大方便佛報恩經 5.48

5.48

"Afterward, her husband continued to rob and plunder, was captured by the king, and was punished for his crime. By the law for punishing bandits, he had to be put to death, and his wife buried alive along with him. At that time, my body was adorned with exquisite necklaces. Someone greedy for the necklaces opened the tomb in the late night, took my necklaces, and took me away with him. After a short time, the king's inspecting officers caught him, and judged him by the law, punishing him like a bandit. By the law for punishing bandits, he was put to death, and his wife buried alive along with him. Because the burial was not secure, during the late night many tigers and wolves dug open the tomb to eat the dead corpses. Because of this, I got out immediately. Having gotten out, confused and bewildered, not knowing east from west, I ran aimlessly. Seeing many people on the road, I asked them, saying: 'All of you, know that I am now in agony and distress. Where can I forget grief and eliminate affliction?' At that time, an elder brāhmaṇa and others, out of compassion, said to me: 'I have heard that within the Dharma of Śākyamuni Buddha, there is much peace and an absence of decline and distress.' Hearing this, joy arose in my heart, and I went to the bhikṣuṇī Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī to go forth from household life. Cultivating sequentially, I attained the fruit of the Way, the three knowledges, the six supernormal powers, and became endowed with the eight liberations. Through these causes and conditions, you should know that when I was in household life, my toils and sufferings were like this. Through these causes and conditions, I attained the Way by myself."