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經律異相 29.18

經律異相 29.18

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Classical Chinese

29.18

國人送美女上優填王。王大欣悅。拜女父為太傅。為女興宮。伎樂千人以給侍之。王正后師事如來得須陀洹道。王後受譖前后。以百箭射后。后見不懼都不恚怒。一心念佛慈意向王。箭皆遶后三匝還住王前。百箭同爾。王惕然驚懼。即駕白象金車馳詣佛所。稽首佛足自陳曰。吾有重咎在三尊所。婬妖縱欲興邪。於佛聖眾生毒惡心。白衣弟子慈力乃爾。豈況如來乎。我今首過歸命三寶。唯願弘慈原赦我咎(出優田王經)。

The people of the realm presented a beautiful woman to King Udayana. The king was greatly delighted. He appointed the woman's father as Grand Tutor, built a palace for the woman, and provided a thousand female musicians to wait upon her. The king's primary queen served the Tathāgata as her teacher and had attained the stage of stream-enterer (srotāpanna). Later, the king accepted slander against the primary queen and shot a hundred arrows at her. When the queen saw this, she was not afraid and felt no anger at all; with a single mind she was mindful of the Buddha and directed compassionate thoughts toward the king. Every arrow circled the queen three times and returned to stop before the king; all one hundred arrows did the same. The king was filled with alarm and fear. He immediately mounted a white elephant and a golden chariot, and hurried to where the Buddha was. He bowed his head at the Buddha's feet and confessed, saying: 'I have committed a heavy transgression before the Three Honoured Ones. Lewd and bewitched, indulging my desires, I gave rise to perversity and harboured a poisonous and evil mind against the Buddha's holy assembly. If a lay disciple's power of compassion is such as this, how much more so that of the Tathāgata! I now confess my fault and take refuge in the Three Jewels. May your vast compassion forgive and pardon my offense.' (From the Sūtra of King Udayana)

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