釋迦譜 3.13.4

3.13.4

時舍利弗慘然憂色。 即問尊者何故憂色。 答言。 汝今見此地中蟻子不耶。 對曰。 已見。 時舍利弗語須達言。 汝於過去毘婆尸佛。 亦於此地。 為彼世尊起立精舍。 而此蟻子在此中生。 尸棄佛時汝為彼佛。 亦於是中造立精舍。 而此蟻子亦在中生。 毘舍佛時。 汝為世尊於此地中起立精舍。 而此蟻子亦在中生。 拘留秦佛時。 亦為世尊在此地中起立精舍。 而是蟻子亦於此生。 迦那含牟尼佛時。 汝為世尊於此地中起立精舍。 而此蟻子亦在中生。 迦葉佛時。 汝亦為佛。 於此地中起立精舍。 而此蟻子亦在中生。 乃至今日九十一劫。 受一種身不得解脫。 生死長遠。 唯福為要不可不種。 是時須達悲心憐傷。 經地已竟起立精舍。 為佛作窟以妙栴檀用為香泥。 別房住止千二百處。 凡百二十處。 別打揵稚施設已竟。 欲往請佛復自思惟。 上有國王應當令知。 若不啟白儻有瞋恨。 即往白王。 我為世尊已起精舍。 唯願大王遣使請佛。 時王聞已遣使者。 詣王舍城請佛及僧。 唯願世尊臨赴舍衛。 爾時世尊與諸四眾。 前後圍繞放大光明。 震動天地至舍衛國。 所經亭舍悉於中止。 道次度人無有限量。 漸漸來近舍衛城邊一切大集。 持諸供具迎侍世尊。 到國至廣博處。 放大光明遍照三千大千世界。 足指按地地皆震動。 城中伎樂不鼓自鳴。 盲視聾聽啞語軁申。 癃殘拘癖皆得具足。 一切人民男女大小。 覩斯瑞應歡喜踊躍。 來詣佛所十八億人。 都悉集聚。 爾時世尊。 隨病投藥為說妙法。 宿緣所應各得道迹。 有得須陀洹斯陀含。 阿那含阿羅漢者。 有種辟支佛因緣者。 有發無上正真道意者。 各各歡喜奉行。 佛告阿難。 今此園地須達所買。 林樹花果祇陀所有。 二人同心共立精舍。 應當與號。 太子祇陀．樹給孤獨園。 名字流布傳示後世（須達齊言善溫）雜阿含經云。 給孤獨長者疾病。 佛往看疾。 記其得阿那含果。 乃至命終生兜率天。 為兜率天子。 作是念。 我不應久住於此。 當往見世尊。 作是念已如力士屈伸臂頃。 於兜率天沒現於佛前。 稽首佛足退坐一面。 時給孤獨天子。 身放光明遍照祇樹給孤獨園。 而說偈讚即沒不現（增一阿含經云。 阿那邠坻太子白世尊言。 我是須達又名阿那邠坻）。

At that moment, Śāriputra had a somber, sorrowful expression. [Sudatta] asked: "Venerable One, why do you have a sorrowful expression?" He replied: "Do you now see these ants in the ground?" He answered: "I see them." Śāriputra said to Sudatta: "Under the past Buddha Vipaśyin, you also built a monastery for that World-Honoured One on this very ground, and these ants were born in it. At the time of Buddha Śikhin, you also built a monastery for that Buddha in this very place, and these ants were also born in it. At the time of Buddha Viśvabhū, you built a monastery for the World-Honoured One on this ground, and these ants were also born in it. At the time of Buddha Krakucchanda, you also built a monastery for the World-Honoured One on this ground, and these ants were also born here. At the time of Buddha Kanakamuni, you built a monastery for the World-Honoured One on this ground, and these ants were also born in it. At the time of Buddha Kāśyapa, you also built a monastery for the Buddha on this ground, and these ants were also born in it. Down to today, through ninety-one kalpas, they have received this one kind of body and have not attained liberation. The round of birth and death is vast and long; merit alone is essential and must not fail to be planted." At that time, Sudatta felt grief and compassion. Having finished measuring the ground, he built the monastery. He made a chamber for the Buddha, using exquisite sandalwood as fragrant plaster. There were one thousand two hundred individual living quarters, with ghaṇṭās separately struck in all one hundred and twenty places. The arrangements having been completed, he wished to go and invite the Buddha, but reflected again: "Above me is the king; he should be informed. If I do not report it, he might harbor resentment." He then went to tell the king: "I have already built a monastery for the World-Honoured One. I only request that the Great King dispatch a messenger to invite the Buddha." Having heard this, the king dispatched a messenger to Rājagṛha to invite the Buddha and the saṅgha: "We only pray that the World-Honoured One will deign to visit Śrāvastī." Then the World-Honoured One, surrounded before and behind by the fourfold assembly, radiated a great light that shook heaven and earth, traveling to the country of Śrāvastī. At all the rest stations along the way he stopped, and those he delivered along the road were boundless. As he gradually drew near to the outskirts of the city of Śrāvastī, all the people gathered in a great crowd, holding various offerings to welcome and attend upon the World-Honoured One. Arriving at a broad and spacious open place in the country, he emitted a great light that illuminated the trichiliocosm completely. When his toes pressed the earth, the ground all trembled. The musical instruments in the city sounded on their own without being struck. The blind saw, the deaf heard, the mute spoke, the hunched straightened, and the crippled and lame were all made whole. All the people, men and women, young and old, rejoiced and leaped with joy upon seeing these auspicious omens. Eighteen hundred million people came to where the Buddha was, all assembling together. The World-Honoured One then administered medicine according to the illness, preaching the wondrous Dharma for them. According to what their past karmic conditions warranted, each attained the traces of the path: some attained [the fruit of] stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner, or arhat; some planted the karmic causes for becoming a pratyekabuddha; and some gave rise to the resolve for unsurpassable, true, and correct enlightenment. Each rejoiced and practiced accordingly. The Buddha said to Ānanda: "Now, this garden land was bought by Sudatta, while the grove, trees, flowers, and fruits belong to Jeta. With one mind, the two persons jointly built the monastery. It should be named 'Prince Jeta's Grove and Anāthapiṇḍada's Park', so that this name may circulate and be transmitted to future generations." (In the language of Qi, "Sudatta" means "good warmth".) The Saṃyuktāgama says: "When the elder Anāthapiṇḍada was sick, the Buddha went to visit his illness and prophesied that he would attain the fruit of a non-returner. Then, when his life ended, he was born in the Tuṣita heaven as a son of heaven in Tuṣita. He thought: 'I should not stay here long; I should go see the World-Honoured One.' Having thought this, in the time it takes a strong man to bend and extend his arm, he vanished from the Tuṣita heaven and appeared before the Buddha, bowed his head to the Buddha's feet, and sat down to one side. Then the son of heaven Anāthapiṇḍada emitted light from his body that illuminated the Jetavana Anāthapiṇḍadārāma completely, and after uttering verses of praise, he vanished and was no longer seen." (The Ekottarikāgama says: "Prince Anāthapiṇḍada said to the World-Honoured One, 'I am Sudatta, also named Anāthapiṇḍada.'")