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答：實未挑眼，其事云何？謂佛昔日為菩薩時，曾作國王名一切施，能滿一切來求者意，天上人中此名流布。時天帝釋即往驗之，知其施意，便自化作婆羅門身，來詣王前呪願二言：願常尊勝，王言梵志來何所求？

Answer: In reality, he did not gouge out his eyes. How was this? In the past, when the Buddha was a bodhisattva, he was once a king named Sarvadada, capable of fulfilling the desires of all who came to ask, and this renown spread in the heavens and among humanity. At that time, Śakra, Lord of the Gods, went to test him. Knowing his intention to give, he transformed himself into the body of a brahmin, came before the king, and pronounced a blessing: 'May you always be revered and victorious!' The king asked: 'Brahmin, what have you come to seek?'