景德傳燈錄 2.43

2.43

第二十六祖不如密多者。南印度得勝王之太子也。既受度得法至東印度。彼王名堅固。奉外道師長爪梵志。暨尊者將至。王與梵志同覩白氣貫于上下。王曰。斯何瑞也。梵志預知尊者入境。恐王遷善乃曰。此是魔來之兆耳。何瑞之有。即鳩諸徒眾議曰。不如蜜多將入都城。誰能挫之。弟子曰。我等各有呪術。可以動天地入水火。何患哉。尊者至先見宮牆有黑氣。乃曰。小難耳。直詣王所。王曰。師來何為。尊者曰。將度眾生。曰以何法度。尊者曰。各以其類度之。時梵志聞言不勝其怒。即以幻法化大山於尊者頂上。尊者指之忽在彼眾頭上。梵志等怖懼投尊者。尊者愍其愚惑。再指之化山隨滅。乃為王演說法要俾趣真乘。又謂王曰此國當有聖人而繼於我。是時有婆羅門子。年二十許。幼失父母。不知名氏。或自言瓔珞。故人謂之瓔珞童子遊行閭里匃求度日。若常不輕之類。人問汝何行急。即答云。汝何行慢。或問何姓。乃曰。與汝同姓。莫知其故。後王與尊者同車而出。見瓔珞童子稽首於前。尊者曰。汝憶往事否。曰我念遠劫中與師同居。師演摩訶般若。我轉甚深修多羅。今日之事蓋契昔因。尊者又謂王曰。此童子非他。即大勢至菩薩是也。此聖之後復出二人。一人化南印度。一人緣在震旦。四五年內却返此方。遂以昔因故名般若多羅付法眼藏。偈曰。

The twenty-sixth patriarch, Punyamitra, was the crown prince of King Desheng of Southern India. Having been ordained and obtained the Dharma, he went to Eastern India. That king was named Jiangu (Dṛḍha), who revered the non-Buddhist master Dīrghanakha the Brahmacārin. When the Venerable One was about to arrive, the king and the Brahmacārin together saw a white vapor piercing through above and below. The king said, “What omen is this?” The Brahmacārin, knowing in advance that the Venerable One was entering the borders and fearing that the king would turn to goodness, said, “This is merely an omen of Mara's coming; what good omen is there?” He immediately gathered his disciples and deliberated, saying, “Punyamitra is about to enter the capital; who can defeat him?” The disciples said, “We each possess magical incantations with which we can move heaven and earth and enter water and fire. What worry is there?” When the Venerable One arrived, he first saw black vapor over the palace wall, and said, “A minor difficulty.” He went straight to the king's place. The king said, “Why has the master come?” The Venerable One said, “To deliver sentient beings.” The king said, “By what Dharma will you deliver them?” The Venerable One said, “I deliver each according to their kind.” At that time, hearing these words, the Brahmacārin could not contain his rage; he immediately used illusory arts to conjure a great mountain above the Venerable One's head. The Venerable One pointed at it, and it suddenly appeared above their assembly's heads. The Brahmacārin and the others were terrified and threw themselves before the Venerable One. The Venerable One, pitying their ignorance and confusion, pointed at it again, and the conjured mountain vanished accordingly. He then expounded the essentials of the Dharma for the king, causing him to incline toward the true vehicle. He also told the king, “In this country there shall be a holy person who will succeed me.” At that time, there was the son of a Brahmin, about twenty years old, who had lost his parents in childhood and did not know his family or personal name. Sometimes he referred to himself as Muktāhāra (Yingluo, ‘Necklace’), so people called him the Necklace Boy. He wandered the villages begging for food to pass the days, like the kind of Sadāparibhūta (Never-Disparaging). When people asked, “Why are you walking so fast?” he would reply, “Why are you walking so slowly?” When asked what his surname was, he said, “The same surname as you.” No one knew the reason. Later, the king went out in a carriage together with the Venerable One, and saw the Necklace Boy bow before them. The Venerable One said, “Do you remember past events?” He said, “I recall that in a distant kalpa, I lived together with the Master; the Master expounded the Mahāprajñā, and I recited the profound sūtras. Today's event indeed accords with former causes.” The Venerable One further told the king, “This boy is none other than the Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta. After this holy one, two more persons will emerge: one will transform Southern India, and one's conditions will be in Cīnasthāna (Zhendan). Within four or five years, he will return to this realm.” He then, on account of past causes, named him Prajñātāra and transmitted to him the Treasury of the Dharma Eye. The verse said: