起信論疏筆削記 15.38

15.38

如彼經第三說，五百釋子，昔毘婆尸佛像法之中，有長者子名日月德，有五百子不信佛法，同遇身病，父即教令稱三寶名，敬父教故，三稱未畢，而各命終。以稱佛故，生四天王天。天上命盡，以邪見因墮大地獄，以苦所逼，憶然之教，乃稱佛名。以念佛故，從地獄出，生貧賤家。如是尸棄乃至迦葉佛出，但聞佛名，不見佛形。以聞如是六佛名故，生釋種中，宿業因緣，見佛灰色。佛令稱七佛及彌勒名號，并稱其父，雨淚懺悔，乃見如來金色相好，成阿羅漢。

As the third fascicle of that sūtra explains, in the past, during the semblance dharma of Vipaśyin Buddha, there was an elder's son among the five hundred Śākyas named Sūryacandraprabhā (Riyuede) who had five hundred sons who did not believe in the Buddha-Dharma. When they all fell ill at the same time, their father instructed them to recite the names of the Three Jewels. Out of respect for their father's instruction, before they had finished reciting three times, each died. Because of reciting [the name of] the Buddha, they were born in the Heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings. When their life in heaven ended, due to the cause of wrong views, they fell into the great hells. Being pressed by suffering, they remembered their father's instruction and recited the Buddha's name. Because of recollecting the Buddha, they emerged from the hells and were born into poor and lowly families. In this way, when Śikhin up to Kāśyapa Buddha appeared, they only heard the Buddha's name and did not see the Buddha's form. Because they heard the names of these six Buddhas, they were born into the Śākya clan; due to past karmic causes and conditions, they saw the Buddha as ash-colored. The Buddha instructed them to recite the names of the seven Buddhas and Maitreya, as well as their father's name, and to shed tears in repentance; only then did they see the Tathāgata's golden major and minor marks and become arhats.