[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [陀羅尼雜集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336) › 3.46 # 陀羅尼雜集 3.46 陀羅尼雜集 3.46 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3.46) 是大神呪乃是過去七恒河沙諸佛所說。我於往昔在閻浮提作大國王，十六小國皆悉屬我，我有威猛大策謀力，降伏諸國，三十六國悉來屬我。我時得病命垂欲終，薄福少男正有三子，最大太子闇鈍少智，中者尫弱，其最小子聰明勇哲、博學多聞策謀威勇。見我欲終悉皆來集，一萬大臣亦悉來集，一萬夫人亦悉來集。王時欲終語諸群臣言：「我三子中誰中為王？」諸群臣言：「任大王意。」王時答言：「不應任我。我去之後，治國之法、霸王之事，汝等當知。云何任我？」諸臣咸言：「善哉大王！慈悲臨覆心無憎愛。」一萬大臣同聲唱言：「第三王子堪任為王。」一萬大臣言已辭退。時王正殿身體疲懈，語諸子言：「我今欲臥。」第三王子抱父王頭，中者捉脚，第一王子捉父王手。時王仰臥即便命終，群臣聞之號哭來集，一萬夫人亦悉號哭舉身投地。第三王子見父背喪呼號懊惱，自投於地良久乃蘇。第一太子默然而坐，第二王子坐啼脚頭。諸群臣言：「諸王子等相貌有異。」有一大臣是王叔父，大王在時恒以國事付此大臣。宰相念言：「大王在時恒以國事付囑於我。今此王子意志有異，我宜問之。」即前問言：「今王背喪，諸群臣等皆悉已集。父子之情不應如是，默然而坐而不涕泣。」王子答言：「我與父王都無因緣。第三王子獨是王子，我等二人猶如賓客暫來相過。」大臣答言：「不應如是。國是汝有，非兄則弟。」第三王子㘁咷惋轉前抱兄足：「我小幼稚，不應為王。願兄臨顧紹父王位。」兄時答言：「父王臨終告勅於汝，我徒先生不見告勅，是父王過非汝愆咎。我等二人且當入山，精誠剋厲求神仙道。」言已即去，精誠不久獲得五通，移山住流、手𢱍日月。第三王子葬送父訖，得紹王位，統領諸國四十八年。其後漸漸貪濁心起，人民厭賤。諸小國王及諸群臣，咸皆思念山中神仙：「無貪之性乃得為仙。我等往昔咸皆愚癡，聰聖王子以為愚癡，貪濁王子以為賢聖。」作是念已咸相謂言：「我等諸人當共入山，勸請神仙以為大王，兼有神化威伏諸國。」作是念已，一萬大臣皆共入山推覓求索。會遇見之，一萬大臣拜覲問訊：「神仙尊者！我等頑愚不識正真，為此貪王之所惱亂，人民逃迸國將空虛。唯願尊仙垂顧留眄，慈悲普覆令國還復。」仙人答言：「我無是事。」諸臣答言：「實不得止。」仙人答言：「我寧此死，終不戀國還為人王。」一萬大臣咸相謂言：「我若返國亦皆當死，貪王所殺。不如住此求道神仙。」飲水食菓清閑寂漠，精誠不久皆獲五通，飛騰清虛靡不周遍。爾時貪王心生慚愧，即捨王位出家學道，開父王藏欲大布施。見一金樻七處印印之，以手開樻得陀羅尼，是過去諸佛所說如前無異。得陀羅尼已，開父王藏著四衢道頭，恣其人民擔負而去。我於爾時得此陀羅尼已，即入靜室七日七夜精勤修習，漏盡意解即獲五通。爾時國王福德少故，隣國侵境、風雨不時、人民飢餓。是時國王即請比丘以為國師，共我治化。比丘是時即受其請，愍眾生故為作國師，教其國王治化正法，不貪為本慈悲為性，賞善罰惡尊敬道德，慈愍人民如視赤子，爾時教王此陀羅尼句。王於爾時精誠至故，七日七夜精進不懈。已精進故，十方諸佛、諸大菩薩、釋梵四天王、二十八部諸大鬼神、諸大龍王，擁護國土集其國界，雨澤時節、穀米豐熟、人民安樂。已安樂故，諸小國土皆悉歸屬。當知皆是大神呪力威神乃爾。若諸國王於釋迦牟尼佛千載末頭欲求所願，亦應如是古者國王等無有異。 > This great dhāraṇī-mantra was spoken by past buddhas \[as numerous as\] the sands of seven Gaṅgā rivers. Formerly, when I was a great king in Jambudvīpa, sixteen smaller kingdoms were subject to me. Possessing formidable might and great strategic prowess, I subdued the various countries until thirty-six kingdoms all became subject to me. At that time I fell ill and was on the verge of death. Having meager merit, I had only three sons: the eldest crown prince was dull and of little wisdom, the middle son was frail and weak, and the youngest son was intelligent, brave, and sagacious, widely learned, erudite, strategic, formidable, and valiant. Seeing that I was near the end, they all assembled, as did my ten thousand ministers and ten thousand consorts. As the king was about to expire, he spoke to his ministers, saying: 'Among my three sons, who is fit to be king?' The ministers said: 'We leave it to the Great King’s will.' The king then answered: 'You must not leave it to me. After I am gone, the methods for governing the kingdom and the affairs of hegemonic kingship are for you to know. Why leave it to me?' The ministers all said: 'Excellent, Great King! With loving-kindness and compassion you shelter all, your mind devoid of hatred or favoritism.' The ten thousand ministers proclaimed with one voice: 'The third prince is capable of serving as king.' Having spoken, the ten thousand ministers took their leave. Then the king in the main hall, his body exhausted, said to his sons: 'I wish to lie down now.' The third prince cradled the royal father's head, the middle one held his feet, and the first prince took the royal father's hands. The king lay facing upwards and immediately passed away. Hearing of this, the ministers wept aloud and assembled, and the ten thousand consorts also wept aloud, casting their bodies to the ground. Seeing that his father had passed away, the third prince cried out in anguish, threw himself to the ground, and only revived after a long while. The first prince sat in silence, while the second prince sat weeping at his father's feet. The ministers said: 'The attitudes of the princes are visibly different.' There was a minister who was the king's uncle; during his lifetime the great king had constantly entrusted the affairs of state to this minister. The prime minister reflected: 'When the great king was alive, he constantly entrusted the affairs of state to me. Now these princes have different intentions; I should question them.' He then stepped forward and asked: 'Now that the king has passed away, all the ministers have assembled. The bonds between father and son should not be like this—sitting silently without weeping.' The \[eldest\] prince answered: 'I have no karmic connection with the royal father at all. Only the third prince is truly his son; we two are merely like guests who have stopped by for a brief visit.' The minister replied: 'It should not be so. The kingdom belongs to you; if not the elder brother, then the younger.' The third prince wailed, rolled on the ground in sorrow, and came forward to embrace his elder brother's feet: 'I am young and childish; I should not be king. May my elder brother deign to succeed to our royal father's throne.' The elder brother then answered: 'When our royal father was on the verge of death, he gave the decree to you. Although I was born first, I was not given the decree; this is the royal father's doing, not your fault. We two shall enter the mountains, and with focused devotion and rigorous discipline seek the way of the divine immortals (ṛṣis).' Having spoken, he left. Through focused devotion, before long they attained the five supernormal knowledges, moving mountains, halting flowing streams, and taking the sun and moon in their hands. Having finished the funeral rites for his father, the third prince succeeded to the royal throne and governed the kingdoms for forty-eight years. Later on, greedy and defiled thoughts gradually arose in him, and the people came to despise him. The kings of the smaller states and the ministers all thought of the divine immortals in the mountains: 'Only by having a nature free of greed could one become an immortal. In the past we were all foolish: we considered the wise and sagacious prince to be foolish, and regarded the greedy and defiled prince as worthy and sagacious.' Having thought this, they all said to one another: 'We should go into the mountains together to invite the divine immortal to become the great king, for he possesses supernatural transformations to awe and subdue the kingdoms.' Having thought this, the ten thousand ministers went into the mountains together to search for him. Happening to encounter him, the ten thousand ministers bowed, paid homage, and inquired after him: 'Venerable Divine Immortal! We were obstinate and foolish, unable to recognize the true and authentic; now we are troubled and disturbed by this greedy king, the people flee and scatter, and the country is about to become desolate. We only pray that the venerable immortal deign to glance upon us, extend his loving-kindness and compassion everywhere, and restore the kingdom.' The immortal replied: 'I have no concern with such matters.' The ministers replied: 'Indeed, this cannot be avoided.' The immortal replied: 'I would rather die here than ever long for a kingdom and return to be a ruler of men.' The ten thousand ministers all said to one another: 'If we return to the kingdom, we will all surely die, killed by the greedy king. It is better to stay here and seek the way of the divine immortals.' Drinking water, eating fruit, dwelling in tranquility and solitude, through focused devotion they all soon attained the five supernormal knowledges, soaring into the clear void, traveling everywhere. At that time the greedy king felt ashamed in his heart; he immediately abandoned the royal throne to leave household life and study the Way, and opened his royal father's treasury wishing to make a great distribution of alms. He saw a golden chest sealed in seven places. Opening the chest with his hand, he obtained a dhāraṇī, which was spoken by past buddhas, identical to the one mentioned previously. Having obtained the dhāraṇī, he opened his royal father's treasury, placed its treasures at the heads of the crossroads, and let the people carry them away at will. Having obtained this dhāraṇī at that time, I immediately entered a quiet room, diligently practicing it for seven days and seven nights; with defilements exhausted and mind liberated, I attained the five supernormal knowledges. At that time, because the king possessed meager merit, neighboring states invaded his borders, wind and rain were unseasonable, and the people suffered from famine. The king then invited a monk to be the royal preceptor and govern along with me. The monk then accepted his invitation, and out of pity for sentient beings acted as the royal preceptor, teaching the king the correct Dharma of governing: taking non-greed as the foundation and loving-kindness and compassion as one's nature, rewarding good and punishing evil, revering virtue, and pitying the people as if looking upon newborn infants. At that time he taught the king the phrases of this dhāraṇī. Because the king was earnest at that time, he practiced vigorously without indolence for seven days and seven nights. Because of his vigor, the buddhas of the ten directions, the great bodhisattvas, Śakra, Brahmā, the Four Heavenly Kings, the great spirits and deities of the twenty-eight divisions, and the great nāga kings protected the state and gathered in his realm. Rain fell in season, grains ripened abundantly, and the people were peaceful and happy. Because they were peaceful and happy, the smaller kingdoms all submitted to him. You should know that all of this was due to the majestic spiritual power of the great dhāraṇī-mantra. If kings at the end of the one-thousand-year \[period\] of Śākyamuni Buddha wish to attain their desires, they should act like this ancient king, with no difference. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3.45) - [Next: 3.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3.47) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336~en-mt.3.46) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [七佛八菩薩所說大陀羅尼神呪經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1332.3.31) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1336.3.46) · Pramāṇa