經律異相 28.30

28.30

瓶沙王問目連。何處天有好食。目連嘆曰。四天王天。瓶沙應生兜率。即念先生此天。後生兜率。命終為毘沙門王太子。名曰最勝子。如目連施設所說。始人者以胸臆行名為摩睺勒。生三手眾生名為象。問曰。何故說人。或是摩睺勒。或是象。答曰。謂彼眾生從光音天終來生於此。當時生畜生中。但形如人。飲食惡意惡巧詐滋多。故人相轉滅遂成畜生。形如蝦蟇（出鞞婆沙第十四卷）。

King Bimbisāra asked Maudgalyāyana, "Which heaven has fine food?" Maudgalyāyana praised [it], saying, "The heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings." Bimbisāra was due to be reborn in Tuṣita, but he immediately thought, "I would rather be born first in this heaven, and later be reborn in Tuṣita." Upon the end of his life, he became the crown prince of King Vaiśravaṇa, named Jetṛ (Most Victorious Son). As spoken in Maudgalyāyana's Prajñapti: the primal beings who moved on their chests were called mahoragas; the beings born with three hands were called elephants. It is asked, "Why are they spoken of as humans, yet either mahoragas or elephants?" The answer is, "Those beings, after their lives ended in the Ābhāsvara heaven, came to be born here. At that time they were born among animals, but their shapes resembled humans. Because their eating and drinking, evil thoughts, and wicked deceit increased so much, the human marks gradually vanished and they finally became beasts, in form like toads." (Extracted from the Vibhāṣā, Fascicle Fourteen).