三寶感應要略錄 3.49

3.49

魯郡有孤女。住精舍故地。於麥田中。見朽木似聖像。收置草屋。其朽像出處麥叢滋茂。女謂像力。以所食上分。而供養之。後遭疾而終。一日一夜還活。以屋地施精舍。以身眼造觀世音像。啼泣供養。人怪問由。女答。我死見兩人。收火車上而持去。忽有一沙門。五體損壞。語持車人曰。我代此人。是我旦越。持車人置車人置車於地。合掌白言。大士乞吾。不測王誠。當放此女。即火車上沙門。沙門將吾歸屋。爾時白沙門言。師誰救吾。答我是觀世音也。汝不識。麥田中朽木。即我像也云云。妾見此利益。不惜田屋而已。

In Lu commandery there was an orphaned girl who lived on the former grounds of a vihāra. Amid a wheat field she found a piece of rotten wood resembling a sacred image, which she took and placed in her thatched hut. The place in the wheat patch from which the rotten image came grew lush and flourishing. The girl considered this to be the power of the image, and took the best portion of what she ate to make offerings to it. Later she fell ill and died, but after a day and a night she revived. She donated her house and land to the vihāra, and with her own flesh and eyes [in mind] had an image of Avalokiteśvara made, weeping as she made offerings to it. People found this strange and asked the reason. The girl answered: “When I died, I saw two men gather me onto a fire-cart and bear me away. Suddenly there was a śramaṇa whose five limbs were damaged. He said to the men holding the cart, ‘I will take this person's place; she is my dānapati.’ The men holding the cart placed the cart on the ground, joined their palms, and said: ‘Mahāsattva, please spare us; we cannot fathom the king’s sincerity, so we must release this woman.’ Thereupon the śramaṇa mounted the fire-cart, and [another] śramaṇa brought me back home. At that time I said to the śramaṇa, ‘Master, who are you that saves me?’ He answered, ‘I am Avalokiteśvara. Do you not recognize that the rotten wood in the wheat field is my image?’ and so forth. Having seen this benefit, I simply did not begrudge my fields and house.”