經律異相 36.11

36.11

昔有迦羅越長者。聰明博達財富巨億。居近海邊。多植樹木榮茂參天。時海渚上大有珍寶。價直千億如人不得近。唯鳥往來。唯噉明月之珠。朝入暮出。栖宿長者叢林。長者多智方便圖之。即作百味之食。以用與鳥。鳥食之飽滿便吐珠覆地。長者得之。遂成大富（出譬喻經第七卷）。

Formerly there was an elder householder who was intelligent and widely learned, with wealth amounting to billions. He lived near the seashore and planted many trees that flourished and reached the heavens. At that time, upon an island in the sea, there were great quantities of rare treasures worth thousands of billions; yet humans could not approach, and only birds came and went. They ate only bright-moon pearls, entering in the morning and leaving in the evening, roosting in the elder's grove. The elder was full of wisdom and devised an expedient: he prepared food of a hundred flavours and gave it to the birds. When the birds had eaten to satiety, they vomited the pearls, covering the ground. The elder gathered them and thereupon became exceedingly wealthy (extracted from the seventh fascicle of the Avadāna-sūtra).