經律異相 46.9

46.9

昔者阿修羅。興兵與天帝共戰。釋提桓因不如。乘千輻寶車怖懼而退。中路見腅娑羅樹。鳥巢有兩子。即勅御者。此樹有二鳥。汝可迴車避之。寧使來害我。勿傷此也。即便迴車。須輪遙見即相謂言。帝釋迴車必欲還戰。不可當也。即便退散天乃得勝（雜阿含經云叢林有金翅鳥巢謂是來戰大怖而走）須輪三事過閻浮提。一者宮殿高廣。二者宮殿莊嚴。三者宮殿清淨（出長阿含經第二十一卷）。

In the past, the asuras raised an army to fight the Lord of Heaven. Śakra Devānām Indra was not victorious; he rode in his thousand-spoke jewelled chariot and retreated in fear. On the road he saw a śāla tree with a bird's nest containing two chicks. He immediately ordered his charioteer, "This tree has two young birds. You must turn the chariot to avoid it. Better that they come and harm me than injure these!" He immediately turned the chariot around. When the asuras saw this from afar, they said to one another, "Śakra has turned his chariot; he surely wishes to return and fight. He cannot be withstood!" They immediately dispersed and retreated, and the heavens thus attained victory. (The Saṃyuktāgama says that in the grove there was a garuḍa nest; they thought he had come to fight, fled in great terror, and ran.) The asuras surpass Jambudvīpa in three matters: first, their palaces are tall and vast; second, their palaces are adorned; third, their palaces are pure (from the Dīrghāgama, fascicle 21).