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大唐西域記 6.20

大唐西域記 6.20

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Classical Chinese

6.20

還軍之側,有窣堵波,是釋女被戮處。毘盧釋迦王誅釋克勝,簡五百女,充實宮闈。釋女憤恚,怨言不遜,詈其王:「家人之子也。」王聞發怒,命令誅戮。執法者奉王教,刖其手足,投諸阬阱。時諸釋女含苦稱佛,世尊聖鑒,照其苦毒,告命苾芻,攝衣而往,為諸釋女說微妙法,所謂羈纏五欲,流轉三途,恩愛別離,生死長遠。時諸釋女聞佛指誨,遠塵離垢,得法眼淨,同時命終,俱生天上。時天帝釋化作婆羅門,收骸火葬,後人記焉。

By the side of this place is a stupa; this is the spot where the Sakya maidens were slaughtered. Virudhaka-raja having destroyed the Sakyas, in celebration of his victory, took 500 of the Sakya maidens for his harem. The girls, filled with hatred and rage, said they would never obey the king, and reviled the king and his household. The king, hearing of it, was filled with rage, and ordered them all to be slaughtered. Then the officers, obedient to the king's orders, cut off their hands and feet, and cast them into a ditch. Then all the Sakya maidens, nursing their grief, invoked Buddha. The Lord by his sacred power of insight having beheld their pain and agony, bade a Bhikshu take his garment and go to preach the most profound doctrine to the Sakya girls, viz., on the bonds of the five desires, the misery of transmigration in the evil ways, the pain of separation between loved ones, and the long period (distance) of birth and death. Then the Sakya maidens, having heard the instructions of Buddha, put away the defilement of sense, removed all pollutions, and obtained the purity of the eyes of the law; then they died and were all born in heaven. Then Sakra, king of Devas, taking the form of a Brahman, collected their bones and burnt them. Men of succeeding years have kept this record.

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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