妙法蓮華經文句 2.6

2.6

「離婆多」，亦云離越，此翻星宿，或室宿，或假和合，《文殊問經》稱常作聲。父母從星辰乞子，既其感獲因星作名，雖得出家猶隨本字。假和合者，有人引《釋論》，空亭中宿，見二鬼爭屍，告其分判。設依理、枉理俱不免害，故隨實而答。大鬼拔其手足，小鬼取屍補之，食竟，拭口而去。其因煩惱不測誰身故，言假和合。常作聲者，其疑此事，若我本身眼見拔去，若是他身復隨我行住。疑惑猶豫逢人即問：「汝見我身不？」故言常作聲。眾僧云：「此人易度。」語云：「汝身本是他遺體，非己有也。」即得道也（云云）。《增一》云：「坐禪入定，心不倒亂者，離越比丘第一。」

“Revata”, also called Liyue, is translated as “Constellation”, or “Revatī Constellation”, or “False Conjunction”. The Questions of Mañjuśrī Sūtra calls him “Constantly Making Sounds”. His parents prayed to the stars for a son; having thus been conceived in response, he was named after the star. Even after leaving home, he still went by his original name. As for “False Conjunction”, someone cites the Dàzhìdù lùn: lodging in an empty pavilion, he saw two ghosts fighting over a corpse, who told him to arbitrate. Whether judging by the facts or wrongly, he could not avoid harm, so he answered truthfully. The large ghost tore off his arms and legs, and the small ghost took the corpse’s limbs to replace them; having finished eating, they wiped their mouths and left. Because he was troubled and could not fathom whose body it was, he was called “False Conjunction”. As for “Constantly Making Sounds”, he was perplexed by this matter: “If it is my original body, I saw it torn away with my own eyes; if it is another's body, it still follows me in moving and staying.” Hesitant and doubtful, whenever he met someone he would ask: “Do you see my body or not?” Therefore he was called “Constantly Making Sounds”. The assembly of monks said: “This man is easy to convert.” They told him: “Your body was originally another's leftover form, not your own.” Thereupon he attained the Way (and so on). The Ekottarika-āgama states: “Among those who sit in meditation and enter absorption without a distracted mind, the monk Revata is foremost.”