Day 1 covers the first half of Chapter 1, Introductory
Having last month introduced King Ajatasatru after introducing all of the others present, we move now to the preliminaries.
Thereupon the four kinds of devotees, who were surrounding the World-Honored One, made offerings to him, respected him, honored him, and praised him. The World-Honored One expounded a sutra of the Great Vehicle called the “Innumerable Teachings, the Dharma for Bodhisattvas, the Dharma Upheld by the Buddhas.” Having expounded this sutra, the Buddha sat cross-legged [facing the east], and entered into the samadhi for the purport of the innumerable teachings. His body and mind became motionless.
Thereupon the gods rained mandarava-flowers, mahamandarava-flowers, manjusaka-flowers, and maha-manjusakaflowers upon the Buddha and the great multitude. The world of the Buddha quaked in the six ways. The great multitude of the congregation, which included bhiksus, bhiksunis, upasakas, upasikas, gods, dragons, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas, men, nonhuman beings, the kings of small countries, and the wheel-turning-holy-kings, were astonished. They rejoiced, joined their hands together [towards the Buddha], and looked up at him with one mind.
This seems so inconsequential read separately, but within the context of what is to be revealed it represents the here and now that will be confirmed tomorrow by Manjusri’s recollections of what happened before, all of which foretells what is to come.