經律異相 46.15

46.15

乾闥婆王。住雪山右城。名毘舍離。世界初成有風輪起。名曰莊嚴。造此宮城。城北有七黑山。山北復有香山。在十寶山間。常有伎樂之聲（大智論云是天樂神）山有二窟。一名晝。二名善晝。七寶所成柔軟香潔。猶如天衣。乾闥婆王。從五百乾闥婆止住其中。佛在毘陀山（出在摩竭國北）。釋提桓因告執樂神。般遮翼持瑠璃琴於佛前歌。佛曰。汝能以琴歌稱讚如來。悲和哀婉感動人心。於此聲中云。欲縛淨行沙門涅槃眾義備有。帝釋顧語之曰。當以汝補汝父位。於其類中為最上。以女妻之（出長阿含經大智論）。

The Gandharva King resides in a city on the right of the Snow Mountains named Vaiśālī. When the world was first formed, a wind-wheel arose named Adornment, which created this palace city. To the north of the city are seven black mountains, and north of the mountains is the Fragrant Mountain, situated among ten jewelled mountains, where sounds of music are constantly heard (the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says they are the celestial musicians). The mountain has two caves: the first is named Day, and the second Good Day. They are composed of the seven jewels, soft, fragrant, and clean, like celestial garments. The Gandharva King resides in their midst accompanied by five hundred gandharvas. When the Buddha was on Mount Vediyaka (located north of Magadha), Śakra Devānām Indra instructed the musician deity Pañcaśikha to hold a lapis lazuli lute and sing before the Buddha. The Buddha said, "You are able to praise the Tathāgata with lute and song; your sorrowful, harmonious, and plaintive tunes move human hearts. In these sounds, you express how desire binds, pure conduct, the śramaṇa, and nirvāṇa—all these meanings are fully present." Śakra looked at him and said, "I will appoint you to your father's position, to be the supreme among your kind, and give you a wife." (from the Dīrghāgama and the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra).