surrounding the
furnace?)
In the middle, dig deep about one hasta
To complete the furnace.
The height of the edge is 4 fingers.
The edge is square-shaped, each side is one inch
(One Chinese inch is 3,33 cm. However, it seems impossible. In 889th sutra, the third book, it is
written that if the edge’s height is 4 fingers, the width and length are 8 fingers.)
That is the rule of making furnace.
Make a wheel and a pestle from mud
Put them in the middle (of the drawing altar or the furnace?)
Lather it (alter or furnace?) with Gomaya (Cow dung)
(In India, cow is a holy animal, and cow dung is believed to be the cleanest object. People lather
the altar with cow dung in order to purify the altar or throw it to furnace as a Homa offering.)
And with sandalwood, and so on.
The color is based on the Homa.
Spread kusha grass on the floor,
Cover the seedlings.
Two Argha water bottles
Near the right hand,
Cogon grass as burning object near the left hand.
Prepare some branches,
Whose length is ten fingers.
Wet the two heads of the branches
With butter, honey, milk and nut.
When there are half of burning objects left,
Use more wood to keep the fire.
Don’t use old wood,
Don’t use mouth to blow the fire (That means blow the air with mouth to make the fire stronger)
When the fire is lit, recite this mantra
3 times, to get the blessing,
OṂ BHŪḤ JVALA HŪṂ
With the fire burning,
Use Krodha-raja Purification mudra and mantra to purify.
This is how to form the mudra:
Two hands is shaped with their backs touched each other
Eight fingers (except thumbs) hook together.
Turn the two wrists
To make a fist.
And then, recite this mantra:
OṂ _ KILIKILA VAJRA HŪṂ PHAṬ
Then, invite Agni-Deva.
Stretch the right hand,
The right thumb faces the right palm,
Bend the right index finger like a hook.
Slightly stretch, and bend, and slightly stretch the hook three times to invite.
Use this hand to spray water from the left Argha bottle
To purify the fire
Recite this mantra 3 times (spray the water 3 times too):
OṂ _ AMṚTE HANA HANA HŪṂ PHAṬ
Then, still use the right hand
To spray water from the right Argha bottle
To wash Agni-Deva’s mouth
Then recite the Mañju mantra:
OṂ _ VARADA VAJRA DHAṂ
Hold in the left hand a scoop
And a spoon in the right hand.
Scoop butter with the scoop.
Put the spoon down,
And hold the scoop with the right hand.
Recite this mantra,
And offer the butter to the fire:
AGNAYE HAVYA KAVYA VĀHĀ NĀYA DĪPYA DĪPYA DĪPAYA_
SVĀHĀ
When chanting to
Lengthen the sound,
Draw the scoop back,
And finish the sound.
This is to immolate Agni-Deva
Perform the immolation three times.
Like before, purify the fire
And wash Agni-Deva’s mouth with Mañju mantra
Then invite Agni-Deva to leave the furnace
And sit down at the South East position,
Also offer him the offering.
Then, invite the Vajra Master
To sit in the furnace near the prayer.
And invite Ucchusma
To sit in the furnace far from the prayer.
The two Gods face each other.
Use Krodha-raja Purification mudra and mantra,
And the Fire purification, and the mouth washing mantra
Like when immolating Agni-Deva.
At the same time, offer 3 spoons of butter to the fire,
Each time, visualize the body of the prayer,
Ucchusma and Vajra Master
The Fire, and Swords-Medicines,
All become one.
One form made from five.
(Five forms here are the prayer, Ucchusma, Vajra Master, Agni-Deva and the Homa Master – the
God of the Homa, also called the Protector. Technically, the Fire here may refer to Agni-Deva
and Swords-Medicines may refer to the Homa Master, because swords is drawn on the altar and
medicines are one of the offerings)
Each time, recite the Butter Offering Mantra:
AGNAYE HAVYA KAVYA VĀHĀ NĀYA DĪPYA DĪPYA DĪPAYA_
SVĀHĀ
The immolation is done.
Depending on work, use different homas.
Look at the burning place,
Think of spoon or spoon handling form,
Use a small, clean spoon.
When holding, stretch the right index finger,
Leaning on the spoon handle.
Press the right thumb
With the right small, ring, and middle fingers
(The above description is just one possibility. In Vietnamese version, it is stretching the right
index finger, press the right thumb with two middle fingers and two small fingers. However,
following that description will make a strange spoon handling form. It is because a finger has
many names and a name can be for different fingers. Besides, the spoon is always held in the
right hand, the left hand is for scoop.)
Each time reciting (the Butter Offering mantra),
Offer butter (keep offering 3 times)
Two Gods return to the altar.
Perform the Agni-Deva invocation again,
(use the mantra: OṂ _ EHYEHI MAHĀ-BHŪTA-DEVA, ṚṢI-DEVI JASATTAMA_
GṚHITVĀ DUTI_ MAHĀ-RAMA SMISAṂ NIHITOBHAVA AGNIYE_ HAVYA_KAVYA
VĀHĀ NĀYA _ SVĀHĀ above)
And offer 3 scoops of oil.
As usual, offer to the Devas from 8 directions,
Perform the invocation as well as valediction.
Modify the Agni-Deva mudra,
Bend the right index finger, touch it with the right thumb,
And recite this mantra once,
Agni-Deva will return to his palace.
PŪJITOSIMAYĀ BHAKTYĀGACCHA AGNI SVABHĀVANĀṂ PUNARA
PYĀGAMĀDAYA _ SVĀHĀ
Like before, get the protection
And the Evils won’t dare to obsess
(this mean use Vajra Mother mudra and mantra to protect the body, and Vajra Master mudra and
mantra to protect the place)
If dreaming of: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,
Vajras, Devas, Brahmins, or lay Buddhists
Or dreaming of having rice, butter,
Milk, Amrit, fruits,
Or dreaming of flower gardens, or mountains,
Of towers or palaces,
Of sitting on chariots, elephants or horses,
Or white cranes, or peafowls
Or Garuda, or his fellows
Or dreaming of flying over oceans or rivers
Or in the midair,
Or flame over the body,
Or dreaming of listening to Buddha’s teaching
Or seeking for purification,
Those dreams mean that the prayer gets the achievement.
If dreaming of
Strangers, pigs, dogs, donkeys, or camels,
Or being near a corpse,
Or dreaming of Evils and terrifying beings,
Those dreams mean the objects keeping prayer away from achievement.
It is because of forgetting,
Or being against the Samaya.
Recite this mantra to correct the mistake.
1. Maheśvara-rāja
Sits at the North East position,
His mantra is:
OṂ_ RUDRĀYA_ SVĀHĀ
2. The East position is for Indra. His mantra is:
OṂ_ ŚĀKRĀYA _ SVĀHĀ
3. The South East position is for Agni-Deva. His mantra is:
OṂ_ AGNAYE _ SVĀHĀ
4. The South position is for Yama Deva. His mantra is:
OṂ _ VAIVASVATĀYA _ SVĀHĀ
5. The South West position is for Rākṣasa Adhipati. His mantra is:
OṂ_ RĀKṢASA ADHIPATĀYE _ SVĀHĀ
6. The West position is for Varuṇa Deva. His mantra is:
OṂ_MEGHĀŚĀNIYA _ SVĀHĀ
7. The North West position is for Vāyu Deva. His mantra is:
OṂ_ VĀYAVE_ SVĀHĀ
8. The North position is for Vaiśravaṇa Deva. His mantra is:
OṂ_ YAKṢA VIDYADHĀRI _ SVĀHĀ
When inviting the Devas from 8 directions,
(Don’t forget to) offer the offerings.
Depending on the work that need to do,
Use the right mantra.
When building mandala (altar)
And performing other dharma,
Offer the offerings first.
(The offerings) food, incense, candles,
Argha water, flowers, scented oil,
Show all offerings,
And there will never be an obstacle,
And all wishes will become true.
When inviting Vajra Master and Ucchusma
Use their mantras.
(This is the appendix written by Amoghavajra; he translated the sutra from a Sanskrit
version.)
In Butter Offering part, the ancients wrote, “wandering, plucking and throwing away,” (
逶迤搊擲) now it is corrected as “wandering around the wheel and throwing away,” (逶迤輪擲)
In the Lower Book (If a sutra is divided into many book but not more than three, those
books won’t be numbered but called Upper, Middle and Lower) the ancients wrote, “In the
Secret Words of Heart Dharma, if achieving Mang Luo Ye Bojia (莽羅葉博伽- not sure what
this means), getting the title Boja too (博伽稱- the Bojia title).
(The word博伽 in Sanskrit is Bhaga, possibly relating to Bhagavā/ Bhagavat/ Bhagwān)
In Duō lǔ sè jiàn (咄嚕瑟劍 - Is this name of a book?) blend the piece of incense made
from the resin of oriental sweetgum (蘇合香 – the incense made from the resin of oriental
sweetgum, also one kind of Chinese medicines)with canola oil, then throw to the fire 1008 times,
everyone will show their admiration to the prayer.
Now it is corrected as, “Blend the piece of incense made from the resin of oriental
sweetgum and alfalfa plant with canola oil, then throw to the fire 1008 times to have the Blessing
Appearance.”
The ancients wrote 4 sentences; now I will add more. The color is blue-black / Visualize
the image of the Perfect Brightness in the heart, which turns into the Great Sun Wheel./ They are
separated, not the same,/ but shining like a great flame.