釋迦氏譜 1.199

1.199

雙卷泥洹云。諸王嚴四兵至。請以義和。不者力爭。有婆羅門曰。如來遺身廣利一切。當分供養前以上牙。送阿闍世以副傾遲。以石瓶塗蜜用分八國了。已請著瓶者議以賞之。又乞地灰炭四十九斛。依起四十九塔。諸王得分便起八塔。瓶灰炭及髮為十一（髮生時者）初未分前。天帝與諸龍王來索舍利。若不見與力足相伏。即共三分一分諸天。一分龍王。一分八國。當維耶處起寶塔高四十九仞。阿育王經云。諸王分已各自數得八萬四千粒舍利。佛一口髭無敢取者。以阿闍世初來之時聞佛滅度。車中投地氣將欲絕。心重故持與之將還在道。難陀龍來道逢力爭以髭與之。於須彌山下。起水高八萬四千里起水精塔。及阿育收舍利。勅鬼作鐵網。縱海欲縛龍王。龍怖伺阿育睡捧入海宮。見塔高大便以言謝曰。佛與我要乃至劫盡。所有經戒袈裟應器皆藏此塔。彌勒來下當復出著。故不壞也。阿育聞此謝而上出。

The Two-Fascicle Nirvāṇa Sūtra states: The kings arrayed their fourfold armies and arrived, requesting a peaceful settlement through righteousness, failing which they would contend by force. A brāhmaṇa said: 'The Tathāgata's bequeathed body broadly benefits all; it should be divided and worshipped.' First, the upper canine tooth was presented and sent to Ajātaśatru to fulfill his earnest yearning. With a stone jar coated with honey, [the relics] were divided among the eight kingdoms. When finished, he asked for the jar that held them, and by consensus it was rewarded to him. He also begged for forty-nine hu of ashes and charcoal from the ground, in accordance with which forty-nine stupas were erected. The kings having obtained their shares, eight stupas were built. With the jar, ashes, charcoal, and hair, there were eleven (the hair being that from when he was alive). Initially, before the division, Śakra and dragon kings came to demand relics, saying that if not given, their strength was sufficient to subdue [them]. Thereupon they were divided into three parts: one part for the devas, one part for the dragon kings, and one part for the eight kingdoms. At Vaiśālī, a jewel stupa was erected forty-nine fathoms high. The Aśoka Sūtra states: After the kings divided them, each counted and obtained eighty-four thousand grains of relics. There was a single whisker of the Buddha that no one dared take. Because when Ajātaśatru first came, upon hearing of the Buddha's extinction, he threw himself from his chariot to the ground and was near death, [the brāhmaṇa] took pity on his deep devotion and gave it to him to carry back on his way. The dragon Nanda came, met him on the way, contended by force, and took the whisker. Beneath Mount Sumeru, he raised the water eighty-four thousand li high and erected a crystal stupa. When Aśoka collected the relics, he ordered spirits to make an iron net and cast it across the sea, wishing to bind the dragon king. Terrified, the dragon watched for Aśoka to fall asleep, carried him into the ocean palace, and showed him the stupa's height and grandeur. [Aśoka] then apologised, saying: 'The Buddha made a pact with me until the end of the kalpa. All the scriptures, precepts, kāṣāya robes, and alms bowls are hidden in this stupa. When Maitreya descends, they will be brought out and worn again; hence it cannot be destroyed.' Hearing this, Aśoka apologised and returned above.