[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) › [釋迦氏譜](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041) › 1.267 # 釋迦氏譜 1.267 釋迦氏譜 1.267 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.267](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1.267) 譬喻經云。宮中四事常供二萬沙門。有沙彌名端正年十三。現通噉梵志二萬人令受佛化。傳云。王問道人。殺害非理如何得滅。答曰。惟有起塔供僧赦獄濟乏。又以神力手掩日光。作八萬四千道所照處起塔。即壞七大塔取舍利。從龍取寶篋莊嚴具。勅鬼神於此洲滿一億家可立一塔。即以月十五日月蝕時。同時立八萬四千塔人眾咸慶。阿育王既立塔已往雞雀寺。優波崛多將眷屬。從摩偷羅國飛來王所。次遍示佛遊行處皆立表塔。大弟子塔亦同供養。返上正殿燒香大請。即有三十萬比丘來集。又感賓頭盧手舉眉毛為王說法。我住犍陀摩羅山。同行萬羅漢王普供養滿億百千金。乃至衰老太子制約。送半菴羅果研破羹內僧中行之。便訖後世至第四世。王佞臣告王。欲令名德久存於世者。當壞諸塔先往雞雀寺。石師子吼王怖入城。遂壞僧坊殺害比丘。得沙門頭者賞之百金。時得道人化為多頭。募賞藏空牙齒塔神恨之。乃有女夫神排山迮王及以兵眾無不死者。孔雀之裔於此云殂。 > The Avadāna-sūtra says: In the palace, through the four requisites, he constantly provided for twenty thousand śramaṇas. There was a novice named Duanzheng, thirteen years of age, who manifested supernatural powers and devoured twenty thousand brāhmaṇas to make them accept the Buddha's transformation. The narrative says: The king asked the man of the Path, 'How can unprincipled killing and harm be eradicated?' He answered, 'Only by erecting stūpas, making offerings to the Saṃgha, pardoning the prisons, and aiding the destitute.' Furthermore, with spiritual power he covered the sunlight with his hand, creating eighty-four thousand beams of light, and wherever they shone, stūpas were erected. He then dismantled the seven great stūpas to take their relics, obtained precious caskets and ornamentation from the nāgas, and commanded spirits and ghosts to erect a stūpa in every place on this continent with one hundred million households. Thus, on the fifteenth day of the month at the time of a lunar eclipse, eighty-four thousand stūpas were simultaneously erected, and the multitude all rejoiced. After King Aśoka had erected the stūpas, he went to Kukkuṭārāma. Upagupta, leading his retinue, flew to the king's location from the country of Mathurā. Next, showing all the places where the Buddha had wandered, commemorative stūpas were erected in all of them. The stūpas of the great disciples were likewise venerated. Returning to the main palace, he burned incense and held a great convocation; immediately three hundred thousand monks assembled. Moreover, he moved Piṇḍola to raise his eyebrows with his hand and preach the Dharma for the king, \[saying,\] 'I dwell on Mount Gandhamādana, together with ten thousand arhats.' The king made offerings everywhere to the full amount of one hundred million pieces of gold. Even in old age, when the crown prince restricted his authority, he sent half an āmalaka fruit, crushed it into the soup, and distributed it among the Saṃgha; then his life came to an end. Later, down to the fourth generation, flattering ministers told the king, 'If you wish your fame and virtue to remain long in the world, you should destroy the stūpas.' He first went to Kukkuṭārāma. A stone lion roared; the king entered the city in fear, and then destroyed the monasteries and slaughtered the monks. Whoever obtained a śramaṇa's head was rewarded with a hundred pieces of gold. At that time, a man of the Path transformed himself into multiple heads to claim the reward and conceal the truth. The tooth-stūpa deity resented this, and a male-spirit pushed a mountain to crush the king and his army, so that none escaped death. The lineage of the Mauryas came to an end here. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.266](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1.266) - [Next: 1.268](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1.268) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041~en-mt.1.267) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1.267](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2041.1.267) · Pramāṇa