四分律行事鈔資持記 3.915

3.915

十三，《僧祇》明眾處燈，初教上燈。乃下，次示息燈。亦爾者，同上告僧。䩭，《尼鈔》作欹，以箸取物也。下文指廣，彼云：然燈時，當先照舍利，及形像前燈；禮拜已，當出滅之；乃至若多油者，廁屋中，當竟夜然；若油少者，人行斷，當滅之。次明供佛燈。今時所謂長明燈也；若佛有明暗，則當夜點晝滅；以無明暗，故不間晝夜。本無言念，謂施主期心；必有齊限，滅應無過。次引經證。彼十一云：佛在舍衛，有女名難陀，乞匃自活；見諸國王臣民，供養佛僧；自心思惟：我之宿罪，生處貧賤；雖遭福田，無有種子；便行乞丐，以俟微供；唯得一錢，指詣油家，具語所懷；油主憐愍，增倍與油；得已歡喜，足作一燈，奉上世尊；自立誓願：我令貧窮，用是小燈，供養於佛；以此功德，令戒來世，得智慧照，滅除一切眾生垢暗。作是誓已，禮佛而去；乃至竟夜，諸燈盡滅，唯此獨然；是時目連當次直日，欲取滅之；即舉手扇，復以衣扇；燈明不損，佛語目連：今此燈者，非汝聲聞所能傾動，正使四大海水以用灌之，毘嵐風吹之，亦不能滅；此是發大心人所施，佛說是已；難陀女復來，頭面作禮；佛即授記，於來世二阿僧祇劫，當得作佛，號曰燈光，十號具足。

Thirteenth: The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya explains lamps in communal areas; first, it teaches lighting the lamp. Below, "then..." next shows extinguishing the lamp. "It is also like this" means announcing to the Saṃgha as above. *Qū* (䩭) is written as *qī* (欹) in the *Bhikṣuṇī Manual*, which means picking up things with chopsticks. The text below refers to the detailed explanation, which says: When lighting lamps, one should first illuminate the śarīra and the lamps before images; having bowed, one should step back and extinguish them; and so forth, up to: if there is much oil, in the latrine it should burn through the night; if there is little oil, when people cease walking, it should be extinguished. Next, it explains lamps offered to the Buddha. This is what is now called the perpetual lamp; if the Buddha had light and dark, it should be lit at night and extinguished by day; because he has no light or dark, it does not pause day or night. "Originally having no intention" refers to the donor's expectation; if there was definitely a time limit, extinguishing it should incur no fault. Next, it cites a sūtra as proof. Fascicle eleven of that text says: When the Buddha was in Śrāvastī, there was a woman named Nandā who supported herself by begging. Seeing the kings, ministers, and people making offerings to the Buddha and the Saṃgha, she thought to herself: "Due to my past sins, I was born poor and base; though I have encountered the field of merit, I have no seed." Thereupon she went begging to prepare a modest offering. Having obtained only a single coin, she went directly to an oil vendor and related her wish in full. The oil vendor took pity on her and gave her double the amount of oil. Having obtained it, she was overjoyed, as it was enough to make a single lamp, which she offered to the World-Honoured One. She made a vow of her own: "I am impoverished, and use this small lamp to make an offering to the Buddha; by this merit, may I in future lives obtain the illumination of wisdom and eliminate the defiled darkness of all sentient beings!" Having made this vow, she bowed to the Buddha and departed. When the night ended, all the lamps were burned out, and this one alone remained burning. At that time, Maudgalyāyana was on duty for the day and wished to put it out; he raised his hand to fan it, and again fanned it with his robe, but the lamp's light was not diminished. The Buddha said to Maudgalyāyana: "This lamp cannot be extinguished by you śrāvakas; even if the water of the four great oceans were poured on it, or the vairambha wind blew on it, it could not be extinguished. This was offered by someone who gave rise to the great aspiration [of bodhicitta]." After the Buddha said this, the woman Nandā came again and bowed her head to the ground in homage. The Buddha immediately bestowed a prophecy upon her: that after two asaṃkhyeya kalpas in the future, she would become a Buddha named Light of the Lamp (Dīpa-prabha), complete with the ten epithets.