大唐西域記 9.17

9.17

舍利子證果北不遠，有大深坑，傍建窣堵波，是室利毱多（唐言勝密）以火坑、毒飯欲害佛處。勝密者，宗信外道，深著邪見。諸梵志曰：「喬答摩國人尊敬，遂令我徒無所恃賴，汝今可請至家飯會，門穿大坑，滿中縱火，棧以朽木，覆以燥土。凡諸飲食，皆雜毒藥，若免火坑，當遭毒食。」勝密承命，便設毒會。城中之人皆知勝密於世尊所起惡害心，咸皆勸請，願佛勿往。世尊告曰：「無得懷憂。如來之身，物莫能害。」於是受請而往。足履門閫，火坑成池，清瀾澄鑒，蓮花彌漫。勝密見已，憂惶無措，謂其徒曰：「以術免火，尚有毒食。」世尊飯食已訖，為說妙法，勝密聞已，謝咎歸依。

Asvajita answering him said, "Know you not the royal prince, the son of Suddhodana-raja, who gave up the condition of a Chakravarttin monarch, and from pity to the six kinds of creatures for six years endured penance and reached the condition of Sambodhi, the state of perfect omniscience? This is my master! As to his law, it has respect to a condition including the absence of existence, without nonentity; it is difficult to define; only Buddhas with Buddhas can fathom it; how much less can foolish and blind mortals, such as I, explain its principles. But for your sake I will recite a stanza in praise of the law of Buddha." Sariputra having heard it, obtained forthwith the fruit of Arhatship. To the north of this place, not far off, there is a very deep ditch, by the side of which is built a stupa; this is the spot where Srigupta (She-li-kio-to) wished to destroy Buddha by means of fire concealed in the ditch and poisoned rice. Now Srigupta (Shing-mi) greatly honoured (believed in) the heretics, and his mind was deeply possessed by false views. All the Brahmacharins said, "The men of the country greatly honour Gautama (Kiao-ta-mo), and in consequence he causes our disciples to be without support. Invite him then to your house to eat, and before the door make a great ditch and fill it with fire, and cover it over slightly with wooden planks to conceal the fire; moreover, poison the food, so that if he escape the fire (fiery ditch], he will take the poison."

Srigupta, according to his directions, caused the poison to be prepared, and then all the people in the town, knowing the evil and destructive design of Srigupta against the Lord of the World, entreated Buddha not to go to the house. The Lord said, "Be not distressed; the body of Tathagata cannot be hurt by such means as these." He therefore accepted the invitation and went. When his foot trod on the threshold of the door the fire in the pit became a tank of pure water with lotus flowers on its surface. Srigupta having witnessed this, being filled with shame and fear lest his project should fail, said to his followers, "He has by his magical power escaped the fire; but there is yet the poisoned food!" The Lord having eaten the rice, began to declare the excellent law, on which Srigupta, having attended to it, himself became a disciple. To the north-east of this fiery ditch of Srigupta (Shing-mi), at a bend of the city, is a stupa; this is where Jivaka (Shi-fo-kia), the great physician, built a preaching-hall for Buddha. All round the walls he planted flowers and fruit trees. The traces of the foundation-walls and the decayed roots of the trees are still visible. Tathagata, when he was in the world, often stopped here. By the side of this place are the remains of the house of Jivaka, and the hollow of an old well also exists there still.