何耶揭唎婆像法

Furthermore, take a piece of clean white silk cloth (Bạch Điệp / fine white cotton) that has not been recycled, and invite a skilled Painting Master, without haggling over the price. Bathe and wash with warm scented water, put on new clean garments, and receive the Eight Precepts. Doing thus each day, in a pure place make a Water Maṇḍala (Thủy Đàn) about four cubits wide (the Method concerning the Water Maṇḍala has already been explained in another Section). After the Mantra Master has protected the Body and bound the Boundary, within that Maṇḍala burn every kind of incense and scatter every kind of flower as offerings, and then make supplication.

Within this Maṇḍala, paint the image of the Bodhisattva with a body about one cubit tall. The Bodhisattva has four faces. The central face is the face of the Bodhisattva, exceedingly upright, of compassionate countenance, white-and-red in complexion, with hair purely blue-green.

The face on the left is a wrathful face of black color, baring dog-fangs, with hair extremely fine, like the color of a fierce flame. The face on the right has a greatly laughing countenance (laughing heartily), white-and-red, upright like the face of the Bodhisattva, with hair purely blue-green. Upon the heads of these three faces are all worn a Heavenly Crown (Thiên Quan), and ear-rings are worn.

Upon the crown sits a Transformation Buddha in the cross-legged posture. Upon the crown of the central face make a horse's head of azure-blue color, with its mouth closed. Beneath the Bodhisattva's neck is worn a precious necklace of jeweled garlands (anh lạc / muktāhāra).

Behind the neck and behind the back is a round halo of many layers of colors. The left hand: bend the forearm and place it before the breast, holding a pink lotus flower; the bud of that lotus and the navel of the Bodhisattva are both directed toward the left upper-arm. Upon that flower-dais make a Transformation Buddha wearing the kāṣāya robe, seated cross-legged.

Behind the neck and behind the back is the radiance of a halo. The Bodhisattva turns up the palm of the right hand, extending the five fingers and bending it level with the elbow. That hand uplifts the Cintāmaṇi jewel (Cinta-maṇi, the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel), round and white in color; surrounding this jewel is the radiance of fiery light encircling it.

Directly beneath the jewel in the right hand pour down a rain of all kinds of treasures. Upon the left upper-arm is draped a Hệ-gia-ca-la-giả-ma (a tiger-skin), draped like the bark of a tree, fastened and hung just beneath the armpit. Then draw the tiger-skin trailing down to the groin.

With bangles worn upon the arm, the long draped garment (Heavenly garment, Thiên y) and the lower garment are all painted in accordance with the Method of the Bodhisattva as drawn elsewhere. Set the Bodhisattva standing erect upon the pink lotus. In the empty sky hang a parasol and a jeweled canopy to shade the head of the Bodhisattva, and at the same time paint all the kinds of music of the Heavenly Realm.

On the two sides, in the empty sky, paint the Devas of the Sumeru Assembly dancing and making offerings. When painting this Image, use scented liquid substances to paint; one must not use glue boiled from animal hide. Furthermore, take Tô-Mộc-Khư-Tử (a small tree that yields fragrant resin), pound and grind it into truly fine fragments to be used as the essence of the Lac (Lạc trấp / curd-juice), and blend it according to the Method.

Using the Hayagrīva Heart-Mantra (Ha Gia Yết Lợi Bà Tâm Chú), recite the Mantra twenty-one times; then have the sick person face up toward the empty sky and drink it into the belly, and assuredly all the kinds of poisonous worms within the belly will all be vomited out.

_ There is again a Method for painting and making the Image. Take the powdered fragments of a vessel mixed with new porcelain to make a vessel, then dye it blue-green. Upon this new porcelain vessel, paint the image of Hayagrīva Avalokiteśvara (Ha Gia Yết Lợi Bà Quán Thế Âm), one cubit tall.

The Image has four joyful faces. One face on the left is painted black, with eyeballs of green color, baring dog-fangs. One face on the right is painted red, called the Mantra-Pledge Face (Khế Chú Diện).

The central face is the face of the Bodhisattva, exceedingly upright, painted white. In the empty sky, set apart from the head of the image, paint a blue-green face opening its mouth and spewing forth a precious jewel. These four heads all wear a jeweled crown, and upon each crown sits a Transformation Buddha.

The Bodhisattva: the left hand holds a lotus flower, the elbow bent so as to uplift it directly before the upper-arm. The right hand hangs down, extending the five fingers — this is the hand of Bestowing Fearlessness (Thí Vô Úy / abhaya). Upon the two wrists, make jeweled bangles.

Upon the neck of the Image, wear a necklace of jeweled garlands. The portions of the body are adorned as has been described elsewhere concerning the Method of adorning the body of Avalokiteśvara. That Image stands upon a jeweled lotus.

Having made this Image: from the tenth day of the period of the White Fortnight (the first fifteen days of the month), begin to eat barley, milk, and sesame. Thereafter, on the 13th, 14th, and 15th, for three days and three nights eat nothing. Take Sa-Ca-Tỷ-Già incense and Càn-Đa-Na-Câu-Lợi flowers, and enchant these two things — reciting the Mantra once and cutting once each time — then present them directly before the face, until eight thousand times.

From the mouth of that Image is emitted a vast radiance encircling the Mantra Master, which then returns and enters the mouth of the image. From the mouth of that Image pours forth a Wish-Fulfilling Jewel. The Mantra Master then receives that jewel, and afterward will live long to the age of fourteen thousand years, obtain the Seven Treasures of a Wheel-Turning Sacred King (Cakravartin), and after death be born into the Land of Peace and Bliss (An Lạc / Sukhāvatī) and sit at the feet of Avalokiteśvara.

_ There is again a Method: one should go begging for alms of barley, milk, and pure soft gruel, and then recite seventy thousand times.

Ten thousand recitations — and the Vināyaka are thereupon bound fast.

Twenty thousand recitations — and the Mantra Method is accomplished.

Thirty thousand recitations — and one accomplishes the Medicine Method of An-Na Thiện-Na Ma-Na-Xí-La. For three days and three nights one must not eat, but only perform the Method. Hold that medicine in the hand; at the very moment of enchanting the medicine, three kinds of signs appear within that medicine, whereby one knows the medicine is accomplished. The three signs are: warmth, smoke, and fire. The Mantra Master thereupon accomplishes the Antardhāna (An-Đà-La-Đà-Na / disappearance), leaps up and travels through the empty sky, accomplishes the state of the self-mastering Mantra-Holding Sage (Trì Chú Tiên Nhân / Vidyādhara Ṛṣi), and gains entry into the palace of the Asuras.

Forty thousand recitations — and one will be parted from the surface of the earth by four finger-widths and travel about freely.

Fifty thousand recitations — and assuredly one will, at will, leap up into the empty sky and go.

Sixty thousand recitations — and all the tasks one undertakes are accomplished. All who are summoned (called upon, invoked and convened) will come.

Seventy thousand recitations — and the hair upon the head of the Mantra Master will be perfected into spiraling curls. According as one cultivates, by responsive recollection one will at once draw near and serve Avalokiteśvara, and will then know how all sentient beings of the three times die here and are born there.

_ There is again a Method: if one wishes to strike the four Jaya (Nhạ Giả / Jaya, "Maker of Victory"), before the image of Hayagrīva fast for three days and three nights, grind incense upon the altar, and bring all kinds of incense and flowers, food and drink, milk, gruel, fruits, and so forth — pure, with every kind of offering. Pound and grind Sa-Xà-La-Sa incense, blend it with white honey to make 8,000 pellets, then enchant each single pellet once and cast it into the fire to burn, doing thus until the incense is exhausted, whereupon those four Jaya Multitudes are found.

At first they will see the horse's head and despise it, whereupon it transforms into the head of Hayagrīva. When the Mantra Master gazes straight upward toward them, those four multitudes are all annihilated and dispersed.

_ There is again a Method: First use barley, taking the middle-grade grain, wash it clean, then sincerely pound and grind it and steam it into soft milk-gruel. From the 1st day of the moonlit month, eat the soft milk-gruel until the 13th day, then stop and eat no more. Before the image of Hayagrīva, smear and plaster the ground with scented powder, scatter all kinds of flowers, burn the various famous incenses, and bring every kind of food and drink as offerings.

When finished, take Ca-Tỷ-Xà incense, pound and grind it into fine dust, blend it with water to make 8,000 pellets. Take the wood of the Ca-Địa-La (Khadira) tree as firewood and kindle the fire; each time enchant one pellet of incense (incense-soul), then once cast it into the fire to burn, doing thus until the 8,000 pellets are exhausted. When the incense-souls are exhausted, the charcoal transforms into Suvarṇa gold (Tô-Bạt-Na / pure refined gold) of golden color, weighing up to a hundred thousand taels.

_ There is again a Method: If one wishes to defeat the Mantra-holders of the Outer Paths (Heterodox sects), take a little of one's own blood, blend it with white mustard seeds to make 8,000 pellets. On the 14th day of the period of the Black Fortnight (the last fifteen days of the month), fast for one day, take Khư-Đà-La (Khadira) wood and kindle a fire in the hearth; each single time enchant one pellet of white mustard seed, then once cast it into the fire to burn. Doing thus until the 8,000 pellets are exhausted, then all of their mantras will all be destroyed.

_ There is again a Method: Merely recite the Mantra. Cultivating in a wilderness (a desolate, empty plain) and in a place where there is a high mound of sand, food and drink will pour forth of themselves.

_ There is again a Method: At the time of a Solar Eclipse, take one tael of clean Ox-Ghee (Ngưu Tô) and place it in a new porcelain alms-bowl. Then hold the bowl, gaze up at the sun and moon, and enchant the ghee (butter) in the bowl until the ghee grows warm or there appear the signs of smoke and fire. At that very moment, drink the ghee in. When the ghee is finished, then whatever place one wishes to go to, merely rouse the thought and one arrives there at once. If one constantly recites this Mantra, then in all fearsome places there is no fear at all. All obstructions and calamities are released and liberated.

_ There is again a Method: If one is afflicted by a Camel-Boil (afflicted by this boil, one will die), or bitten by the various kinds of venomous snakes (a person who sees such snakes will die), or afflicted by a Luật-Tỳ-Tra-Kê boil — when afflicted by these kinds of boils, enchant yellow clay-mud a full 1,000 times, then smear it upon the boil, and one will straightaway be cured of it. All fearful thoughts of mind will straightaway be cast off.

_ There is again a Method: If a person suddenly meets with a calamity of rivers and waters (a water-calamity), as soon as the mind recollects, one will straightaway not be drowned.

The Methods of this group such as these cannot be told in full; one merely accomplishes them according to one's wish. If one makes a Great Maṇḍala (Đại Man Trà La / Mahā-maṇḍala), one must not engage in carnal lust.

_ The Hayagrīva Curing-Sickness (Healing) Mudrā. With the two hands, interlace the fingers crosswise on the inside, then clench them into fists. Raise the two index fingers with their tips touching each other. Bend the two thumbs, then bend the two index fingers to grip the bases of the nails of the two thumbs, so that the two nails of the index fingers touch back to back.

"Án _ Thể-lỗ-lô, cưu-lô-đà-na, ô-hồng, phán, sa-phộc-hạ"

OMÏ VIRULA KRODHANA HÙMÏ PHATÏ SVÀHÀ

_ The Hayagrīva Alms-Begging Mudrā. Turn up the left hand, raising all five fingers. Bring the right hand down toward the lower direction, then set the tip of the middle finger and the tip of the ring finger so that they both rest touching each other.

"Án _ Thị-na-gia"

OMÏ JÌNÀYA

The two Mudrās above may be used following the Sharp Forbidding-Sword Mudrā (Nhuệ Cấm Đao Ấn).

If one performs this method, first one should forbid and bind the Vināyaka. One should, before the image of Hayagrīva, take the wood of the Cardamom (Đậu Khấu) tree, chop it eight finger-widths long, and burn it. Take An-Tất (guggul) incense to make 8,000 pellets. Each single time enchant one pellet, then once cast it into the fire to burn, until the 8,000 pellets are exhausted, whereupon the Vināyaka are themselves bound fast. The Mantra is:

"Quy mệnh Đát-điệt-tha: Chủ-lỗ, chủ-lỗ Tỳ-chủ-lỗ, tỳ-chủ-lỗ Già-đa-gia-sa, ma-ha-bà-la Tát-bà-tỳ (trị) gia, tỳ-na-dạ-càn-bá-tra-sa-mô-cô-tri, bộ-đá-gia, phán"

NAMAHÏ SAMANTA BUDDHÀNÀMÏ TADYATHÀ : CULU CULU VICULU VICULU GATA YAKSÏA MAHÀ BÀLA SARVA VIDYA VINÀYAKA SAMUKTI BUDDHÀYA HÙMÏ PHATÏ

If a person, during the night, is at first impure (unclean), take white thread and enchant it 800 times, then afterward, performing the Mantra, twist the cord. Each single time one enchants, knot it once, up to 21 knots, then bind it at the waist, and one will not suffer leakage and loss. The Mantra is:

"Quy mệnh Đá-điệt-tha: Bột-địa, bột-dịa, tố-bột-địa Nhận-đạt-lê bột-địa_ Ma-mê-thâu-ca-lam-bà-la-mỗ-giả-đô, sa-ha"

NAMAHÏ SAMANTA BUDDHÀNÀMÏ TADYATHÀ : BUDDHI BUDDHI SUBUDDHI INDRI BUDDHI MA ME 'SIØGHRAMÏ BHARA MUKTO SVÀHÀ

There is again a Method: Enchant the kāṣāya robe. Having recited seven times, tie it into a single knot, and one will straightaway accomplish the Protection of the Body. The Mantra is:

"Đá-điệt-tha: Ha-lị, ha-lị, vô-ha-lị, cú-ha-lê Tát-bà-đột-sắt-đam-chiêm-bà-dạ-nhĩ Dạ-bạt-yết-lam-địa, na-văn-xã-nhĩ, sa-ha"

(Having recorded the above portion, recite accordingly and it will assuredly prove efficacious.)

THE RITUAL MANUAL OF HAYAGRĪVA VIDYĀRĀJA (MÃ ĐẦU MINH VƯƠNG) (The End)