[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) › [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078) › 5.4 # 傳法正宗記 5.4 傳法正宗記 5.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.5.4) 不如蜜多尊者。南天竺國人也。姓剎帝利。父曰德勝。即其國之王。蜜多蓋德勝之太子也。誕時宮中有異香氤氳。家人奇之。然其天性淳懿。少崇佛事。初婆舍斯多。道化其國。尊者會事因稱疾。乞免太子。從斯多出家。王聽。斯多即宮中為其剃度。會勝僧受之具戒。事見於斯多傳。尋從斯多出宮。乃得付法。其後遊化至東天竺國。先是其國王剎帝。堅固信重長爪外道梵志者。及尊者入境。外道之徒患之。以告其師曰。適知不如蜜多入國。其人道勝。恐吾黨不如。宜先謀斥之。外道即請從其王登高。因西望謂王曰。西有妖氣必魔入境。王見之乎。王曰不見。然則奈之何。外道曰。此魔所至。家國必衰。然為王計者。不如誅之。王曰未見其罪。豈忍為乎。外道復進其徒之善呪者曰。其法能動天地。此可以禦魔。然尊者已知託以望氣。先戒其眾曰。我至此城必有小難。汝輩勿驚。及見王果詰曰。師來何為。尊者曰。我來欲度眾生。曰當以何法度何類眾生。曰隨其類而以法度之。曰苟有術者。師敢敵乎。曰我佛法至正。雖天魔不足降之。安有妖術而不敢當耶。外道輩聞其語益憤。作法即化一大山凝空。將壓尊者。尊者遂以指按地。地動。五百外道皆不能立。移山却臨其首。外道黨大懼。尊者復按地。地靜。化山亦沒。外道皆羅禮悔過。王亦謝之曰。吾不識大士。乃令螢火欲爭曜日月。是時王新遷其都。他日張大齋落之。亦以慰外道。欲尊者預會。尊者初不奉命。徐觀其地將陷。即以神通往之。王見曰。師果來耶。曰我非應供來。欲有所救耳。王曰何救。曰此地已為龍之所有。須臾當陷。眾不便去必溺。王恐急起。其眾去之。未遠至一高原。反顧其地果陷淵然成湫。王益敬蜜多。即嚴象駕。命尊者偕還其故城。因曰。余五日之前嘗夢。空中墜一金鎖垂至于地。我即舉之。今日之事非其應乎。尊者亦謂王曰。吾昔將至此國嘗夢。一奇童持寶蓋趨我之後。此必聖人出王所治。以相繼傳法。王曰。下國豈有至人耶。曰王無謙。是必應之。先是其國有婆羅門子。幼無父母。孑然放達。自號瓔珞。閭里不能測其為人。一日遽發隱語曰。神人脚踏土會裏逢龍虎。是日趣王來。王便隨他去。自是出處益不常。及王與尊者駕至其舊城之東。此子特來迎之禮於駕前。尊者語王曰。所謂王國之聖士。此其人也。尊者即謂瓔珞曰。汝記往事乎。瓔珞曰。我念昔同法會。尊者演摩訶般若波羅蜜。而我轉甚深修多羅。緣當復會。故此相候。蜜多謂王曰。此子蓋大勢至菩薩。降迹為吾嗣法。然其後復出二大士。其一先化南天竺。而後緣在震旦。然其九年却返本國。尊者即為之剃度。謂瓔珞曰。以前吾談般若汝說修多羅。致今復會。便宜以般若多羅為汝之名。當此不如蜜多化導於東天竺。逾六十年矣。一旦遂命般若多羅而告曰。昔如來付大法眼藏展轉至我。我今用傳於汝。汝宜流通勿令其絕。聽吾偈曰。 > The Venerable Punyamitra was a native of Southern India. His clan was kṣatriya. His father, named Deśajit, was the king of that country; Mitra was the crown prince of Deśajit. At his birth, an extraordinary fragrance pervaded the palace, and the royal family marveled at it. Moreover, his innate nature was pure and fine, and from youth he revered Buddhist affairs. Earlier, when Vāśasita was converting and transforming that country, the Venerable One met with this circumstance, pleaded illness, begged to be relieved of his position as crown prince, and went forth from home under Vāśasita. The king granted permission. Vāśasita then shaved his head in the palace and assembled eminent monks to confer the full precepts upon him; the matter appears in the biography of Vāśasita. Soon after, he followed Vāśasita out of the palace and thus received the transmission of the Dharma. Later, he traveled and taught until he arrived in Eastern India. Prior to this, the king of that country, Kṣatriya, firmly believed in and honored a brahmacārin of the Long-Nail non-Buddhists. When the Venerable One entered the border, the followers of the non-Buddhists were troubled by it, and reported to their master, saying, "We have just learned that Punyamitra has entered the country. That man's path is superior; we fear our faction is not his equal. We should first plot to expel him." The non-Buddhist then requested to ascend a high place with the king, and looking westward, said to the king, "To the west there is an ominous vapor; a demon must have entered the border. Does the King see it?" The king said, "I do not see it. If so, what should be done?" The non-Buddhist said, "Wherever this demon goes, family and state will surely decline. However, in planning for the King, nothing is better than executing him." The king said, "I have not yet seen his fault; how could I bear to do so?" The non-Buddhist further brought forward a disciple skilled in incantations, saying, "His technique can move heaven and earth; this can ward off the demon." However, the Venerable One already knew of this pretext of observing vapors. He first cautioned his assembly, saying, "When I arrive at this city, there will surely be a minor calamity. Do not be frightened." When he met the king, the king indeed questioned him, saying, "Why have you come, Master?" The Venerable One said, "I have come wishing to deliver sentient beings." The king said, "By what Dharma will you deliver what kind of sentient beings?" He said, "According to their kind, I deliver them with the Dharma." The king said, "If someone possesses arts, does the Master dare to oppose him?" He said, "My Buddha-Dharma is supremely upright. Even heavenly demons are not enough to bring it down; how could there be demonic arts that I would not dare to confront?" Hearing his words, the non-Buddhists became even more infuriated. Performing their rites, they immediately conjured a great mountain congealed in the sky, about to crush the Venerable One. The Venerable One then pressed the ground with his finger; the earth shook, and none of the five hundred non-Buddhists could stand. The moved mountain instead loomed over their heads. The party of non-Buddhists was terrified. The Venerable One pressed the ground again; the earth became still, and the conjured mountain also vanished. The non-Buddhists all lined up, bowed, and repented their faults. The king also apologized to him, saying, "I did not recognize the Great Being, and thus caused fireflies to contend in brilliance with the sun and moon." At that time, the king had newly relocated his capital. On another day, he held a great vegetarian feast to inaugurate it, also to console the non-Buddhists, and wished for the Venerable One to participate in the gathering. The Venerable One at first did not comply. Slowly observing that the ground was about to cave in, he immediately went there with supernatural powers. The king saw him and said, "Has the Master indeed come?" He said, "I have not come to accept the offering; I only wish to save people." The king said, "Save them from what?" He said, "This land already belongs to a dragon. In an instant, it will collapse. If the assembly does not leave immediately, they will surely drown." Frightened, the king hastily arose, and the assembly departed from it. Before they had gone far, they reached a high plateau; looking back, the ground had indeed collapsed into an abyss, turning into a marsh. The king respected Mitra even more, immediately arranged an elephant carriage, and ordered the Venerable One to return with him to the old city. He then said, "Five days ago, I dreamed that a golden chain fell from mid-air and hung down to the ground; I then lifted it up. Is not today's event its verification?" The Venerable One also said to the king, "When I was about to arrive in this country in the past, I dreamed that a wondrous boy holding a jeweled parasol hurried after me. A sage must surely emerge in the King's realm to inherit the transmission of the Dharma successively." The king said, "How could our humble state have a consummate person?" He said, "Do not be modest, King; this will surely be verified." Prior to this, there was a brāhmaṇa's son in that country who had lost his parents in childhood and was solitary and unrestrained. He called himself Yingluo. The neighborhood could not fathom what kind of person he was. One day, he suddenly spoke an enigma, saying, "A divine man's foot treads on the earth; in the assembly one meets dragon and tiger. On this day, urge the king to come; the king will just follow him away." From then on, his comings and goings became even more irregular. When the carriage of the king and the Venerable One arrived at the east of the old city, this boy came especially to welcome them and bowed before the carriage. The Venerable One said to the king, "The so-called sage of the King's realm is this very person." The Venerable One then said to Yingluo, "Do you remember past events?" Yingluo said, "I recall that in the past, in the same Dharma assembly, the Venerable One expounded the Mahāprajñāpāramitā, while I recited the profound sūtras. As our conditions were destined to meet again, I therefore awaited you here." Mitra said to the king, "This child is Mahāsthāmaprāpta Bodhisattva, who has descended his traces to be my Dharma heir. However, after him, two great beings will emerge again. One will first transform Southern India, and afterward his conditions will lie in Cīnasthāna; yet after nine years, he will return to his original country." The Venerable One then shaved his head and said to Yingluo, "Because formerly I spoke of prajñā and you spoke of sūtras, which brought about our meeting again today, it is fitting to take Prajñātāra as your name." By this time, Punyamitra had been teaching and converting in Eastern India for more than sixty years. One morning, he summoned Prajñātāra and told him, "In the past, the Tathāgata entrusted the Great Dharma-Eye Treasury, which was passed down until reaching me. I now transmit it to you. You should circulate it and not let it be severed. 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