大方便佛報恩經 7.21

7.21

「王聞是語，心生憂惱，譬如人噎，既不得咽，又不得吐。即出，宣令一切大臣及諸小王大眾已集，即自宣言：『諸君！當知我曾從智者聞如是語：「若有畜獸，身毛金色，必是菩薩。若一眾生發菩提心，令一切眾生得大利益。」如何今日，是惡獵師，設是方便，殺是菩薩？我今若以官爵、俸祿、象馬、七珍、衣服、飲食、錢財、穀帛賜是惡人，則與彼一道共為勞侶。』思惟是已，即取獵師，奪其命根。持師子皮，還入山中，到尸骸所，即以牛頭栴檀聚而成𧂐，以火闍維師子皮骨，收取舍利，起塔供養。」

"When the king heard these words, his heart was filled with grief and distress, just like a person choking who can neither swallow nor spit it out. He went out at once and issued a command to all the great ministers and lesser kings. When the great assembly had gathered, he proclaimed: 'Gentlemen! You should know that I once heard such words from the wise: "If there is an animal with golden fur on its body, it must be a bodhisattva. If a single sentient being gives rise to the bodhicitta, it brings great benefit to all sentient beings." How is it that today this evil hunter devised such an upāya to kill this bodhisattva? If I now bestow official ranks, emoluments, elephants, horses, the seven treasures, clothing, food and drink, money, or grain and silk upon this evil person, I would be walking the same path as him and becoming his partner in crime.' Having reflected thus, he seized the hunter and took his life. Taking the lion's skin, he returned to the mountains to the place of the carcass. He stacked gośīrṣa-candana to make a pyre, cremated the lion's skin and bones with fire, collected the śarīra, and erected a stūpa to make offerings to them."