經律異相 39.33

39.33

優陀羅摩子。有王。常施其食。若食時至。以神足力飛騰虛空詣於王宮。王即迎抱坐金床上。以諸仙人所食之味而供養之。時彼仙人飯食已竟。除器澡漱說偈呪願飛空而去。是王後時。以國事故應詣餘處。無人給事仙人。仙人性躁。或起瞋恚而呪咀我。或失王位或斷我命。便問其女。仙人若來如我常法汝能供養不。女答言能。時王重約勅女盡心奉養。然後乃行。營理國事。後日食時仙人飛來。王女如王法。躬身迎抱坐金床上。王女身體細軟。仙人觸女退失神足。飲食訖。除器澡漱說偈呪願。欲飛不能。時王宮中有後園林。即入其中欲修神足。聞象馬車乘之聲而不得修。時城中人恒作是念。若令大仙在地行者。我等當得親近禮足。仙人聰明黠慧善知方便。語王女言。汝今宣告城中人民。今日大仙當從王宮步行而出。汝等人民所應作者皆悉作之。時彼王女如其所勅。即便宣告。街陌清淨無瓦礫糞穢。懸幡燒香散種種花。嚴飾鮮潔。仙人步出去城不遠。入林樹間欲修神足。聞眾鳥聲修不能得。便捨林樹復詣河邊。以其本法欲修神足。復聞水中魚鼈迴轉之聲。而不得修。便上山上作是思惟。我今所以退失善法皆由眾生。凡我所有善法淨行。使我當作如是眾生。能害世間所見地行飛行水性眾生。無免我者。發是惡誓願見。離八地欲生非想非非想有頂處。開甘露門寂靜園田。八萬劫中處閑靜樂。業報盡已乃還此間。答波樹林曇摩阿蘭若處。作著翅狸。身廣五十由旬。兩翅各廣五十由旬。其身量百五十由旬。以此大身殺害空行水陸眾生。無得免者。身壞命終生阿鼻地獄（出抄毘曇毘婆沙第三十三卷）。

To Udraka Rāmaputra, there was a king who constantly offered food. When the mealtime arrived, [the rishi] would use his supernatural powers to fly through the air and reach the royal palace. The king would personally receive and embrace him, seat him on a golden couch, and make offerings to him with the delicacies eaten by rishis. After the rishi had finished eating, he would remove the vessels, rinse his mouth, recite verses of blessing, and fly away through the air. Later on, because of state affairs, the king had to travel elsewhere. There was no one to attend to the rishi. [The king thought,] 'The rishi is volatile by nature. He might become enraged and curse me, causing me to lose my throne or ending my life.' He then asked his daughter, 'If the rishi comes, can you serve him according to my customary rule?' The daughter replied, 'I can.' The king then sternly charged his daughter to serve him wholeheartedly, and only then did he depart to attend to the affairs of state. The next day at mealtime, the rishi came flying in. The king's daughter, following the king's rule, personally received and embraced him, seating him on the golden couch. The king's daughter's body was delicate and soft; when the rishi touched the maiden, he lost his supernatural powers. Having finished his food and drink, he removed the vessels, rinsed his mouth, and recited verses of blessing. He wished to fly, but could not. At that time, there was a rear park in the royal palace. He immediately entered it, wishing to cultivate his supernatural powers, but hearing the sounds of elephants, horses, and carriages, he could not cultivate them. Meanwhile, the people of the city had constantly thought, 'If only the great rishi would walk on the ground, we would be able to draw near and prostrate at his feet.' The rishi was clever and discerning, skillful in expedients. He said to the king's daughter, 'You must now proclaim to the people of the city: “Today the great rishi will walk out on foot from the royal palace. Whatever you people should do, do it all.”' The king's daughter followed his instructions and made the proclamation at once. The streets and lanes were cleaned, cleared of rubble and filth; banners were hung, incense was burned, and various flowers were scattered, adorning everything so that it was fresh and clean. The rishi walked out not far from the city and entered among the forest trees, wishing to cultivate his supernatural powers. Hearing the calls of various birds, he could not succeed in cultivating them. He then left the forest trees and went to the riverbank, wishing to cultivate his supernatural powers according to his original method. Again, hearing the splashing sounds of fish and turtles in the water, he could not cultivate them. He then climbed to the mountaintop and thought thus: 'The reason I have lost my wholesome qualities today is entirely due to sentient beings. By whatever wholesome qualities and pure conduct I possess, may I become such a sentient being that I can harm all sentient beings seen in the world—those walking on the ground, flying through the air, or living in water—with none escaping me.' Having made this evil vow and wishing to see it fulfilled, he detached from the desires of the eight stages and was born in the Summit of Existence, the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception. Opening the gate of nectar, [dwelling in] the tranquil park and field, he dwelt in quietude and bliss for eighty thousand kalpas. When his karmic retribution was exhausted, he returned to this place, in the Dāpa forest at the Dharma-āraṇya, becoming a winged fox (flying fox/civet). Its body was fifty yojanas wide, each of its two wings was fifty yojanas wide, and its body measured one hundred and fifty yojanas. With this immense body, he killed airborne, aquatic, and terrestrial sentient beings, with none able to escape. When his body broke up and his life ended, he was born in the Avīci hell. (From the thirty-third fascicle of the Excerpted Abhidharma-vibhāṣā)