1At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Now at that time the Buddha was meditating in the open during the dark of night, while a gentle rain drizzled down.

Then Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the Buddha feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, approached him, and crushed some large boulders close by him.

2Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse:

3“Even if you shake
this entire Vulture’s Peak,
the rightly released,
the awakened, are unshaken.”

4Then Māra the Wicked, thinking: “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.

1Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe vihārati gijjhakūṭe pabbate. Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā rattandhakāratimisāyaṁ abbhokāse nisinno hoti, devo ca ekamekaṁ phusāyati.

Atha kho māro pāpimā bhagavato bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato avidūre mahante pāsāṇe padālesi.

2Atha kho bhagavā "māro ayaṁ pāpimā" iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi: 

3"Sacepi kevalaṁ sabbaṁ,
gijjhakūṭaṁ calessasi;
Neva sammāvimuttānaṁ,
buddhānaṁ atthi iñjitan"ti.

4Atha kho māro pāpimā "jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato"ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.