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The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 2 113 Filled with rage and anger he returned to the throne hall: ‘‘That detestable bewitching devil kills me with affliction!’’ He waited till the fifth watch, when the audience started, Then the order for her beheading was issued fast as a cloud: ‘‘If she is not quickly removed, she will be a danger. If we keep her in prison, it only strengthens her resolve. 12 If there now still is anyone who will try to dissuade Us, All his womenfolk will be confiscated, his relatives killed.’’ As the order was strict, none dared admonish the emperor, All accepted the fact that the princess would meet her fate. The Heaven of the Thirty-three was moved and shaken, The dragon palaces and earth-prisons were all informed. The eye of the Buddha surveyed and knew all-under-heaven (His Dharma-body is completely hidden in Great Emptiness). He stretched out his gold-colored arm that people can’t see, And a dazzling light as of white jade fell on the criminal. The executioner took his sword and lifted it high, as with Bulging eyes filled with rage he gnashed his teeth in anger! With the strength of both his arms: the sword flashed, And on her neck a dazzling light turned into purple clouds. You’d have thought that the princess had died by the sword, Who could know that she would be unperturbed and smile! 13 Both the troops and the people were all filled with joy, And with one voice they all shouted: ‘‘She’s no mortal! Blue Heaven has eyes and protected her from the sky, Obviously she has not been even the slightest bit hurt!’’ The presiding official and the executioner were frightened: ‘‘The princess indeed must be a witchlike she-devil!’’ Immediately they returned to the court and reported: ‘‘May Your Majesty pardon our crime and let us speak!’’ Hearing this, the emperor’s face betrayed his rage; As he loudly shouted, beating his table, his anger grew: ‘‘If even knife and sword cannot do away with her— This girl, this monstrous devil, will kill me with affliction!’’ When the emperor heard this report, he shook his head and pulled his ears, and his soul and gall both dissolved: ‘‘If even sword and knife cannot control her, she indeed is a monstrous sprite! I’ll have to discuss some way with the court officials to have her executed so as to avoid later problems.’’ When the princess heard this, she
114 ThePreciousScrollofIncenseMountain,Part2 prayed to the empty sky: ‘‘Allow me to die, so I will not have to be in conflict with my father, troubling his heart, because it would be my fault if the common people of the whole world would not be at peace.’’ Even before she had finished her vow, the Buddha and Heaven responded and ordained that she would not suffer any pain—like a lamp that’s blown out. The executioner then strangled her with the string of a bow, and she immediately stopped breathing and died. That very moment mountains collapsed and trees feel down; birds and beasts madly rushed about, sadly screaming; the sea dried up and the rivers ran dry, leaving the dragons and fishes no place to hide; heaven and earth were darkened; sun and moon lost their light; the whole sky was covered with snow, and every single creature was coated with frost. To the farthest reaches of the earth, to the edges of the sky—both in her own country and in all foreign states everybody knew that the princess had been executed. Each and every one was filled with sadness, each and every one was moved to tears! Even if they had used iron wheels, they couldn’t have hurt her heart, As in wisdom-samādhi, fully enlightened, it enjoyed its own Nature. 14 Namo Guanshiyin pusa Marvelous Splendor now had had the third princess strangled, And this moved to weeping thousands times millions of people. The empress wept in such a way her liver and gut were rent, All the imperial concubines of the palace were pained by grief. Because the pitiable princess had still been so very young, All the officials and officers at court were awash in tears. In heaven the heavenly gods all shed tears of compassion, And on earth the local gods all were wounded in their heart. The earth moved, the mountains shook, frightening the folk, None of them was seen walking on the streets or the roads. The running animals and flying birds were in despair, Gibbons shrieked and birds cried, weeping again and again. When the presiding official saw that the princess had died, He ordered her shot into a pulp with a volley of arrows: Each and every arrow to be aimed at her heart and liver, Nothing at all to remain of the skin and flesh of her body!
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