經律異相 13.37

13.37

阿那律。大迦葉。目連。賓頭盧共議。今王舍城。有不信樂佛法僧者。我等當共令其信樂。作是議已。遍觀遠近。唯見跋提長者及其姊不信三寶。上三聲聞言。能化跋提。時彼長者作七重門。有三部伎。若欲食時七門皆閉。一食作一部伎。阿那律於其食時在其前乞。長者問言。從何處入。答從門入。即問守門。門閉如故。不見人入。長者便以一片麻餅著其鉢中。得已即去。於後食時。迦葉復乞亦復如是。得一片魚著其鉢中。其姊問言。意謂比丘不能得而來乞耶答言如是。姊言。前來比丘名阿那律。釋種之子。捨三時殿五欲之樂。出家學道。後來比丘是畢波羅延。摩納大姓之子。捨九百九十田宅犁牛。出家學道。愍念君故來乞食耳。長者聞已內懷敬伏。於是目連。飛空說法示教利喜。即於坐上遠塵離垢得法眼淨見法得果。即受歸戒。上三聲聞語賓頭盧。我等今者。已化跋提令其信法。汝今宜行次化其姊。時賓頭盧晨朝持鉢往到其舍。時長者姊手自作餅。忽見來乞便。語之言。不與汝。一心視鉢欲以何為。賓頭盧便身中烟出。復語言。舉身煙出亦不與汝。賓頭盧便舉身火然。復語言。舉身火然亦不與汝。賓頭盧便飛騰虛空。復語言。飛騰虛空亦不與汝。賓頭盧便倒懸空中。復語言。倒懸空中亦不與汝。賓頭盧作是念。世尊不聽我等強從人乞。便自出去。王舍城不遠有大石。賓頭盧坐其上。合石飛入王舍城。城中人見皆大怖懼。恐石落地莫不馳走。至長者姊上便住不去。彼見是已即大恐怖。白言。願施我命反石於先。我當與食。賓頭盧便持石還著故處至其前住。長者姊作是念。我不能以大餅施之。當更作小者與之。便作小丸輒反成大。如是三反轉大於前。乃作念言。我欲作小皆反成大。我今便可趣與一餅。即以一餅而授與之。諸餅相連并至餅器。以手捉器手亦著之。便語賓頭盧言。汝若須餅盡以相與。全出與不惜。何須我為。而令我手著。答言。我不須餅。亦不須器。亦不須汝。我等四人共議。度汝及第二人。已化汝弟。我應度汝。所以爾耳。問言。今欲令我何所施作。答言。姊妹可戴此餅。隨我施佛及千二百五十比丘。皆悉飽滿猶故不盡。持往白佛。我此少餅。供佛及僧。皆悉飽滿。猶故不盡。今當持此著於何處。佛言。可著無生草地。若無蟲水中。彼女人便持著無蟲水中。水沸作聲如以熱鐵投于小水。便生恐怖。還至佛所。佛為說法得法眼淨。即受歸戒如弟子無異。諸長老等以是白佛。佛即訶責諸比丘。從今不聽復現神足（出彌沙塞律第三十卷）。

