瑜伽論記 2.86

2.86

Now, following the preceding text, let us provisionally speak of beings in the state of being already born. Regarding the 'neither' category, [exemplified by] the Tathāgata's emissary: as related in the Nirvāṇa Sūtra, when the mother of the elder Jyotiṣka was pregnant with Jyotiṣka, the Buddha prophesied that the child would be a boy. Later, while he was still unborn, the mother passed away. Non-Buddhists mocked and criticized the Buddha's prophecy as having failed. On the day the mother's body was cremated, the Buddha ordered an emissary to enter the fire and retrieve the child. Although the mother had died, her child did not perish; by the Buddha's power, the fire did not burn the emissary. Because the Buddha had only prophesied concerning the child and not the mother, his words were not false.