阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.79

1.79

贊曰：第八施藥莚僧對也。梵云薄矩羅，此云善容，言薄拘羅訛也。毘婆尸佛入涅槃後，有一比丘甚患頭痛，善容時作貧士，持一呵梨勒施病比丘，比丘服已病即除愈，因施藥故九十一劫天上人間受福快樂。又因往昔曾作比丘，發願不視女子面，不受女子所施衣，不受女子手中飯，尊者母苦憶子情切乃入寺看子，善容不樂，尋時遣母便出房門。母懷小憤，為兒五逆乃發惡願：「願我來世作伊後母種種𣣋治。」果應前願，五殺不死。投佛出家遂成聖果，少欲知足塔涌一錢。故此尊者心唯少欲身不重衣，施良藥之微因，獲無病之殊報，故云施藥也。

The commentary says: The eighth is the pair of bestowing medicine and hosting the Saṅgha. In Sanskrit he is called Vakkula, which is translated as "Good Appearance." Calling him "Bojuluo" is corrupt. After Vipaśyin Buddha entered parinirvāṇa, there was a monk who suffered severely from a headache. At that time, Good Appearance was a poor man; he took a harītakī fruit and offered it to the sick monk, and after taking it, the monk's illness was cured. Due to this gift of medicine, he enjoyed blissful fortune in heaven and among humans for ninety-one kalpas. Furthermore, because in a past life he was once a monk, he made a vow never to look at a woman's face, never to accept robes offered by a woman, and never to accept food from a woman's hand. When the venerable one's mother intensely missed her son, she entered the monastery to see him; Good Appearance was displeased and immediately sent his mother out of his room. Harboring slight resentment, the mother made an evil vow due to her son's filial impiety: "May I become his stepmother in a future life and torment him in every way." As a result, in accordance with her former vow, he was killed five times yet did not die. Going to the Buddha to leave home, he attained the holy fruit; having few desires and knowing contentment, a single coin welled up at his stūpa. Thus for this venerable one, whose mind had few desires and whose body did not wear double robes, the minor cause of offering good medicine brought the extraordinary retribution of being free from illness; hence it is called "bestowing medicine."