[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋迦譜](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040) › 5.28 # 釋迦譜 5.28 釋迦譜 5.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5.28) 爾時佛與阿難。入舍衛城乞食。見群小兒於道中戲。各聚地土。用作舍宅倉庫財寶五穀。有一小兒遙見佛來。敬心內發歡喜踊躍。即取倉中土為穀者。便以手探欲用施佛。身小不及語一小兒。我登汝上以穀布施。小兒歡喜報言可爾。即躡肩上以土奉佛。佛下鉢低頭受土。受已授與阿難持此土以塗我房。阿難食後以土塗佛房地。齊得一遍其土便盡。佛告阿難。向小兒緣施此土。我般涅槃百歲之後。當作國王字阿輸迦（阿育之別名也）其次小兒當作大臣。共領閻浮提一切國土。興顯三寶廣設供養。分布舍利遍閻浮提。起八萬四千塔。阿難歡喜重白佛言。如來先昔造何功德。而乃有此多塔之報。佛言。過去有國王。名波塞奇。典閻浮提八萬四千國。時世有佛名曰沸沙。波塞奇王與諸臣民。供養於佛及比丘僧。四事供養時王心念。邊小諸國皆悉偏僻。人民之類無由修福。今當圖畫佛之形像。分布諸國咸得供養。作是念已。即召畫師勅使圖畫。時諸畫師來至佛所。看佛相好欲得畫之。適畫一處忘失餘處。重復觀看復次下手。畫一忘一不能使成。時波塞奇調和眾彩。手自為畫一像以為摸法。於是畫師。乃依圖畫八萬四千像布與諸國。諸小國王皆得供養。時波塞奇我今身是。以此緣故。常得三十二相殊特之身。般涅槃後。得此八萬四千諸塔。 > At that time, the Buddha and Ānanda entered the city of Śrāvastī to beg for alms. They saw a group of young children playing in the road. Each gathered soil from the ground and used it to make houses, granaries, treasures, and the five grains. One child saw the Buddha coming from afar. A reverent mind arose within him, and he leaped for joy. He immediately took soil from a granary that served as grain, reached in with his hand, and wished to offer it to the Buddha. Because his body was small and could not reach, he said to another child, "I will climb upon you to offer this grain." The child rejoiced and replied, "You may do so." Thereupon, stepping upon his shoulders, he offered the soil to the Buddha. The Buddha lowered his bowl and bowed his head to receive the soil. Having received it, he handed it to Ānanda, \[saying,\] "Take this soil and plaster my chamber with it." After eating, Ānanda plastered the ground of the Buddha's chamber with the soil. It was spread just once when the soil was exhausted. The Buddha told Ānanda, "Because of this child offering this soil, one hundred years after my parinirvāṇa he will become a king named Aśoka (another name for Ayue). The second child will become a great minister. Together they will rule over all the lands of Jambudvīpa, elevate and manifest the Three Jewels, broadly arrange offerings, distribute the relics throughout Jambudvīpa, and erect eighty-four thousand stupas." Ānanda rejoiced and asked the Buddha again, "What merit did the Tathāgata cultivate in the past to obtain this retribution of having so many stupas?" The Buddha said, "In the past there was a king named Paseqi (Prasenajit) who ruled over the eighty-four thousand states of Jambudvīpa. At that time, there was a Buddha in the world named Puṣya. King Paseqi, together with all his ministers and common people, made offerings of the four requisites to that Buddha and the sangha of bhikṣus. At that time, the king thought to himself, 'The remote and small states are all secluded and distant, and their peoples have no means by which to cultivate merit. I should now paint images of the Buddha's form and distribute them among all the states so that all may make offerings.' Having formed this thought, he immediately summoned painters and ordered them to paint \[the Buddha\]. The painters then came to the Buddha's place. They looked upon the Buddha's major and minor marks, wishing to paint them, but as soon as they painted one part, they forgot the other parts. They looked again and set their hands to it once more, but as they painted one, they forgot another, and they could not bring it to completion. At that time, Paseqi blended the various pigments and with his own hands painted one image to serve as a model. Thereupon, following this image, the painters painted eighty-four thousand images and distributed them among all the states, and the kings of all the small states were all able to make offerings. That King Paseqi was indeed myself in a former body. On account of this cause, I always obtain this extraordinary body with the thirty-two marks, and after my parinirvāṇa, I obtain these eighty-four thousand stupas." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5.27) - [Next: 5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5.29) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040~en-mt.5.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2040.5.28) · Pramāṇa