[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [成唯識論演祕](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833) › 1.554 # 成唯識論演祕 1.554 成唯識論演祕 1.554 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.554](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1.554) 依天親菩薩傳敘此師事，如《燈》具引。又相傳云：劫初之時有一外道，舊《百論》等名伽毘羅，此人修道得五通仙，造略數論已知世無常，身不久住，恐他於後破所造論，遂欲留身久住與他論難，往自在天所請延壽法。自在天云：汝可往林食餘甘子，即可久住。其餘甘子未熟之時，其色乃青；若已熟者，其色黃白，此即仙藥。此藥初食酸苦少味，食已若飲冷水，口中甘味猶如食蜜，因以名焉。仙獲此藥乃恐無常，更往天所復請延年，天云：斷為一物最得長壽，天遂變仙為一方石，可一丈餘，在頻陀山餘甘子林。陳那菩薩造《因明論》，成以宗因喻破其數論，彼仙門徒莫能通者，將陳那難辭書之於石，石尋書答。陳那知已，與仙門屬共往石所，書難在石同對記之，明旦來看，尋書解訖。如是復書，日日往看，至二、三日方始能解，陳那復書七日方解，如是復書更不能釋。其石流汗大吼，振碎迸在空中。於是天神掌捧陳那住在空中，說頌讚歎。時眾既覩，於是陳那所造諸論盛行於世。 > Following the Biography of Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, the matters of this master are recounted, as cited in full in the Liaoyi deng. Furthermore, tradition says: At the beginning of the kalpa, there was a non-Buddhist, named Kapila in the old Śata-śāstra and elsewhere. This person cultivated the path and became an immortal with the five supernormal knowledges. Having composed an abridged Sāṃkhya treatise, he already knew the world is impermanent and the body would not abide long. Fearing that others in later times would refute the treatise he had composed, he wished to preserve his body to abide for a long time to debate with others, and went to Maheśvara to request the method for prolonging life. Maheśvara said: "You may go to the forest and eat the myrobalan (āmalaka); then you can abide long." When this āmalaka fruit is not yet ripe, its colour is green; when it is already ripe, its colour is yellow-white; this is an elixir of immortality. When this medicine is first eaten, it is sour, bitter, and has little flavour; after eating it, if one drinks cold water, the sweet flavour in the mouth is just like eating honey, hence it is so named. Having obtained this medicine, the immortal still feared impermanence, and went again to the god to request prolonging his years. The god said: "To be severed into a single object achieves the longest life." The god then transformed the immortal into a square stone, about ten cubits in size, located in the āmalaka forest on the Vindhya mountains. When Bodhisattva Dignāga composed the Hetuvidyā treatises, he established the thesis, reason, and example to refute their Sāṃkhya doctrines, and none of that immortal's disciples could answer. They wrote Dignāga's refutations onto the stone, and the stone immediately wrote answers. When Dignāga learned of this, he went together with the immortal's disciples to the stone, wrote refutations on the stone, and faced it with them to record it; coming to see it the next morning, it had immediately written solutions. He wrote again like this, going daily to see it, and only after two or three days could it begin to solve them. When Dignāga wrote again, it took seven days to solve them; writing again like this, it could no longer explain. The stone sweated, roared loudly, shattered, and burst into the sky. Thereupon a deva held Dignāga up in the air in the palm of his hand and spoke verses in praise. When the assembly had witnessed this, the various treatises composed by Dignāga became widely prevalent in the world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.553](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1.553) - [Next: 1.555](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1.555) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833~en-mt.1.554) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1.554](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1833.1.554) · Pramāṇa