釋迦譜 1.97

1.97

觀佛三昧經云。魔王大怒遍勅六天。并諸八部。往瞿曇所是時諸鬼。猶如雲赴。或有諸鬼。首如牛頭。頭四十耳。耳生鐵箭。末爛上起。復有諸鬼。首如狐頭有十千眼聲如霹靂。曠野鬼神大將軍等。一頸六頭。胸有六面。膝頭兩面。體毛如箭。奮身射人。張眼爛赤。血出流下。疾走而到。魔告諸鬼。瞿曇善人或能知呪。當興四兵。化作四兵列狀如林甚可怖畏。直從空下至道樹邊。魔復更念。此眾或不能降伏瞿曇。復脫寶冠擬地。當閻羅王宮上。告勅諸鬼。汝等獄卒及閻羅王。阿鼻地獄刀輪劍戟火車爐炭。一切都舉向閻浮提。魔王振吼勅諸兵眾。速害瞿曇。上震火雷雨熱鐵丸。刀輪武器交橫空中。然其火箭不近菩薩。是時菩薩。徐舉眉間毫擬阿鼻地獄。令罪人見白毛流水澍如車軸。大火暫滅。自憶前世所作諸罪。心得清涼稱南無佛。以是因緣受罪畢訖。直生人中。魔見是相顦顇懊惱。忽然還宮。白毫直至六天。見白毛孔諸寶蓮花過去七佛在其花上。如是白毛上至無色。遍照一切如頗梨鏡。八萬四千天女視波旬身。狀如燋木。但瞻菩薩白毫相光。無數天子天女皆發無上菩提道意。

The Guanfo sanmei jing says: The Demon King was greatly enraged, and sent an order everywhere throughout the six heavens and to all the eight classes of beings to go to Gautama's place. At that time, the ghosts converged like clouds. Some ghosts had heads like ox heads with forty ears, out of which sprouted iron arrows with molten tips shooting upward. Other ghosts had heads like fox heads with ten thousand eyes, their voices like thunderclaps. Great generals of the wilderness ghosts and spirits had six heads on a single neck, six faces on their chests, two faces upon their knees, and body hair like arrows, violently shaking their bodies to shoot at people, their eyes opened wide, raw and red, with blood streaming down. They rushed forward and arrived. Māra told the ghosts, 'Gautama is a virtuous man and may know spells. We must raise the fourfold army.' They transformed into a fourfold army arrayed like a forest, exceedingly terrifying, descending straight from the air to the side of the bodhi tree. Māra thought again, 'This host may still be unable to subdue Gautama.' He then took off his precious crown and aimed it at the ground, right above King Yama's palace, ordering the ghosts: 'You hell wardens and King Yama, raise up all the sword-wheels, swords, halberds, fire-chariots, furnaces, and burning coals of the Avīci Hell toward Jambudvīpa!' The Demon King roared loudly and ordered the soldiers to swiftly destroy Gautama. Above, fiery thunder cracked, raining down hot iron pellets; sword-wheels and weapons crisscrossed in the air, but the fiery arrows did not approach the Bodhisattva. At that time, the Bodhisattva gently raised the hair between his eyebrows and directed it toward the Avīci Hell, causing the sinners to see a stream of water flowing from the white hair, pouring like cart-axles. The great fires were temporarily extinguished, and they remembered the sins committed in their past lives; their minds gained coolness, and they cried out, 'Namo Buddhāya!' Through this cause and condition, their punishment came to an end, and they were reborn straight into the human realm. Seeing this sign, Māra was withered and distressed, and suddenly returned to his palace. The white ūrṇā reached straight up to the six heavens, where from the pore of the white hair precious lotus flowers were seen, with the past seven Buddhas upon the flowers. In this way, the white hair reached up to the formless realm, shining everywhere like a crystal mirror. The eighty-four thousand heavenly maidens looked upon Pāpīyān's body, which appeared like charred wood; they only gazed upon the light of the mark of the Bodhisattva's white ūrṇā hair. Countless devaputras and devakanyās all generated the thought of supreme bodhi.