[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 16.22 # 經律異相 16.22 經律異相 16.22 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16.22) 佛在鷄足山。時有婆羅門生子。令相師視之。師言。是子無相當名阿保。其父母聞之。無相雖長養之初不憐矜。到年十二足自生活。父母遂逐令去勿復來還。子不敢留遂行乞食。乃到祇洹。佛以大慈念其勤苦。即使阿難呼問之。能出家不。兒即歡喜願為沙門。佛即以手而摩其頭。頭髮即墮袈裟著身。佛為立名名羅旬踰。時五部僧每出分衛。而羅旬踰所在之部以空鉢還。佛勅比丘分以施之。如是非一。目連念言。是比丘僧自不得食。餘人何故悉復空還。我若共行猶有所得。佛知其意便與舍利弗俱。使目連與羅旬踰俱。各分為一部。佛告目連。我所在處汝不得往。目連即與羅旬踰俱行。適欲所至即便見佛。及與舍利弗而在其門。如是經歷過百億國。遂不得食。目連念言。我於今日定不得食。羅旬踰。時甚大飢極止恒水邊。目揵連。即還到於佛所。佛時鉢中尚有餘食。即與目連。念言。我今飢甚。欲吞須彌尚謂不飽。但此少飯何足可食。佛告目連。且食此飯勿憂不足。目連即飯。飯既已飽鉢中不空。唯舍利弗即念。羅旬踰。今未得食。當大飢苦。便白佛言。願乞餘飯與羅旬踰。佛即告言。我不惜飯。但羅旬踰宿行果報不應得之。若謂不然。汝便可與。舍利弗便以飯與之。羅旬踰得即欲受飯。鉢便下入地百丈。舍利弗以道力。手尋鉢即得以還羅旬踰。適欲食之。便誤覆鉢倒去。飯食皆散水中。羅旬踰還坐定意。自思念言。我每與諸比丘俱行。輒無所得空鉢而還。舍利弗今以佛餘飯與我。輒復覆去。皆我罪報應當所受。便自思惟。結解垢除得羅漢道。即便食土而般泥洹。欲知羅旬踰者。惟衛佛時。身為凡人。常懷慳貪不肯布施。時當欲飯脫衣布地恐飯粒落。有沙門過從其分衛。羅旬踰見謂之言。當何以相與。便以手捧土與沙門。沙門即呪願言。是汝愚癡故耳。當使汝早得度脫。由來久遠展轉生死。乃至於今所在之處輒不得食。於今得道食土泥洹。時羅旬踰與土沙門舍利弗是。罪福報應今雖得道故受宿殃。世人愚癡。謂行惡無罪。羅旬踰是其證也（出羅旬踰經）。 > The Buddha was on Kukkuṭapāda Mountain. At that time, a brāhmaṇa had a son born to him and had a physiognomist examine him. The master said, "This child has no auspicious marks; he should be named Abao." When his parents heard this, although they raised him without auspicious marks, they never showed him affection or pity. When he reached the age of twelve and was able to support himself, his parents finally drove him away, telling him never to return. The boy dared not stay, so he went begging for food and eventually reached the Jetavana. The Buddha, with great compassion, took pity on his toil and suffering, and immediately had Ānanda call him and ask whether he could go forth. The boy rejoiced and wished to become a śramaṇa. The Buddha stroked his head with his hand, whereupon his hair fell out and kāṣāya robes appeared on his body. The Buddha gave him the name Luoxunyu. At that time, whenever the five groups of monks went out on almsround, the group in which Luoxunyu was present would return with empty bowls. The Buddha instructed the monks to divide \[their food\] and give it to him, and this happened not just once. Maudgalyāyana thought, "This monk does not obtain food himself; why do the other people also return completely empty-handed? If I go with him, surely something will be obtained." The Buddha, knowing his thought, went together with Śāriputra, while making Maudgalyāyana go together with Luoxunyu, each dividing into a group. The Buddha told Maudgalyāyana, "You must not go where I am." Maudgalyāyana then went together with Luoxunyu. Wherever they were about to go, they immediately saw the Buddha and Śāriputra already at the gate. In this manner, having passed through a hundred billion lands, they still obtained no food. Maudgalyāyana thought, "Today I am certainly not going to obtain food." At that time, Luoxunyu was extremely famished and halted by the bank of the Ganges. Maudgalyāyana then returned to the Buddha's location. At that time, there was still leftover food in the Buddha's bowl, which he gave to Maudgalyāyana. \[Maudgalyāyana\] thought, "I am now extremely hungry; even if I swallowed Sumeru I would still not feel full. How could this small amount of rice be enough to eat?" The Buddha told Maudgalyāyana, "Just eat this rice and do not worry about it being insufficient." Maudgalyāyana then ate; when he was full, the bowl was still not empty. Then Śāriputra thought, "Luoxunyu has still not received food today and must be suffering greatly from hunger." He said to the Buddha, "I pray to beg for the remaining rice to give to Luoxunyu." The Buddha then told him, "I do not begrudge the rice, but it is due to Luoxunyu's past karma and retribution that he should not obtain it. If you think otherwise, you may give it to him." Śāriputra then took the rice to give to him. As soon as Luoxunyu reached out to receive the rice, the bowl sank into the ground a hundred fathoms deep. By the power of the Way, Śāriputra traced the bowl with his hand, retrieved it, and gave it back to Luoxunyu. Just as he was about to eat it, the bowl accidentally flipped upside down, and the food was all scattered into the water. Luoxunyu returned, sat, settled his mind, and thought to himself, "Whenever I go with the monks, I invariably obtain nothing and return with an empty bowl. Now Śāriputra gave me the Buddha's leftover rice, and it immediately overturned again. This is all the retribution of my sins that I ought to receive." He then contemplated within himself; his fetters were untied, defilements were eliminated, and he attained the way of an arhat. He then ate soil and entered parinirvāṇa. If you wish to know who Luoxunyu was: in the time of Vipaśyin Buddha, he was a common person who was constantly stingy and unwilling to practice giving. At that time, when he was about to eat, he would take off his clothes and spread them on the ground for fear that grains of rice might fall. A śramaṇa passed by begging for alms from him. Luoxunyu saw him and said to him, "What should I give you?" He then scooped up soil with his hands and gave it to the śramaṇa. The śramaṇa made a vow and said, "This is merely due to your ignorance. May you quickly attain deliverance." From that distant time onwards, transmigrating through birth and death down to the present, wherever he went he invariably received no food. Now having attained the Way, he ate soil and entered nirvāṇa. The śramaṇa to whom Luoxunyu gave soil at that time was Śāriputra. The retribution of sin and merit is such that, although he attained the Way now, he still suffered past calamity. Worldly people are foolish and say that committing evil brings no sin; Luoxunyu is proof of this (from the Sūtra of Luoxunyu). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16.21) - [Next: 16.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16.23) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.16.22) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.16.22) · Pramāṇa