唯識二十論述記 2.316

2.316

述曰：此佛問詞。彈宅迦者，真諦云檀陀柯，此云治罰，治罰罪人處也。今罰罪人，尚置其內。《中阿含》云：是王名也。有摩登伽婦人，是婆羅門女，極有容貌，聟為仙人，名摩登伽，於山中坐，婦為其夫營辦食送。檀陀訶王入山戲遊，逢見此婦，問是何人。有人答言：是仙人婦。王云：仙人離欲，何用婦為？遂令提取將還宮內，仙至食時，望婦不來，心生恚恨，借問餘人，餘人為說，是王將去。仙往王所，殷勤求覓，不肯還云：汝是仙人，何須畜婦？仙言：我食索此婦人。王便不還。仙人意憤，語其婦曰：汝一心念我，勿暫捨我，今夜欲令此國土破壞。仙人夜念，時雨大石，王及國人一切皆死，俄頃成山。此婦一心念彼仙人，唯身不死，還就山中。本是彈宅迦王國，今成山林，從本為名，名彼林也。人物皆盡，故名空寂。舊人解云：諸仙修定處名空寂。

The commentary says: These are the Buddha's words of inquiry. As for "Daṇḍaka", Paramārtha translates it as "Dandake", rendered here as "punishment", meaning the place where criminals are punished. Even now, when punishing criminals, they are placed within it. The Madhyama-āgama says: It is a king's name. There was a Mātaṅga woman, a brahmin girl, who was extremely beautiful. Her husband was an ascetic named Mātaṅga, who sat [meditating] in the mountains. The wife prepared food for her husband and delivered it. King Daṇḍaka entered the mountains for amusement, encountered this woman, and asked who she was. Someone answered: "She is an ascetic's wife." The king said: "Ascetics are free from desire; what use does he have for a wife?" He then ordered her seized and brought back to his palace. When mealtime arrived and the ascetic looked for his wife who did not come, resentment arose in his mind. Inquiring of others, they told him that the king had taken her away. The ascetic went to the king's place and earnestly sought her back, but the king refused to return her, saying: "You are an ascetic; why do you need to keep a wife?" The ascetic said: "She brings me food." The king still would not return her. The ascetic, enraged in mind, said to his wife: "Focus your mind entirely on me; do not abandon me for an instant. Tonight I will cause this country to be destroyed." The ascetic concentrated his thoughts at night, and then a rain of great stones fell; the king and all the people of the country died, and in an instant it became a mountain. Because this woman focused her mind entirely on that ascetic, her body alone did not die, and she returned to the mountains. Originally it was King Daṇḍaka's realm; now it became a mountain forest, named after its origin as that forest. Since people and things were all exhausted, it is called "emptied and desolate". An older commentator explains: The place where ascetics cultivate concentration is called "empty and desolate".