大方便佛報恩經 5.22

5.22

At that time the king of Magadha raised the fourfold army, went to arrest them, and transported them to a steep and precipitous place deep in the mountains. He then took each bandit, gouged out both his eyes, and cut off his ears and nose. At that time the bodies of the five hundred bandits were racked with pain, and their lives hung by a single breath. Among the five hundred men, there was one who was a disciple of the Buddha; he said to the company: “Our lives are now not long for this world; why do we not wholeheartedly take refuge in the Buddha?”