三寶感應要略錄 2.27

2.27

昔南海之濱。有一樹枯。五百蝙蝠。於中穴聚居。有商侶止於樹下。既屬風寒。人皆飢凍。聚積樵蘇。溫火其下。煙焰漸熾。枯樹遂燃。時商侶中有賈客。夜分已後。誦阿毘達磨藏。諸蝙蝠雜為火困。受好法音。忍而不去。於是命終。隨業受生。俱得人身。捨家修學小乘法。聰明利智。並證聖果。近迦膩色迦王。與脇尊者。招集五百賢聖於迦濕彌羅國。作毘婆娑論。斯枯樹之中五百蝙蝠也。

Formerly, by the shore of the southern sea, there was a withered tree. Five hundred bats gathered and dwelt inside its hollow. A party of merchants stopped beneath the tree. As the wind was cold, the men were all freezing and hungry. They gathered firewood and made a fire beneath it to warm themselves. The smoke and flames gradually blazed up, and the withered tree caught fire. At that time, among the merchants was a traveler who, after midnight, recited the Abhidharma Piṭaka. Though distressed by the fire, the bats took delight in the sound of the good Dharma, endured it, and did not leave. Thereupon their lives ended. Born according to their karma, they all obtained human bodies, left home, and cultivated the Hīnayāna Dharma. Being clever and of sharp intellect, they all realized the holy fruit. Recently, King Kaniṣka and Venerable Pārśva gathered five hundred sages and worthies in the country of Kaśmīra to compose the Vibhāṣā treatise. These were the five hundred bats from inside that withered tree.