經律異相 19.24

19.24

佛在舍衛城。有比丘名難提。行住坐臥心常念定。過七年已退失禪定。復依樹下還習正受欲求本定。魔伺其便變為女人端正無比。於其前住而語之曰。比丘共我行婬來。難提言。惡邪速滅。惡邪速滅。口雖發言而目不視。第二第三皆亦如是。天女即脫衣露形立難提前。難提見其形相欲心染著。爾時天女漸漸却行。難提喚言。汝可小住。天女疾至祇洹塹中。塹有死馬。天女於此隱形不現。難提欲心熾盛。即婬此死馬。欲心息已自念不善。即脫法衣而往祇洹。語比丘言。我犯重罪。比丘即問因緣。難提具說。比丘以事白佛。佛令驅出。比丘白佛言。難提久修梵行。云何為女所惑。佛言。難提不但今為女所惑。過去亦然。過去世時南方阿槃提國有迦葉氏。外道出家聰明博識。助王理國。王執國法拷治姦賊。外道念言。我已出家。云何共王詳斷此事。即白王言。我欲出家王言。師已出家。云何方言我欲出家。答言。我今預此種種刑法。何名出家。我今欲依仙法出家。王言可爾。即於百巖山造立精舍。修習仙法得五神通。忽因小行不淨流出。時有牝鹿。飲此小便舐其產門。即便有胎產一小兒。仙人往看見鹿生兒。怪而念曰。云何畜生而生於人。入定觀之。知是其子收而養之。依母生故體斑似鹿。故名鹿斑。仙人念言。敗正毀德莫過女人。於是教以禪定。化以五通。為說偈言。

When the Buddha was in Śrāvastī, there was a monk named Nandi. Walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, his mind was constantly mindful of concentration. After seven years passed, he retrograded and lost his dhyāna concentration. Relying once more on the foot of a tree, he returned to practicing meditative attainment, wishing to seek his original concentration. Māra, watching for an opportunity, transformed into an incomparably beautiful woman, stood before him, and said, "Monk, come and engage in sexual intercourse with me." Nandi said, "Evil wicked one, perish quickly! Evil wicked one, perish quickly!" Although his mouth uttered the words, his eyes did not look at her. A second and third time it was also like this. The deva maiden then took off her clothes, exposed her body, and stood in front of Nandi. When Nandi saw her form, his lustful mind was tainted and attached. At that time, the deva maiden gradually stepped backward. Nandi called out, "You may stay a little!" The deva maiden rushed into the ditch of the Jetavana. In the ditch was a dead horse. There the deva maiden concealed her form and became invisible. Nandi's lustful mind was blazing; he immediately had intercourse with this dead horse. When his lustful mind subsided, he reflected on his unwholesome deed, took off his Dharma robes, went to the Jetavana, and told the monks, "I have committed a grave offense." The monks asked him the circumstances, and Nandi related them in detail. The monks reported the matter to the Buddha, and the Buddha ordered him expelled. The monks said to the Buddha, "Nandi cultivated brahma-faring for a long time; why was he deluded by a woman?" The Buddha said, "Nandi was not only deluded by a woman today; in the past it was also so. In a past life, in the southern country of Avanti, there was a non-Buddhist renunciant of the Kāśyapa clan, intelligent and learned, who assisted the king in governing the country. The king upheld the state laws to torture and punish scoundrels and bandits. The non-Buddhist thought, 'I have already gone forth from home; why am I deliberating and judging these matters together with the king?' He immediately said to the king, 'I wish to go forth from home.' The king said, 'The master has already gone forth from home; why do you now say you wish to go forth from home?' He answered, 'I am now participating in these various penal laws; how can this be called going forth from home? I now wish to go forth from home according to the way of the rṣis.' The king said, 'Very well.' He then built a monastery on the Hundred-Cliff Mountain, cultivated the rṣi's way, and attained the five supernormal powers. Suddenly, while urinating, impure fluid flowed forth. At that time, there was a doe that drank this urine and licked her birth canal; she then became pregnant and gave birth to a young child. The ṛṣi went to look, saw that the deer had given birth to a child, and, wondering, thought, 'How could a beast give birth to a human?' Entering concentration to observe, he knew it was his son, took him, and raised him. Because he was born from the mother, his body had spots like a deer, and he was therefore named Fawn-Spotted (Mṛgaśṛṅga). The ṛṣi thought, 'Nothing ruins rectitude and destroys virtue more than women.' Thereupon he taught him dhyāna concentration and transformed him with the five supernormal powers, reciting a verse for him: