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「賓頭盧頗羅墮」者，《大智度論》云：賓頭盧頗羅墮誓，能師子吼第一。按《請賓頭盧經》云：賓頭盧是字，未詳其義，頗羅墮誓是姓此曰利根，但一切新作屋宅浴室齋會新衣上服先奉請，凡欲請者，當於靜處燒香禮拜向天竺國摩利山至心稱：「南無大德賓頭盧頗羅墮誓，受佛教勅為末法人作福田者，願受我請。」《毘奈耶律》云：其人本貪木旃檀鉢，為樹提長者現神足往取之，佛責之不聽住此界，即往西衢耶尼教化眾生。《三摩竭經》云：佛欲度彼事裸形外道難化國王故，令諸弟子皆現神變一時至彼受其所請。時賓頭盧在於山中縫衣乃忘去，忽憶，以針刺地綖猶著衣，便運神足即往，其山以針綖所牽遂隨後去。時彼國有一懷孕婦人，見大山蔽空而至惶怖墮胎。佛遙知之，令目連往語：「汝後何山？」賓頭盧迴顧見之，把得此山一擲八千里。佛語之曰：「我教化眾生皆欲涅槃，今汝失期又殺一人。人命既重我所不喜，汝從今已後不得復隨我食及預眾會，留汝作後世福田，至彌勒佛出乃得滅度。」賓頭盧聞，憂惱自責食訖入山。《入大乘論》云：阿羅漢無煩惱者，與八住菩薩同修如意足能隨意住世，即賓頭盧是變化身非實身也。

Regarding "Piṇḍolabhāradvāja": The *Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra* states that Piṇḍolabhāradvāja was foremost in the capacity for the lion's roar. According to the *Sūtra on Inviting Piṇḍola*, "Piṇḍola" is a personal name whose meaning is not yet detailed, and "Bhāradvāja" is a clan name, rendered here as "Sharp Faculties." Whenever a new house, bathhouse, vegetarian feast, or new garments and fine clothing are first made, he is to be invited first. Anyone who wishes to invite him should, in a quiet place, burn incense, make obeisance facing Mount Māli in India, and with utmost sincerity proclaim: "Homage to the venerable Piṇḍolabhāradvāja! Having received the Buddha's injunction to serve as a field of merit for people of the end of the Dharma, may you deign to accept my invitation." The *Vinaya* states: He originally craved a sandalwood bowl and, for the householder Jyotiṣka, manifested supernatural powers to go and fetch it. The Buddha reproached him, forbidding him to remain in this realm, whereupon he went to Aparagodānīya to convert sentient beings. The *Samāvatī-sūtra* states: The Buddha, wishing to deliver the difficult-to-convert king who served naked non-Buddhists, ordered all his disciples to manifest supernatural transformations and arrive there simultaneously to accept his invitation. At that time, Piṇḍola was in the mountains mending his robes and forgot to depart. Suddenly remembering, he pricked the earth with his needle while the thread was still attached to the robe, immediately exercised his supernatural powers, and departed; the mountain, dragged along by the needle and thread, followed behind him. At that time, there was a pregnant woman in that country who, upon seeing a great mountain darkening the sky as it came, was terrified and miscarried. Knowing this from afar, the Buddha sent Maudgalyāyana to go and ask him: "What mountain is that behind you?" Piṇḍola looked back, saw it, grasped the mountain, and hurled it eight thousand li away. The Buddha said to him: "My teaching and converting of sentient beings is entirely aimed at nirvāṇa; now you have arrived late and moreover killed a person. Human life is precious, and this displeases me. From this day forward, you may no longer eat with me or attend the assembly. You are kept to serve as a field of merit for future generations; only when Maitreya Buddha appears will you attain nirvāṇa." Hearing this, Piṇḍola was saddened and reproached himself; having eaten, he entered the mountains. The *Mahāyānāvatāra-śāstra* states: Arhats without afflictions, like bodhisattvas of the eighth stage, cultivate the bases of supernatural power and can dwell in the world as they wish; thus Piṇḍola is a transformation body, not a real body.