經律異相 21.23

21.23

調達在羅閱城。興謀害心。後事彰露。時阿闍世王。語調達曰。汝宜出國不須住此。十六大國莫不聞知。調達造惡向於如來。調達聞已內懷憂慼。便還本國恚結所纏。唐突菩薩宮內。語瞿夷曰。我欲拜汝為第一夫人。不審聖女為可爾不。瞿夷語曰。前汝右手吾欲把之。調達舒手使把扼。腕骨碎五指血出。當時迷悶良久乃蘇。是時調達轉進入宮。踞菩薩床。宮人見之捉擲床下。即傷左髂不堪行來。輿還本舍。諸釋皆嫌皆來告語。汝今宜可詣佛懺悔。調達聞之。私設巧詐。密作鐵爪。害毒塗之。外形柔和內懷瞋恚。爾時調達憶佛所說。瞿曇沙門恒陳此言。有身無瘡痏不為毒所害。毒無奈瘡何。無惡無所造。我今當往佯如懺悔。以爪摑壞其脚。毒氣流溢自當取死。諸人輦輿往詣世尊。去三七仞語左右人。下我在地吾欲步往。尋下在地。時勇火沸出纏裹其身。將入地獄（出調達生身入地獄經）。

Devadatta was in Rājagṛha, plotting murder in his mind, and later the matter was exposed. Then King Ajātaśatru said to Devadatta, "You should leave the kingdom; you must not stay here. None among the sixteen great kingdoms fails to hear that Devadatta commits evil against the Tathāgata." Having heard this, Devadatta harboured grief within. Ensnared by resentment, he returned to his home country and insolently entered the Bodhisattva's inner palace, saying to Gopī, "I wish to install you as my foremost lady; I wonder if the holy lady will permit it?" Gopī said to him, "Extend your right hand; I wish to hold it." Devadatta stretched out his hand and let her grasp it. She crushed his wrist bone and blood came from his five fingers; at that moment he fell unconscious and revived only after a long time. Then Devadatta went further into the palace and sat upon the Bodhisattva's couch. When the palace attendants saw him, they seized and threw him off the couch, injuring his left hip so that he could not walk. He was carried on a litter back to his residence. The Śākyas all despised him and came to tell him, "You should now go to the Buddha and repent." Hearing this, Devadatta secretly devised a clever deceit: he made iron claws in secret and smeared them with deadly poison, looking gentle on the outside while harbouring fury within. At that time Devadatta recalled the Buddha's words: "The śramaṇa Gautama always says this: 'One whose body is without wounds is not harmed by poison; poison cannot affect what has no wound; without evil, nothing is created.' I will now go, pretending to repent, scratch and tear his feet with my claws, and when the poisonous vapour spreads, he will naturally meet his death." Men carried him on a litter to the Bhagavat. Twenty-one fathoms away, he told the attendants, "Put me down on the ground; I wish to walk." As soon as he was put on the ground, leaping flames boiled forth, wrapped around his body, and dragged him down into hell. (From the Sūtra on Devadatta Entering Hell in His Physical Body.)