妙法蓮華經文句 2.134

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「羅睺羅」，此云障持，障持日月者也，是畜生種，身長八萬四千由旬，口廣千由旬，寶珠嚴身，觀天女天園林，若四天下人，孝養父母、供養沙門者，諸天有威力，上空雨刀；若不爾，諸天入宮不出。又日放光照其眼，不能得見，舉手掌障日，世人咸言日蝕怪險，種種邪說；掩月亦如是。或作大聲，世人言天獸吼，險亂王衰，種種邪說。怖日月時，倍大其身氣呵日月，日月失光。來訴佛，佛告羅睺：「莫吞日月。」羅睺支節戰動，身流白汗，即放日月，日月力、眾生力、佛力，眾因緣故不能為害。昔有婆羅門聰明廣施，四千車載食，於曠野施。有一佛塔，惡人所燒，即以四千車載水滅火救塔，歡喜發願，願得大身，欲界第一。既無正信、好鬪愛戰、喜施，故生光明城，作羅睺羅修羅主也。《正》本云「吸氣」。本、觀（云云）。

"Rāhula" is translated here as "obstruction-keeper" [Rāhu]; he is the one who obstructs and holds the sun and moon. He belongs to the realm of beasts. His body is eighty-four thousand yojanas tall, and his mouth is one thousand yojanas wide. Adorned with precious gems, he observes the heavenly maidens and heavenly gardens. When the people of the four continents are filial toward their parents and make offerings to śramaṇas, the devas possess majestic power and cause knives to rain down from the upper sky; otherwise, the devas enter their palaces and do not come out. Furthermore, when the sun emits light that shines into his eyes so that he cannot see, he raises his palms to obscure the sun; the people of the world all say that a solar eclipse is an ominous and dangerous portent, producing various wrong views; obscuring the moon is also like this. Or when he makes a great sound, worldly people say it is the roar of a celestial beast, betokening peril, turmoil, and the decline of the king, producing various wrong views. When he frightens the sun and moon, he doubles the size of his body and exhales breath upon them, causing them to lose their light. They came to complain to the Buddha, and the Buddha told Rāhu: "Do not swallow the sun and moon." Rāhu's limbs and joints trembled, white sweat flowed from his body, and he immediately released the sun and moon. Through the power of the sun and moon, the power of sentient beings, and the power of the Buddha—due to this multitude of causes and conditions—he could not do harm. In the past, there was a brāhmaṇa of great intelligence who gave widespread charity, transporting food on four thousand carts to distribute in the wilderness. There was a stupa of a buddha that was burned by wicked people; he then transported water on four thousand carts to extinguish the fire and save the stupa. Joyfully he made a vow: "May I attain a great body, supreme within the desire realm." Since he lacked correct faith, was fond of strife, loved fighting, yet rejoiced in giving, he was born in the City of Radiance as Rāhula, king of the asuras. The Zheng version translates it as "Inhaling Breath". The origin and contemplation [are as explained before].