[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 1.95 # 佛祖統紀 1.95 佛祖統紀 1.95 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.95) 夫姓者所以繫統百世使不別也。氏者。所以別子孫之所由出也。印度族姓。則有四流。一曰剎帝利者。王種也。二曰婆羅門者。淨行也。三曰吠奢者。商賈也（舊云毘舍）四曰戍陀羅者。眾人也（舊云首陀）凡茲四姓。前二是貴。後二是賤（此說出西域記）隨時所尚。佛生其中釋迦出剛強之世。託王種以振威。迦葉生善順之時。居淨行以標德（大論）昔阿僧祇劫。有菩薩為國王。父母早喪。遜國與弟。從婆羅門瞿曇學道。受瞿曇姓（本經。翻純熟。應法師。翻最勝。此皆從師德為義）乞食還國。人無識者。謂之小瞿曇。於城外甘蔗園中。以為精舍。賊盜官物。路由園過。捕盜尋迹。執小瞿曇。王令以木貫身射之。大瞿曇見。悲哀棺斂取血泥團之。還置精舍。著左右器。大瞿曇言。是道士若其至誠。願天神有知。使血化為人。却後十月。左化為男。右化為女。因名瞿曇氏純淑之姓（十二遊經）過去有轉輪聖王。名大自在（即第九族彌尸利）子孫相承。八萬四千王。最後王。名大茅草。垂老無子。委政大臣。剃髮出家。眾號王仙諸弟子時行乞食。王仙老不能行。遂以草籠盛懸樹上。慮虎狼也。獵人望見。謂是白鳥。乃射殺之。血滴於地。後生甘蔗二本。日炙開剖。一生童男。一生童女。弟子養護。以報諸臣。眾謂王種命相師占之。立名善生。號甘蔗王。女名善賢。立為第一妃。又以日炙甘蔗而生。亦名日種（菩薩本行）。 > Now, a surname (xing) is that by which the lineage of a hundred generations is bound together so that they do not diverge; a clan (shi) is that by which the branches from which sons and grandsons emerge are distinguished. As for the lineages and clans of India, there are four streams: the first is called kṣatriya, the royal caste; the second is called brāhmaṇa, those of pure conduct; the third is called vaiśya, the merchants (formerly called pishe); the fourth is called śūdra, the common multitude (formerly called shoutuo). Among these four castes, the former two are noble, and the latter two are low (this explanation comes from the \*Records of the Western Regions\*). Accompanying what is esteemed by the times, the Buddha was born among them. Śākyamuni appeared in an unyielding and fierce world, relying upon the royal caste to manifest majesty; Kāśyapa was born in a gentle and compliant time, dwelling in pure conduct to display virtue (\*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa\*). In the past, asaṃkhyeya kalpas ago, there was a bodhisattva who was a king. His parents having died early, he ceded the kingdom to his younger brother and studied the way under the brāhmaṇa Gautama, adopting the Gautama surname. (This scripture translates it as 'pure and mature'; Master Ying translates it as 'most supreme'; these both derive their meaning from the teacher's virtue.) Returning to his country to beg for food, no one recognized him, and they called him Little Gautama. He made a hermitage in a sugar-cane grove outside the city. Thieves stole royal property and passed through the grove along their route. Pursuing the thieves by following their tracks, \[the guards\] seized Little Gautama. The king ordered that his body be pierced with a wooden stake and shot with arrows. Big Gautama, seeing this, grieved, prepared him for burial, and gathered the blood into balls of mud. Taking them back to the hermitage, he placed them in vessels on the left and right. Big Gautama said: "If this practitioner was truly sincere, may the heavenly deities have knowledge and cause the blood to transform into human beings." After ten months, the left transformed into a boy, and the right transformed into a girl. Because of this, they were named the Gautama clan, the surname of 'pure and virtuous' (\*Twelve Wandering Sūtra\*). In the past, there was a wheel-turning holy king named Mahā-īśvara (namely, the ninth clan Miśrī). Sons and grandsons succeeded one after another for eighty-four thousand kings. The last king was named Great Kusha. Growing old without a son, he entrusted the administration to his ministers, shaved his hair, and left the household; the multitude styled him the Royal Rishi. When the disciples went to beg for food, the Royal Rishi was too old to walk, so they placed him in a grass basket and hung him from a tree, being anxious about tigers and wolves. A hunter, seeing him from afar, thought he was a white bird and shot and killed him. His blood dripped upon the ground, and later grew two stalks of sugar-cane. Warmed and split open by the sun, one produced a boy, and one produced a girl. The disciples nurtured and protected them, reporting this to the ministers. The multitude said they were of royal seed, and ordered a diviner to prognosticate them. He named \[the boy\] Sujāta, styled King Ikṣvāku (Sugar-cane King); the girl was named Bhadrā, and established as the first queen. Also, because they were born from sugar-cane warmed by the sun, they were also called the Solar Lineage (\*Bodhisattva-caryanidāna-sūtra\*). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.94) - [Next: 1.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.96) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.1.95) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.27) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [釋氏要覽](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.11) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.95) · Pramāṇa