釋迦譜 2.28

2.28

雜寶藏經云。佛在迦毘羅衛國。入城乞食到難陀舍。會值難陀與婦作䊋香塗眉間。聞佛門中欲出外看。婦共要言出看如來。使我額上䊋未乾頃。便還入來。難陀即出見佛作禮。取鉢向舍盛食奉佛。佛不為取過與阿難。阿難亦不為取。阿難語言。汝從誰得鉢還與本處。於是持鉢詣佛。至尼拘樓精舍。佛即勅剃師與難陀剃髮。難陀不肯。怒拳而語剃髮人言。迦毘羅衛一切人民。汝今盡可剃其髮也。佛問剃髮者。何以不剃。答言。畏故不敢為剃。佛共阿難自至其邊。難陀畏故不敢不剃。雖得剃髮恒欲還家。佛常將行不能得去。後於一日次守房舍。而自歡喜。今真得便可還家去。待佛眾僧都去之後我當還家。佛入城後作是念言。當為汲水令滿澡瓶。然後還歸。尋時汲水一瓶適滿一瓶復翻。如是經時不能滿瓶。便作是言俱不可滿。使諸比丘來還自汲。我今但著瓶屋中而棄之去。即閉房門。適一扇閉一扇復開。適閉一戶一戶復開。便作是念俱不可閉。就置而去。縱使失諸比丘衣物。我饒財寶足有可償。即出僧房。而自思惟。佛必從此來。我則從彼異道而去。佛知其意亦異道來。遙見佛來大樹後藏。樹神舉樹在虛空中。露地而立。佛見難陀將還精舍。而問之言。汝念婦也。答言實爾。即將難陀向阿那波山上。又問難陀汝婦端正不。答言端正。山中有一老瞎獼猴。又復問言。汝婦孫陀利面首端正。何如此獼猴也。難陀懊惱便作念言。我婦端正人中少雙。佛今何故。以我之婦比瞎獼猴。佛復將至忉利天上。遍諸天宮而共觀看。見諸天子與諸天女共相娛樂。見一宮中有五百天女。無有天子。尋來問佛。佛言。汝自往問。難陀往問言。諸宮殿中盡有天子。此中何以獨無天子。諸女答言。閻浮提內佛弟難陀。佛逼使出家。以出家因緣。命終當生於此天宮。為我天子。難陀答言。即我身是。便欲即住。天女語言。我等是天汝今是人。還捨人壽更生此間。便可得住。便還佛所。以如上事。具白世尊。佛語難陀。汝婦端正。何如天女。難陀答言。比彼天女。如瞎獼猴比於我婦。佛將難陀還閻浮提。難陀為欲生天故勤加持戒。阿難爾時為說偈言。

The Zābǎozàng jīng says: The Buddha was in the country of Kapilavastu. Entering the city to beg for food, he arrived at Nanda’s house. It happened that Nanda was applying cosmetic paste between his wife’s eyebrows. Hearing the Buddha at the gate, he wished to go outside to look. His wife made an agreement with him, saying: "Go out to see the Tathāgata, but return inside before the paste on my forehead has dried." Nanda at once went out, saw the Buddha, and bowed in homage. He took the bowl into the house, filled it with food, and offered it to the Buddha. The Buddha would not take it from him, passing it along to Ānanda; Ānanda also would not take it from him. Ānanda said to him: "From whom did you obtain the bowl? Return it to where it came from." Thereupon, holding the bowl, he followed the Buddha, arriving at the Nyagrodha Monastery. The Buddha then ordered a barber to shave Nanda's hair. Nanda was unwilling; raising an angry fist, he said to the barber: "Of all the people of Kapilavastu, you may now go and shave everyone's hair!" The Buddha asked the barber: "Why do you not shave him?" He replied: "Because I am afraid, I do not dare shave him." The Buddha and Ānanda went to his side themselves. Because Nanda was afraid, he did not dare refuse to be shaved. Although he had his hair shaved, he constantly wished to return home. The Buddha always took him along, so he was unable to leave. Later, one day, it was his turn to guard the quarters, and he rejoiced to himself: "Now I truly have the opportunity to return home! I will wait until after the Buddha and the saṅgha of monks have all departed, and then I will return home." After the Buddha had entered the city, [Nanda] thought: "I should draw water to fill the washbasins, and only then return." Promptly he drew water, but just as one pitcher was filled, another pitcher overturned. Thus, though time passed, he could not fill the pitchers. He then said: "Neither can be filled; let the monks come back and draw it themselves. Now I will simply leave the pitchers in the room and abandon them to leave." He then shut the door of the chamber; just as one leaf of the door was shut, the other leaf opened again. Just as he shut one door, another door opened again. He then thought: "Neither can be shut; I will just leave them as they are and depart. Even if the robes and belongings of the monks are lost, I have abundant wealth and goods, fully enough to compensate for them." He immediately left the monastic cell, thinking to himself: "The Buddha will certainly come by this path; I will go by that different road." The Buddha, knowing his intention, also came by that different road. Seeing the Buddha coming from afar, [Nanda] hid behind a large tree. The tree deity lifted the tree into the air, and he stood out in the open. The Buddha, seeing Nanda, took him back to the monastery and asked him: "Are you longing for your wife?" He answered: "Truly so." [The Buddha] then took Nanda up Mount Anavatapta, and again asked Nanda: "Is your wife beautiful?" He answered: "She is beautiful." In the mountain there was an old blind monkey. He asked again: "Is your wife Sundarī’s face and appearance beautiful? How does she compare to this monkey?" Nanda was distressed and thought: "My wife is beautiful, with few equals among humans. Why does the Buddha now compare my wife to a blind monkey?" The Buddha again took him up to the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven, and together they looked through all the heavenly palaces. He saw all the devas amusing themselves with the heavenly maidens. In one palace, he saw five hundred heavenly maidens, but no deva. He quickly went to ask the Buddha. The Buddha said: "Go ask them yourself." Nanda went and asked: "In all the palaces there are devas; why is there alone no deva here?" The maidens replied: "In Jambudvīpa, there is the Buddha's brother Nanda, whom the Buddha constrained to leave the household life. Because of the cause and condition of leaving the household life, when his life ends he will be born in this heavenly palace to be our deva." Nanda answered: "I am that very person!" and wished to stay immediately. The heavenly maidens said: "We are devas, while you are currently a human. Return, abandon your human life, and be reborn here; then you may stay." He then returned to where the Buddha was, and related in full the matter as above to the World-Honoured One. The Buddha said to Nanda: "Is your wife beautiful? How does she compare to the heavenly maidens?" Nanda replied: "Compared to those heavenly maidens, she is like a blind monkey compared to my wife." The Buddha brought Nanda back to Jambudvīpa. For the sake of desiring rebirth in heaven, Nanda diligently observed the precepts. At that time, Ānanda spoke a verse for him: