[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [妙法蓮華經文句](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718) › 1.154 # 妙法蓮華經文句 1.154 妙法蓮華經文句 1.154 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.154) 仁賢劫初，當寶如來出世時，瞿曇識神始託生。若尋此意，民主已來即姓瞿曇，從懿摩王四子，一面光、二象食、三路指、四莊嚴，被猜徙雪山北直樹林中，國人樂從者如市，欝為彊國，父王歎曰：「我子有能。」四子因此為姓。又其地釋迦樹甚茂，此翻直林，既於林立國，即以林為姓。外國語多含，釋迦亦直、亦能，今淨飯所承，承莊嚴王後，莊嚴即是烏頭，烏頭生烏頭羅，烏頭羅生尼求羅，尼求羅生尸休羅，尸休羅即師子頰，師子頰生三飯，斛飯二子，長名摩訶男，季阿那律，乃是淨飯王之姪兒，斛飯王之次子，世尊之堂弟，阿難之從兄，羅云之叔，非聊爾人也。故周公歎曰：「我是文王之子，武王之弟，成王之叔，於天下非賤人也，而沐三握，餐三吐，禮賢尚爾，況餘人乎？」 > At the beginning of the Virtuous Kalpa, when Ratna Tathāgata appeared in the world, Gautama's consciousness first took rebirth. If one investigates this meaning, from the people's sovereign onward they were surnamed Gautama. The four sons of King Ikṣvāku—first, Radiant Face; second, Elephant Eater; third, Road Pointer; fourth, Adornment—were suspected and exiled to the pine (or straight-tree) forest north of the Snow Mountains. The people of the kingdom who joyfully followed them were like a market, and it flourished into a powerful kingdom. The father king sighed and said, "My sons are capable (śākya)." The four sons thereupon took this as their clan name. Furthermore, in that place the śākya trees were very luxuriant, translated here as "straight forest"; since they established the kingdom in the forest, they took the forest as their surname. Foreign words have multiple connotations; śākya means both "straight" and "capable." The lineage that Śuddhodana inherited stems from King Adornment; Adornment was Ulkāmukha (Wutou); Ulkāmukha fathered Ulkāmukharāja; he fathered Nyagrodha; he fathered Śikhi (Shixiuluo), who was Siṃhahanu; Siṃhahanu fathered the three "Rice" kings. Droṇodana had two sons: the elder named Mahānāma, and the younger Aniruddha. Thus he was King Śuddhodana's nephew, King Droṇodana's second son, the World-Honoured One's paternal cousin, Ānanda's cousin, Rāhula's uncle—no ordinary person. Therefore the Duke of Zhou sighed, saying: "I am the son of King Wen, the younger brother of King Wu, and the uncle of King Cheng; in the world I am no lowly person, yet when washing my hair I grasp it three times, and when dining I spit out my food three times \[to receive guests\]—if one who observes etiquette toward the worthy is still like this, how much more so for others?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.153) - [Next: 1.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.155) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718~en-mt.1.154) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.154) · Pramāṇa