四分律行事鈔資持記 1.205

1.205

《摩耶經》。彼因摩耶夫人問阿難法幾時滅？阿難次第明千五百年事，並從佛聞。彼云：始從結集，終至七百年龍樹出世，滅邪見幢，然正法炬。（非今正意，故鈔不引。）初二句八百歲事。奴下二句，九百歲事。不下一句，一千歲事。毀下，千一百歲事（又此年諸比丘如俗行媒嫁事）千二百歲中，比丘及尼作非梵行；若有子息，男為比丘，女為比丘尼（鈔略此年）。袈裟下，千三百歲事。（今時袈裟多從紫染，豈唯條白，法滅之驗矣。）貪下，千四百歲事。千五百歲，俱睒彌國三藏，與羅漢弟子互殺；惡魔外道，競破塔寺，殺害比丘；一切經藏，阿耨達龍王悉持入海，於是佛法滅盡。（此據拘睒彌一國為言。或有處說五千年，或正像各千年，末法萬年等；或六萬年七萬年等。並眾生業緣所見異耳。）

The Sūtra of Mahāmāyā: there, because Queen Māyā asked Ānanda when the Dharma would be extinguished, Ānanda sequentially explained the events of fifteen hundred years, all heard from the Buddha. That text says: starting from the compilation and concluding with the emergence into the world of Nāgārjuna in the seven-hundredth year, who destroyed the banner of heterodox views and lit the torch of the True Dharma. (This is not the main point at present, so the manual does not cite it.) The initial two lines concern the events of eight hundred years. The two lines from "slaves…" down concern the events of nine hundred years. The line from "not…" down concerns the events of one thousand years. From "destroying…" down concerns the events of eleven hundred years (also in this year bhikṣus acted like laypeople in matchmaking and marriage). In the twelve-hundredth year, bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs engaged in unchaste conduct; if they had children, males became bhikṣus and females became bhikṣuṇīs (the manual omits this year). From "kaṣāya…" down concerns the events of thirteen hundred years. (Nowadays kaṣāyas are mostly dyed purple; how could it only be white stripes? This is proof of the extinction of the Dharma.) From "greed…" down concerns the events of fourteen hundred years. In the fifteen-hundredth year, the Tripiṭaka master of the country of Kauśāmbī and his arhat disciples killed one another; evil demons and non-Buddhists vied in destroying stupas and monasteries and killing bhikṣus; the dragon king Anavatapta took all the sūtra piṭakas into the sea, whereupon the Buddha's Dharma became completely extinct. (This is spoken in terms of the single country of Kauśāmbī. Some places speak of five thousand years, or one thousand years each for the True and Semblance [Dharma], ten thousand years for the Final Dharma, and so forth; or sixty thousand years, seventy thousand years, and so forth. These are all differences seen according to the karmic conditions of sentient beings.)