[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 4.4 # 經律異相 4.4 經律異相 4.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4.4) 如來昔在久遠劫時。行菩薩道。為大國王。父母崩亡。讓國與弟。獨行求道。見一婆羅門。姓瞿曇氏。從之受學。因同其姓。入於深山。禪思念道。乞食還國。國人不識。呼小瞿曇。自於城外甘蔗園中。起立精舍。有五百大賊。劫盜官財。經園邊過。明日步蹤遂錄菩薩。以木貫身立大樹下血流於地。大瞿曇氏飛來問曰。有何罪酷乃至爾乎。官人放弩射而殺之。大瞿曇泣下沾棺。取血濕土以為泥團。持還精舍。置左右二器中曰。是道士若至誠者。天神當使血化為人。却後十月左即成男。右即成女。姓瞿曇氏。男名舍夷。賢劫中寶佛時又號釋迦。越壽五百萬歲者是也（出十二遊經）佛在摩竭提界。善勝道場元吉樹下。德力降魔。度二估客。惟定光如來。拜吾佛名云。汝於來世九十一劫。當得作佛。字釋迦文。十號具足。如我今也。吾從是來。積功累行。六度四等修持不勌。功報無遺大願成果（出中本起上卷）。 > In the distant past, during countless kalpas, when the Tathāgata was practicing the bodhisattva path, he was the king of a great country. After his parents passed away, he yielded the kingdom to his younger brother and went forth alone to seek the Way. Meeting a brāhmaṇa whose clan name was Gautama, he received instruction from him and consequently adopted the same clan name. He entered deep into the mountains to practice dhyāna contemplation and reflect on the Way. When he returned to the kingdom to beg for food, the people of the country did not recognize him and called him the Lesser Gautama. Outside the city walls, in a sugarcane grove, he established a monastery. Five hundred great thieves, having looted the royal treasury, fled past the garden. The next day, tracking their footprints, \[the authorities\] arrested the Bodhisattva. Piercing his body with a wooden stake, they stood him under a large tree, and his blood flowed onto the ground. The Greater Gautama flew there and asked, "What heinous crime did you commit to come to this?" An officer shot an arrow from a crossbow and killed him. The Greater Gautama wept, his tears moistening the coffin; taking the blood-soaked earth, he molded it into balls of clay, carried them back to the monastery, and placed them into two vessels on the left and right, saying: "If this man of the Way was utmost in sincerity, the heavenly gods shall cause the blood to transform into human beings." Ten months later, the vessel on the left became a boy, and the one on the right became a girl, with the clan name Gautama. The boy was named Sheyi. During the Bhadrakalpa, in the time of the Buddha Ratna, he was also called Śākya; this was he whose lifespan exceeded five million years. (Extracted from the Shier you jing) > When the Buddha was in the realm of Magadha, beneath the original auspicious tree at the auspicious bodhimanda, through the power of virtue he subdued Māra and delivered two merchants. He recalled: Dīpaṅkara Tathāgata conferred upon our Buddha his name, saying: "In a future age, after ninety-one kalpas, you shall become a Buddha, named Śākyamuni, complete with the ten epithets, just as I am now." From that time onward, I accumulated merit and piled up practice, cultivating without wearying the six perfections and the four immeasurables; my karmic rewards have been without omission, and my great vow has borne fruit. (Extracted from the upper fascicle of the Zhong benqi jing) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4.3) - [Next: 4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4.5) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.4.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.4.4) · Pramāṇa