金剛經纂要刊定記 5.247

5.247

降怨下。敘其本事。準《本行經》說：昔有大城，名為蓮華。城中有王，名曰降怨。有一婆羅門，名曰日主。為王所重，分與半國封授為王，別為王城，名為埏主。日主夫人，名為月上。然燈菩薩降神右脇出家成道。時降怨王將欲迎請，遂勅城內外十二由旬，禁斷諸華不令私賣，王皆自買以供如來。彼國雪山南面有一梵志，名曰珍寶，有五百弟子。中有一弟子，名之雲童，或名善慧，於彼眾中而為上首，所有仙法皆學已了，辭師還家。師曰：「汝今將歸，須以清淨傘蓋革屣金杖乃至金錢五百報感之恩。」雲童曰：「我今並無此物，但放我去，得即送來。」師即放之。雲童因赴無遮之會，得五百金錢，便欲送還師處。因至蓮華城內，見城嚴麗，即問於人，乃知然燈如來欲至。遂將三百金錢，於一婢子處，買得五枝優鉢羅華，兼彼女子寄華兩枝，共為供養。時佛入城，即以此華散佛頂上。以願力故，成於華蓋隨佛行住。佛神力故化一方泥，善慧見之布髮而掩，復作是念：「願得如來踏我身過，若不蒙記莂，我終不起。」如來即至履之而過，止諸徒眾皆不令踏，即授其記，作如是言：「此摩那婆於未來世當得作佛，號釋迦牟尼，十號具足如我無異。」今善吉意云：既若買華供佛、布髮掩泥即是菩薩，若此非菩薩者，則孰為菩薩歟？

"Subduing Enmity..." below: recounting the original event. According to what is explained in the *Abhiniṣkramaṇa Sūtra*: long ago there was a great city named Padmapura. In the city there was a king named Subduer of Enmity. There was a brahmin named Sūryapati. He was revered by the king, who divided half the kingdom and enfeoffed him as king, creating a separate royal city named Śāndipati. Sūryapati's wife was named Candrottarā. The Bodhisattva Dīpaṃkara descended into the spirit through the right rib, left home, and achieved the Way. At that time King Subduer of Enmity, wishing to welcome and invite him, issued an edict across twelve yojanas inside and outside the city forbidding all flowers from being privately sold; the king bought them all himself to make offerings to the Tathāgata. On the south face of the Snow Mountains in that country there was a brahmacārin named Ratna, who had five hundred disciples. Among them was a disciple named Megha, or named Sumati, who was the leader among that assembly; having fully studied all the rishi teachings, he took leave of his teacher to return home. The teacher said: "Now that you are about to return, you must offer a pure parasol, leather sandals, a gold staff, and even five hundred gold coins to repay the debt of gratitude." Megha said: "I have none of these things at present; just let me go, and as soon as I obtain them I will send them." The teacher then let him go. Megha, by attending an unhindered gathering, obtained five hundred gold coins, and thereupon wished to send them back to his teacher's place. Because he arrived inside the city of Padmapura and saw how adorned and magnificent the city was, he questioned the people and came to know that Dīpaṃkara Tathāgata was about to arrive. Thereupon, taking three hundred gold coins, he bought five stems of utpala flowers from a servant-girl; together with two stems of flowers entrusted to him by that girl, they jointly made the offering. At that time, when the Buddha entered the city, he scattered these flowers over the Buddha's crown. Through the power of his vow, they formed a flower canopy that followed the Buddha as he moved and stayed. Through the Buddha's supernatural power, a patch of mud was manifested; seeing it, Sumati spread his hair to cover it, and further had this thought: "I vow that the Tathāgata will walk over my body; if I do not receive prediction, I will never rise." The Tathāgata immediately arrived, trod upon him, and passed by, stopping the disciples so that none trod on him; he then conferred upon him the prediction, speaking these words: "In a future age, this māṇava will attain Buddhahood, named Śākyamuni, fully possessing the ten titles, no different from me." Now, Subhūti's intent is: since buying flowers to offer to the Buddha and spreading hair to cover the mud is precisely being a bodhisattva, if this is not a bodhisattva, then who is a bodhisattva?