佛祖統紀 2.26

2.26

時菩薩乘六牙白象發兜率宮（按普耀經云。沸宿應下。化為白象。瑞應經云。化乘六牙白象。貫日之精○沸宿即鬼宿也）放大光明普照十方。以四月八日明星出時降神母胎（向曉盛明。故曰明星。即鬼宿也）時摩耶夫人眠寤之際。見六牙白象騰空而來。從右脇入（按普耀經云所以處右者所行不左也）覺已白王為說瑞相。王召婆羅門占之。曰今此夫人胎中之子。必是正覺之瑞。若不出家當為輪王。夫人日更修行六波羅蜜。天獻飲食。不樂人間之味。時兜率天眾念言。菩薩已生淨飯王宮。我等亦當下生人間。得先聽法。於是諸天下生。數至九十九億。又他化自在天。下至四天王。上至色界天。與其眷屬。亦皆下生。不可稱計（因果經）有一天子。名曰速往至諸地獄。大聲唱言。菩薩從兜率天。下住母胎。汝輩速發誓願。求生人間。地獄眾生聞此聲已。各各相覩。復見光明捨地獄身。即生人中。所有大千世界。往昔已來種善根者。皆來於此迦毘羅城。四面託生（佛本行經○小機所見託胎相）。

At that time, the Bodhisattva mounted a six-tusked white elephant and departed from Tuṣita Palace (According to the Puyao jing, it says: When the asterism Tiṣya was in conjunction, he transformed into a white elephant. The Ruiying jing says: He transformed and mounted a six-tusked white elephant, penetrating the essence of the sun. Tiṣya is the asterism Gui). He emitted a great beam of light that illuminated the ten directions everywhere, and on the eighth day of the fourth month at the time when the morning star appeared, he descended his spirit into the mother's womb (Growing bright toward dawn, it is thus called the morning star; that is, the asterism Gui). At that time, when Queen Māyā was between sleeping and waking, she saw a six-tusked white elephant soaring through the air and entering through her right flank (According to the Puyao jing, the reason it enters the right is because his actions are never perverse). Having awakened, she reported it to the king and described the auspicious sign. The king summoned a brāhmaṇa to divine it, who said: 'The child in the queen's womb now is certainly an auspicious sign of sambodhi. If he does not leave home, he will become a wheel-turning king.' Daily, the queen increasingly cultivated the six pāramitās; the gods offered food and drink, and she took no delight in the tastes of the human world. At that time, the multitude of Tuṣita heaven thought: 'The Bodhisattva has already been born in the palace of King Śuddhodana; we too should descend to be born in the human world so that we may be the first to hear the Dharma.' Thereupon, the devas descending to be born numbered up to ninety-nine koṭis. Furthermore, from the Paranirmitavaśavartin Heaven down to the Four Heavenly Kings, and up to the heavens of the form realm, they and their retinues also all descended to be born, beyond reckoning (Sūtra of Cause and Effect). There was a devaputra named Swift Messenger who went to the various hells and cried out in a loud voice: 'The Bodhisattva has descended from Tuṣita heaven and dwells in his mother's womb! You all must swiftly generate vows to seek rebirth in the human realm!' When the sentient beings of the hells heard this voice, they each looked at one another; seeing the light again, they cast off their hellish bodies and were immediately born among humans. All those in the great trichiliocosm who had planted roots of good since the past all came to this city of Kapila to take birth on all sides (Sūtra of the Buddha's Former Deeds; phase of entrusting to the womb as seen by those of small faculty).