大方便佛報恩經 5.40

5.40

時流離王即生慙愧，喚旃陀羅，即刵耳鼻，截斷手足。斷手足已，即以車載棄於塚間。時諸釋女宛轉，無復手足，悲號酸切，苦毒纏身，餘命無幾。時諸釋女各稱父母、兄弟、姉妹者，或復稱天喚地者，苦切無量。惟其中有第一釋女告諸女言：「姉妹！當知我曾從佛聞：『若有一人能於運急之中，發於一念念佛，至心歸命者，即得安隱，各稱所願。』」時五百釋女異口同音至心念佛：「南無釋迦牟尼多陀阿伽度、阿羅訶、三藐三佛陀。」復更唱言：「苦哉！苦哉！痛哉！痛哉！嗚呼！婆伽婆、修伽陀。」作是唱時，於虛空中，以如來慈善根力故，起大悲雲，雨大悲雨，雨諸女人身。既蒙雨已，身體手足還生如故。諸女歡喜，俱唱是言：「如來慈父，無上世尊，世間妙藥，世間眼目，於三界中能拔其苦，施與快樂。所以者何？我等今者得脫苦難。我等今者，當念佛恩，當念報恩。」諸女念言：「當以何事而報佛恩？如來身者，金剛之身，常住之身，無飢渴身，微妙色身，悉是具足百千禪定、根力、覺道、不可思議三十二相、八十種隨形之好；具二莊嚴，住大涅槃；等視眾生如羅睺羅，怨親等觀，亦不望報。我等今者欲報佛恩，當共出家，修持禁戒，護持正法。」思惟是已，即求衣鉢，往詣王園比丘尼精舍，求索出家。

King Virūḍhaka then felt shame and remorse, and summoned caṇḍālas, who immediately cut off their ears and noses, and severed their hands and feet. Having severed their hands and feet, they loaded them onto carts and abandoned them in a charnel ground. At that time, the Śākya women writhed about, no longer having hands or feet, weeping with piercing grief, racked with virulent pain, with but little life remaining. The Śākya women each called upon their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, or cried out to heaven and called upon earth, in immeasurable, acute agony. Only the foremost Śākya woman among them addressed the women, saying: "Sisters! You should know that I once heard from the Buddha: 'If a single person in the midst of extreme emergency is able to bring forth a single thought of mindfulness of the Buddha, wholeheartedly taking refuge, they will immediately attain peace and have all their wishes fulfilled.'" At that time, the five hundred Śākya women with one voice wholeheartedly recollected the Buddha: "Namo Śākyamuni Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksaṃbuddha." They further cried out, saying: "Woe! Woe! Pain! Pain! Alas! Bhagavān, Sugata!" When they made this cry, in the midst of empty space, through the power of the Tathāgata's root of kindness, a great cloud of compassion arose and rained down a great rain of compassion, raining upon the bodies of the women. Having received this rain, their bodies, hands, and feet grew back as before. The women rejoiced and together uttered these words: "The Tathāgata is our compassionate father, the supreme Bhagavat, a wondrous medicine for the world, the eyes of the world, able to pull out suffering in the three realms and bestow happiness. Why is this? We have now attained release from suffering and calamity. We must now be mindful of the Buddha's kindness; we must be mindful of repaying his kindness." The women thought: "With what should we repay the Buddha's kindness? The Tathāgata's body is a vajra body, an eternally abiding body, a body free from hunger and thirst, a wondrously subtle physical body, completely endowed with hundreds of thousands of dhyānas, faculties, powers, the path of awakening, the inconceivable thirty-two marks and eighty minor marks; endowed with the two adornments, abiding in the great nirvāṇa; viewing sentient beings equally, like Rāhula, regarding enemies and kin alike, and not expecting repayment. We now wish to repay the Buddha's kindness; we should together go forth from household life, cultivate and maintain the monastic precepts, and protect the saddharma." Having reflected thus, they immediately sought robes and bowls, and went to the nunnery in the royal park to seek to go forth from household life.