Ekottaragama (Sanskrit fragments) 24.5.42

24.5.42

爾時，迦葉夜起，瞻視星宿，見石室中，有大火光。見已，便告弟子曰：「此瞿曇沙門容貌端政，今為龍所害，甚可憐慜！我先亦有此言：『彼有惡龍，不可止宿。』」是時，迦葉告五百弟子：「汝持水瓶，及輿高梯，往救彼火，使彼沙門得濟此難。」

Kāśyapa got up that night to look up at the stars, and he saw the light of a large fire in the cave. Seeing that, he told a disciple, “This ascetic Gautama is handsome looking, but now he’s being killed by that serpent. What a pity! I told him earlier that it was there. ‘There’s an evil serpent; you can’t stay the night there.’” Kāśyapa then told his 500 disciples, “Get pitchers of water and high ladders and go douse that fire! Save that ascetic from danger!”