佛祖統紀 30.57

30.57

Next is the disaster of water destroying the Second Dhyāna: when the disaster arises, beings in the hells, hungry ghosts, animals, the human destinies of the four continents, and the six desire-realm heavens gradually attain rebirth in the Second Dhyāna. In the Second Dhyāna, a devaputra then spontaneously attains the Third Dhyāna samādhi; the other devas, hearing of this, all enter this samādhi and attain rebirth in the Third Dhyāna. At this time, a co-arising water element arises in the Second Dhyāna to destroy the receptacle world, just as water dissolves salt, submerging everything at once. (Some say that from the sky at the edge of the Third Dhyāna, boiling hot ash-water suddenly rains down; some say that from the water disc below, water gushes and surges upward.) This is the water disaster destroying the Second Dhyāna. After the water disaster has passed, it is empty for twenty small kalpas as before. As before, great clouds rain down, and the wind blowing the water-froth forms the palaces of the Ābhāsvara Heaven, and downwards to the hells, which are formed thereafter.