經律異相 16.26

16.26

佛住舍衛城。時此城中有二姊妹。妊身未產出家為道。諸比丘尼見其腹相。即便驅出。以是因緣。往白世尊。世尊報言。在家妊身可得無罪。此比丘尼後生男兒。字童子迦葉。至年八歲。出家為道成阿羅漢。共十六群比丘。各持澡罐到阿耆羅河邊。澡洗入水仰覆浮戲。度河拍水沐浴。爾時波斯匿王。在重樓上四望觀看。王未信佛法。見是事已倍生不信。即語末利夫人言汝家所事福田大士。深信無疑何不顧看。即答王言。或是年少出家。始受具足未知戒律。或世尊未制此戒是故爾耳。童子迦葉。以其天耳聞王語聲。即語諸伴。王倍不信末利夫人心生不悅。今當令彼發歡喜心。皆言善哉。各捉澡罐盛中水以著於前。結加趺坐次第行列。凌虛而遊於王殿上空中而過。末利夫人在露處坐。見坐影已即便仰觀。見次第行列結加趺坐前有澡罐乘虛而去似如雁王。見是事已心大歡喜。即白王言。看我家福田神德如是。王見是已心大歡喜。作如是言。善哉善哉。我得善利。願佛世尊及比丘僧。盡壽在國為良福田。佛聞是事。即便制戒令不復爾（出僧祇律第十九卷十誦亦同）。

The Buddha resided in Śrāvastī. At that time, in this city there were two sisters who went forth to practice the Way while pregnant before giving birth. The nuns, seeing the appearance of her abdomen, drove her out. Because of this cause, [they] went and reported it to the Bhagavat. The Bhagavat replied, "Being pregnant while a householder can be without guilt." Later, this nun gave birth to a boy named Kumāra-Kāśyapa. At the age of eight, he went forth to practice the Way and became an arhat. Together with a group of sixteen monks, each holding a water pitcher, they went to the bank of the Aciravatī River. They washed, entered the water, floated and played on their backs and bellies, crossed the river, splashed the water, and bathed. At that time, King Prasenajit was in a multi-storied pavilion looking out in all directions. The king did not yet have faith in the Buddha's Dharma, and having seen this matter, his lack of faith doubled. He then said to Queen Mallikā, "The great beings of the field of merit whom your family serves, in whom you believe deeply without doubt—why do you not look at them?" She answered the king, "Perhaps they are young and have gone forth newly having received the full precepts, not yet knowing the vinaya rules; or perhaps the Bhagavat has not yet instituted this rule, which is why it is so." Kumāra-Kāśyapa, hearing the sound of the king's words with his divine ear, said to his companions, "The king's lack of faith has doubled, and Queen Mallikā's mind is displeased. Now we should make them give rise to joyful faith." They all said, "Excellent." Each took their water pitcher, filled it with water, placed it in front of them, sat cross-legged in orderly ranks, soared through the void, and passed through the air above the king's palace. Queen Mallikā was sitting in the open; seeing the shadows of those seated, she looked up and saw them in orderly ranks, sitting cross-legged with water pitchers before them, riding through the void like king geese. Seeing this, she was overjoyed. She said to the king, "Look at the supernormal virtue of our family's field of merit, which is like this!" Seeing this, the king was overjoyed and spoke thus: "Excellent, excellent! I have obtained good benefit. I pray that the Buddha, the Bhagavat, and the saṃgha of monks will remain in this country for the rest of their lives to be an excellent field of merit." When the Buddha heard of this matter, he immediately instituted a precept so that they would not do so again (from the nineteenth fascicle of the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya; also the same in the Daśabhāṇavāra Vinaya).