大方便佛報恩經 5.9

5.9

時舍利弗說是偈慰喻諸大眾已，現大神力，身昇虛空，化作千頭寶象。一一象身共相蟠結，千頭外向；一一象皆有七牙；一一牙上有七浴池；一一浴池有七蓮花；於花臺上有七化佛；一一化佛皆有侍者舍利弗；一一舍利弗放大光明，普照十方無量恒沙世界，遠召有緣。有緣既集，時舍利弗復現大身，滿虛空中，大而現小；入地如水，出無間隙，入無孔竅；或身下出火，身上出水，踊沒虛空；或作千作百，乃至無數。現種種神變已，從虛空下，往大眾中，廣為說法，示教利喜，令無量百千眾生發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。復有無量百千眾生得須陀洹道乃至阿羅漢果；復有無量百千人發聲聞辟支佛心。

When Śāriputra had consoled the great assembly with these verses, he manifested great supernormal powers: he rose into the sky and transformed himself into a thousand-headed precious elephant. The bodies of the elephants were intertwined with one another, their thousand heads facing outward. Each elephant had seven tusks; upon each tusk were seven bathing pools; in each bathing pool were seven lotus flowers; upon each flower dais were seven transformed Buddhas; each transformed Buddha had an attendant Śāriputra; each Śāriputra emitted a great radiance that universally illuminated immeasurable worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges in the ten directions, summoning those with affinity from afar. When those with affinity had assembled, Śāriputra manifested a great body filling the sky, and from being large he manifested as small; he entered the earth as if it were water, emerging without gaps and entering without openings; or fire issued from the lower part of his body and water issued from the upper part, leaping and disappearing in the sky; or he became a thousand, a hundred, even countless. Having manifested various supernormal transformations, he descended from the sky, went into the midst of the great assembly, and broadly preached the Dharma for them, instructing, guiding, benefiting, and gladdening them, causing immeasurable hundreds of thousands of sentient beings to give rise to the aspiration for anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi. Furthermore, immeasurable hundreds of thousands of sentient beings attained the path of srotāpanna up to the fruit of arhatship; furthermore, immeasurable hundreds of thousands of people gave rise to the aspiration of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas.