“Noble one, I know only this bodhisattva liberation called the manifestations that guide beings that appear in all worlds. How could I know the conduct or describe the qualities of bodhisattvas who remain in the aspiration to an ocean of bodhisattva conduct that has no outer limit or center, who have bodies in accordance with the various dispositions of beings, who accomplish an ocean of various faculties, and who have the realization of the various kinds of bodhisattva conduct and prayers?
“Depart, noble one. Here in the bodhimaṇḍa, there is the goddess of the night named Praśantarutasāgaravatī.
“She is seated on a lotus throne with the adornment of shining banners of kings of jewels in its center, and with an entourage of countless millions of night goddesses. Go to her and ask her, ‘How should a bodhisattva train in bodhisattva conduct? How should a bodhisattva practice it?’ ”
Then Sudhana, the head merchant’s son, bowed his head to the feet of the night goddess Samantasattvatrāṇojaḥśrī, circumambulated the night goddess Samantasattvatrāṇojaḥśrī many hundreds of thousands of times, keeping her to his right, and, looking back again and again, departed from the night goddess Samantasattvatrāṇojaḥśrī. [B8]