經律異相 42.4

42.4

跋提城有大居士。字曰琝茶（彌沙塞律作文茶）饒富珍寶有大威力。隨意所欲周給人物。倉中有孔大如車軸。穀米自出。婦以八斗作飯。飴四部兵及四方來者。食故不盡。其兒以千兩金與四部兵及四方乞者。隨意不盡。兒婦以一裹香塗。四部兵并四方來乞者隨意令足。香故不盡。奴以一犁日耕七壟。出米滋多。其婢以八斗穀。與四部兵𩚅馬。馬食不盡。家中共爭各言。我是福力。琝茶詣佛頭面作禮（出四分律分第四卷）。

In the city of Bhaddiya, there was a great householder named Meṇḍhaka (written as Wentu in the Mahiśāsaka Vinaya). He had abundant rare treasures and great power and influence, providing people and things with whatever they wished. In his granary there was a hole as large as a cart axle, from which grains naturally poured forth. His wife cooked rice from eight dou [of grain], feeding an army of four divisions and visitors arriving from the four directions, yet the food was still not exhausted. His son gave a thousand liang of gold to an army of four divisions and mendicants from the four directions according to their desires, yet it was not exhausted. His son's wife took a bundle of incense paste, anointing an army of four divisions and those who came to beg from the four directions, satisfying them as they wished, yet the incense was still not exhausted. A male servant plowed seven furrows a day with a single plow, yielding an abundance of rice. A female servant fed the horses of an army of four divisions with eight dou of grain, and the horses could not finish eating it. Those in the household disputed among themselves, each saying, "This is due to the power of my merit." Meṇḍhaka went to the Buddha, prostrated with his head and face to the ground, (Extracted from the fourth fascicle of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya)