[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) › 23.4 # 經律異相 23.4 經律異相 23.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23.4) 婆伽婆在羅閱城。時跋陀羅比丘尼。出比丘園在一樹下。端坐繫念自識宿命便笑。諸比丘尼見即問之。跋陀羅比丘尼言。我自識宿命。過去九十一劫。有毘婆式如來。出現於世。有一童子。名跋羅摩提婆。饒財多貨極富無量。童子執寶蓋從舍出。有一長者婦。端正無比。亦從彼過。有眾多人民皆悉觀察。時童子便作是念。我今擎寶蓋。眾寶合成從此路過。然無人觀察我者。此長者婦。我今當設方便使眾人觀察我。時童子手執寶蓋。便出彼境界。詣毘婆式如來所。住如來後擎寶蓋。經七日七夜。作此誓願言。持我供養世尊功德。當為女身端正無比。使有見者迷惑偃地。童子壽終。生三十三天為天女。有五事勝。云何為五。天壽天色天樂天神足天增上功德。天見此女皆懷希望欲得與俱。時三十三天皆各共諍。天女壽終來生人間為后若達多婆羅門作女。端正殊妙。往反人天常得端正。多值諸佛悉皆承事供養。求為女人。後生人間卑賤婆羅門家。為月光童子作婢。名曰幾羅。月光童子婦名摩奴訶羅。端正無比。時月光夫人語彼婢言。汝出舍外。若見沙門婆羅門者將來至此。我欲惠施。時婢出舍。有辟支佛。在門閾上乞食。時幾羅婢語言入來。欲相惠施。夫人見其體不端正。語幾羅言。發遣沙門我不施也。婢言。願尊開意莫嫌沙門形狀。供養功德不可稱計。時夫人報言。速驅此沙門出。我不堪施。婢報言。若尊不施此沙門者。我今日所應得分食願莫愛惜。時夫人即以\[麩-夫+少\]與婢。時幾羅婢。即以分\[麩-夫+少\]著辟支佛鉢中。食已身昇虛空。時婢見歡喜不能自勝。便作誓願。持是功德莫墮惡趣。使我當來久遠恒值此聖。為我說法使速解脫。時波羅奈城梵摩達多王。見彼辟支佛昇在虛空。語群臣言。彼所惠施。時月光長者。將五百賈客集大講堂。遙見辟支佛執鉢昇空。或有賈客作是說。此聖人必於我家得食。時大月光夫人。見為幾羅婢言。汝所得功德。持惠施我。此則是我所惠施。我今更持食與汝。婢言不施。又言。我今與汝二分食。對曰。亦不須。夫人又言。與汝三分五分十分二十分乃至百分千分。幾羅婢言。我不相施。夫人報言。設汝不與我者。我當截汝耳鼻手。幾羅婢言。我不相施。時長者婦。以杖打婢。打之已竟。月光長者還來。見幾羅婢。頭破衣裂悲泣墮淚。問其始末。具以事白。時月光童子。取彼夫人持用作婢。以幾羅婢作第一夫人。五百婇女圍遶。以百千珍寶莊嚴其身。時梵摩達多王。聞月光婢飯彼辟支佛。時梵摩達多王。以百千兩珍寶以餉月光長者婦。復以田業惠施月光長者。時梵摩達多王。今伽毘羅摩奢羅是。月光長者大迦葉是。幾羅婢者即我身是。今得值佛得阿羅漢（出跋陀羅比丘尼經）。 > When the Bhagavat was in the city of Rājagṛha, the bhikṣuṇī Bhadrā left the bhikṣu park, sat upright under a tree, focused her mindfulness, recalled her own past lives, and smiled. Seeing this, the other bhikṣuṇīs asked her \[about it\]. The bhikṣuṇī Bhadrā said: “I remember my past lives. Ninety-one kalpas ago, the Tathāgata Vipaśyin appeared in the world. There was a young man named Brahmadeva who possessed immense wealth, abundant goods, and boundless riches. Holding a jeweled parasol, the youth came out of his house. A guild elder’s wife, peerlessly upright and beautiful, also passed by there, and a great multitude of people were all gazing at her. The youth then thought to himself: ‘Now I hold a jeweled parasol fashioned from manifold gems and walk along this road, yet no one looks at me; they \[all look at\] this elder’s wife. I must now devise an expedient means to make the people look at me.’ Thereupon the youth, holding the jeweled parasol in hand, departed that territory, went to the Tathāgata Vipaśyin, and stood behind the Tathāgata holding up the jeweled parasol for seven days and seven nights. He made this vow, saying: ‘By the merit of my making offerings to the Bhagavat, may I be reborn as a woman of peerless beauty, so that anyone who sees me will be entranced and fall prostrate to the ground!’ When the youth died, he was born in the Trāyastriṃśa heaven as a heavenly maiden, supreme in five respects. What are the five? Celestial lifespan, celestial appearance, celestial joy, celestial supernatural powers, and superior celestial merit. When the devas saw this woman, they all cherished hopes of being united with her, and the devas of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven fought with one another. When the heavenly maiden’s lifespan ended, she was reborn in the human realm as the daughter of the brāhmaṇa Yajñadatta, upright and exquisite. Transmigrating between human and celestial realms, she was always beautiful, encountered many Buddhas, served and made offerings to them all, and sought to remain a woman. Later, she was born in the human realm into a lowly brāhmaṇa family as a maidservant to the youth Candraprahāsa, and her name was Kīrā. The wife of the youth Candraprahāsa was named Manoharā, peerlessly beautiful. At that time, the lady \[Manoharā\] said to that maidservant: ‘Go outside the house. If you see a śramaṇa or a brāhmaṇa, lead them here; I wish to give alms.’ The maidservant went out of the house. A pratyekabuddha was on the door threshold begging for food. The maidservant Kīrā said to him: ‘Come inside; \[she\] wishes to give you alms.’ When the lady saw that his body was not handsome, she said to Kīrā: ‘Send the śramaṇa away; I will not give to him.’ The maid said: ‘May my lady open her heart and not despise the śramaṇa’s appearance! The merit of making an offering \[to him\] is immeasurable.’ The lady answered: ‘Hurry and drive this śramaṇa out! I cannot bear to give to him.’ The maid replied: ‘If my lady will not give to this śramaṇa, please do not grudge the portion of food that I am to receive today.’ The lady immediately gave roasted barley flour to the maidservant. The maidservant Kīrā then placed her portion of roasted barley flour into the pratyekabuddha’s bowl. Having eaten, he ascended into the sky. When the maidservant saw this, overcome with joy, she made a vow: ‘By this merit, may I not fall into evil destinies, and throughout the distant future may I constantly encounter this holy one, who will teach me the Dharma and cause me to attain liberation quickly!’ At that time King Brahmadatta of the city of Vārāṇasī saw that pratyekabuddha rising into the air, and said to his ministers: ‘Where did he receive alms?’ At that time the elder Candraprahāsa had gathered five hundred merchants in a great lecture hall. Seeing from afar the pratyekabuddha holding his bowl and ascending into the sky, some merchants said: ‘This holy one must have received food at my home.’ At that time the lady Manoharā saw \[this\] and said to the maidservant Kīrā: ‘Transfer the merit you attained to me; this was my almsgiving. I will now give you more food in return.’ The maid said: ‘I will not give it.’ \[The lady\] spoke again: ‘I will now give you a two-fold share of food.’ She replied: ‘I have no need of it either.’ The lady said again: ‘I will give you three-fold, five-fold, ten-fold, twenty-fold, even a hundred-fold, a thousand-fold shares.’ The maidservant Kīrā said: ‘I will not give it to you.’ The lady retorted: ‘If you do not give it to me, I will cut off your ears, nose, and hands.’ The maidservant Kīrā said: ‘I will not give it to you.’ The elder’s wife then beat the maidservant with a stick. After she had finished beating her, the elder Candraprahāsa returned, saw the maidservant Kīrā with a broken head and torn clothes, weeping and shedding tears, and asked her what had happened from beginning to end. She reported the matter in full. The youth Candraprahāsa then demoted that lady to be a maidservant, made the maidservant Kīrā his principal wife, surrounded her with five hundred palace women, and adorned her body with hundreds of thousands of precious gems. When King Brahmadatta heard that the maidservant of Candraprahāsa had fed that pratyekabuddha, King Brahmadatta sent hundreds of thousands of ounces of precious treasures as a gift to the elder Candraprahāsa’s wife, and furthermore granted fields and estates to the elder Candraprahāsa. King Brahmadatta at that time was what is now Kapilavāstu. The elder Candraprahāsa was Mahākāśyapa. The maidservant Kīrā was my very self. Now I have met the Buddha and attained arhatship.” (Drawn from the Bhadrā Bhikṣuṇī Sūtra) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23.3) - [Next: 23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23.5) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.23.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.23.4) · Pramāṇa