仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 3.49

3.49

解曰：言塚間者，所住處也。言摩訶者，此翻云大。言迦羅者，此云黑天也。上句梵語，下句唐言。大黑天神，鬪戰神也。若禮彼神，增其威德，舉事皆勝，故嚮祀也。何以知者？三藏引別梵夾云：《孔雀王經》說，烏尸尼國國城之東有林，名奢摩奢那，此云尸林。其林縱廣滿一由旬，有大黑天神，是摩醯首羅變化之身。與諸鬼神無量眷屬，常於夜間遊行林中。有大神力，多諸珍寶，有隱形藥、有長年藥，遊行飛空，諸幻術藥與人貿易，唯取生人血肉，先約斤兩而貿藥等。若人欲往，先以陀羅尼加持其身，然往貿易；若不加持，彼諸鬼神乃自隱形，盜人血肉令減斤兩。即取彼人身上血肉，隨取隨盡，不充先約，乃至取盡一人血肉，斤兩不充，藥不可得。若加持者，貿得寶貝及諸藥等，隨意所為皆得成就。若嚮祀者，唯人血肉。彼有大力，即加護人所作勇猛，鬪戰等法皆得勝也。故大黑天神即鬪戰神也。如《賢愚經》說祀羅剎，《普明王經》說取百王以祀樹神，《師子斷肉經》說取百王以祀山神，各隨文矣。從此第二明得千王。於中分二：且初第一得諸王等。

Exposition: 'In the charnel ground' refers to the dwelling place. 'Mahā' is translated here as 'great.' 'Kāla' is translated here as 'black deity.' The upper segment is the Sanskrit phrase, and the lower segment is the Chinese meaning. The great black celestial deity is a deity of battle. If one worships this deity, it increases one's awe-inspiring power, and all endeavors end in victory; hence he made sacrifices to it. How is this known? The tripiṭaka master cited another Sanskrit pothi, saying: The *Mahāmāyūrī Sūtra* says that east of the royal city of the country of Uśīnara there is a forest named Śmaśāna, translated here as charnel forest. This forest is a full yojana in extent, and within it is the great black celestial deity, who is an emanation body of Maheśvara. Together with an immeasurable retinue of ghosts and spirits, he constantly roams through the forest at night. Possessing great spiritual power and abundant rare treasures, he has medicine for invisibility and medicine for longevity, roams and flies through the sky, and trades various magical medicines with humans, taking only the flesh and blood of living persons, measuring the weight in advance before trading the medicine and such. If a person wishes to go there, they must first empower their own body with a dhāraṇī and only then go to trade; if they do not empower themselves, those ghosts and spirits will make themselves invisible and steal the person's flesh and blood to reduce the weight. They then take the flesh and blood from that person's body; as soon as it is taken it is exhausted, failing to fulfill the previous agreement, even to the point of exhausting the entire person's flesh and blood without fulfilling the weight, so the medicine cannot be obtained. If one has empowered oneself, one trades for jewels, medicines, and the like, and whatever one desires will all be accomplished. If one makes sacrifices to him, it must be only human flesh and blood. Since he has great power, he protects people so that their deeds become heroic and they triumph in battles and other arts. Therefore, the great black celestial deity is indeed a deity of battle. As the *Damamūka-nidāna Sūtra* speaks of sacrificing to rākṣasas, the *King Samantaprabha Sūtra* speaks of taking one hundred kings to sacrifice to a tree spirit, and the *Lion's Severance of Meat Sūtra* speaks of taking one hundred kings to sacrifice to a mountain spirit, each follows its own text. From here, the second part explains his obtaining the thousand kings. In this there are two parts: first, obtaining the various kings and so on.