經律異相 33.79

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時王不受兒語。以微沙落起多。置落可屋以火焚之。又復令殺德叉尸羅人。是時比丘生疑。問大德優波笈多云。鳩那羅先造何業今受此報。答言。昔波羅奈國有一獵師。至雪山中多殺群鹿。又往雪山遇雷電礔礰。有五百鹿。以怖畏故入石窟中。獵師捕之一切皆得。若皆殺者肉當臭爛。無如之何。即挑其兩眼使其不死而不知去。後漸殺之。先獵師者鳩那羅是。於無數年常在地獄。從地獄出生於人中。五百世內常被挑眼。今是最後餘殘果報。比丘又問。以何因緣生得大姓眼目端嚴。答言。過去久遠人壽四萬歲時。佛名迦羅鳩村大。出現於世入無餘涅槃。時有一王。名曰輸頗（梁言嚴）為佛起四寶塔。故時王命過。弟不信佛。皆掘取塔下物唯土木在。一切人民見塔毀壞。懊惱發聲。時諸長者子問。彼諸人何事懊惱。諸人答言。世尊之塔本有四寶。不謂於今悉皆毀壞。時長者子即以四寶如本莊嚴。復令高廣有勝於初。又起金像以置塔中。所作已訖。復發願言。迦羅鳩村大佛本為世間師。願我後師亦如今日。比丘當知。昔長者子即鳩那羅是。以其修治迦羅鳩村大如來塔故得生於大姓。以其造作如來像故今所得身端嚴第一。以其發願值善師故今遇釋迦。及見四諦（出阿育王經第四卷）。

At that time, the king did not heed his son's words. He placed Tiṣyarakṣitā into a lacquered house and burned her with fire, and furthermore ordered the execution of the people of Takṣaśilā. Then the bhikṣus felt doubt and asked the Venerable Upagupta, "What karma did Kuṇāla perform in the past to receive this retribution now?" He answered, "In the past, there was a hunter in the kingdom of Vārāṇasī who went into the snowy mountains and killed many herds of deer. Once, going to the snowy mountains, he encountered thunder and lightning. There were five hundred deer that entered a stone cave out of fear. The hunter caught them and took them all. If he killed them all, the meat would rot and stink, and nothing could be done with it. So he gouged out both eyes of each of them, so that they would not die but would not know how to escape. Later, he slaughtered them gradually. That hunter of former times was Kuṇāla. For countless years, he was constantly in hell. Emerging from hell and born among humans, for five hundred lifetimes he constantly had his eyes gouged out. The present is the final residue of that retribution." The bhikṣus also asked, "By what cause and condition was he born into a great clan and with stately eyes?" He answered, "Long ago in the past, when the human lifespan was forty thousand years, a buddha named Krakucchanda appeared in the world and entered nirvāṇa without remainder. At that time there was a king named Śubha (in the language of Liang, 'Adornment') who built a four-jewel stūpa for the Buddha. Later, when the king passed away, his younger brother did not have faith in the Buddha, and dug up and took the objects below the stūpa, leaving only earth and wood. When all the people saw the stūpa ruined, they cried out in anguish. Then the sons of elders asked, 'Why are those people grieving?' The people answered, 'The Bhagavat's stūpa originally had four jewels; we did not expect that it would now be completely destroyed.' Then the sons of elders restored it with the four jewels as originally adorned, making it taller and broader, surpassing its initial state, and also erected a golden image to place inside the stūpa. When the work was completed, they made a vow: 'The Buddha Krakucchanda was originally the teacher of the world; may my future teachers also be like this today.' Bhikṣus, you should know that the son of an elder in the past was Kuṇāla. Because he restored the stūpa of Krakucchanda Tathāgata, he was born into a great clan. Because he fashioned the image of the Tathāgata, the body he has now obtained is supremely stately. Because he made the vow to meet a good teacher, he has now met Śākyamuni and seen the Four Truths." (From the fourth fascicle of the Sūtra of King Aśoka).