Aniruddha, Mahākāśyapa, Maudgalyāyana, and Piṇḍola conferred together: "At present, in Rājagṛha, there are people who do not have faith and delight in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha. We should work together to cause them to have faith and delight." Having conferred thus, they surveyed far and near, and saw only the elder Bhadrika and his sister who did not have faith in the Three Jewels. The three śrāvakas above said they could convert Bhadrika.
At that time, that elder had built seven sets of gates and had three troupes of entertainers. Whenever he wished to eat, all seven gates were closed, and at each meal one troupe of entertainers performed. At the time of his meal, Aniruddha went before him to beg. The elder asked, "From where did you enter?"
He replied, "I entered through the gates."
He immediately questioned the gatekeepers; the gates were locked as before, and no one had been seen entering. The elder then took a piece of hemp cake and put it into his bowl. Having obtained it, he immediately departed.
At a later meal, Kāśyapa went again to beg in the same manner, and obtained a piece of fish put into his bowl. The [elder's] sister asked him, "Did you think the monks could not obtain [food] and thus came to beg?"
He replied, "Yes."
The sister said, "The monk who came before is named Aniruddha, a son of the Śākya clan. He abandoned palaces for the three seasons and the pleasures of the five desires to leave home and study the Way. The monk who came later is Pippalāyana, the son of a great brāhmaṇa clan. He abandoned nine hundred and ninety fields, houses, plows, and oxen to leave home and study the Way. It was only out of compassion for you that they came to beg for food!"
When the elder heard this, he felt reverence and submission within. Thereupon, Maudgalyāyana flew through the air, preached the Dharma, and instructed, benefited, and gladdened him. Immediately on his seat, [Bhadrika] became distant from dust and free of defilement, attained the purity of the Dharma-eye, saw the Dharma, and attained the fruit. He then received the refuges and precepts.
The three śrāvakas above said to Piṇḍola, "We have now converted Bhadrika and caused him to have faith in the Dharma. You should now go and convert his sister in turn."
Then, in the morning, Piṇḍola took his bowl and went to her house. At that time, the elder's sister was making cakes with her own hands. Suddenly seeing him come to beg, she said to him, "I will not give to you. Why do you gaze single-mindedly into your bowl—what do you want?"
Piṇḍola then emitted smoke from his body. She spoke to him again, "Even if smoke comes out of your whole body, I still will not give to you."
Piṇḍola's whole body then blazed with fire. She spoke to him again, "Even if your whole body blazes with fire, I still will not give to you."
Piṇḍola then flew up into empty space. She spoke to him again, "Even if you fly into empty space, I still will not give to you."
Piṇḍola then hung upside down in empty space. She spoke to him again, "Even if you hang upside down in empty space, I still will not give to you."
Piṇḍola thought: "The Bhagavat does not allow us to force people to give alms." He then left on his own.
Not far from Rājagṛha, there was a great boulder. Piṇḍola sat upon it, and along with the boulder flew into Rājagṛha. The people in the city, seeing this, were all terrified; fearing the boulder would fall to the ground, everyone ran in panic. Reaching the sky above the elder's sister, it stopped and did not depart. Seeing this, she was greatly terrified, and said, "Please grant me my life! Return the boulder to where it was before, and I will give you food."
Piṇḍola then took the boulder, returned it to its original place, and went before her to stand. The elder's sister thought, "I cannot give him a large cake; I will make a smaller one to give him." She made a small ball, but it always turned into a large one instead. After three attempts, each grew larger than the last. She then thought, "Whatever I try to make small turns into something large. I might as well simply give him one cake." She immediately took one cake and handed it to him. The cakes all stuck together, all the way to the cake vessel; when she took hold of the vessel with her hand, her hand stuck to it as well. She said to Piṇḍola, "If you need cakes, I will give them all to you. I give them whole and do not begrudge them. Why do you need me, causing my hand to stick?"
He replied, "I do not need the cakes, nor do I need the vessel, nor do I need you. The four of us conferred and agreed to deliver you and the second person. Your brother has already been converted, and I was assigned to deliver you. That is the reason it is so."
She asked, "Now what do you wish me to do?"
He replied, "Sister, you may carry these cakes and follow me to make an offering to the Buddha and the one thousand two hundred and fifty monks." All were completely sated, yet the cakes were still not exhausted.
She brought what remained to report to the Buddha: "With these few cakes of mine, I made an offering to the Buddha and the Saṅgha, and all were completely sated, yet they are still not exhausted. Where should I now place them?"
The Buddha said, "You may place them on ground where no grass grows, or into water that has no living creatures."
The woman then took them and placed them in water free of living creatures. The water boiled with a sound like throwing hot iron into a little water. She became terrified and returned to the Buddha's presence. The Buddha preached the Dharma for her, and she attained the purity of the Dharma-eye. She then received the refuges and precepts, no different from [other] disciples. The elders and others reported this to the Buddha. The Buddha then rebuked the monks: "From now on, I do not permit you to display divine powers again." (Extracted from the thirtieth fascicle of the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya).