經律異相 47.114

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佛在羅閱耆闍崛山。身有風患。耆域醫王為合蘇藥。用三十二種。日日服三十二兩。時提婆達常懷嫉妬。心自高大望與佛齊。効佛亦服注諸脈理。身力微弱苦惱呻喚。世尊怜愍手摩其頭。藥消病除看識佛手。曰。悉達餘術世不承用復學醫道。佛言。提婆達懷不善心不但今日。昔閻浮提城名波羅奈。王名梵摩達。凶暴無慈。夢見一獸。身毛金色毛端金光。即召獵師。我夢具以告之。汝等求捕。若得其皮當重賞汝。若不得者誅滅汝族。時諸獵師憂愁憒憒聚會議計。共募一人令行求之。若汝不吉還亦當以物與汝妻子。其人自念。分棄身命即可當行。涉嶮而去。經久身弊。天時暑熱欝蒸欲死。悲悴而言。誰有慈悲拯我身命。有一野獸名曰銘陀。身毛金色聞甚怜愍。身入冷泉來就裹抱。小還有力將至水所。為其洗浴拾果食之。體既平復。而自念言。今覩此獸王正求之。然我垂死賴其濟命。感恩未詶何心當害。若復不獲。彼諸獵師必被誅戮。念是而悲。銘陀問言以何不樂。答心所懷。銘陀語言。此事莫憂我皮易得。捨身無數未曾為福。今以身皮濟彼眾命。如有所獲。但剝取皮莫便絕命。我以施汝終無悔恨。獵師剝皮。銘陀即自立願。今我以皮用施此人。救彼愛命。持此功德施彼眾生。用成佛道普度一切。作此願已三千國土六反震動。剝皮去後身肉赤裸血出流離。復有八萬蠅蟻之屬。集其身上同時唼食。時欲趣穴復恐傷害。忍痛自持身不動搖。死於彼中。時諸蠅蟻食者命終生天。獵師擔皮上王。王見奇之常敷用臥。身心安隱快樂。獸銘陀者今我身是。梵摩達王今提婆達是。八萬諸蟲我初成佛始轉法輪。上八萬諸天得道者是（出賢愚經第三卷）。

When the Buddha was at Gṛdhrakūṭa Mountain in Rājagṛha, his body suffered from a wind ailment. The physician king Jīvaka compounded a ghee medicine for him using thirty-two ingredients, and each day the Buddha took thirty-two ounces. At that time Devadatta constantly harbored jealousy; in his heart he elevated himself, wishing to be equal to the Buddha. In imitation of the Buddha, he also took the medicine, and it poured into all his vessels. His physical strength grew feeble, and he groaned in bitter distress. The Bhagavat, moved with pity, stroked his head with his hand. The medicine dissolved, his illness was cured, and upon seeing and recognizing the Buddha's hand, he said, 'Siddhārtha, when the world no longer adopts your other arts, you have taken up studying medicine again!' The Buddha said, 'Devadatta's harboring of unwholesome intentions is not limited to today. In the past, in Jambudvīpa, there was a city named Vārāṇasī. Its king was named Brahmadatta, who was violent, cruel, and without compassion. In a dream he saw a beast whose fur was golden in color, with golden light shining from the tips of its hairs. He at once summoned the hunters, recounted the full details of his dream to them, and said, "Search for and capture it! If you obtain its skin, I will reward you richly; if you fail, I will wipe out your clan." Then the hunters were grieved and troubled. Gathering together to consult and devise a plan, they jointly recruited one man to go in search of it, saying, "If you meet with misfortune, we will provide for your wife and children with goods when you return." That man thought to himself, "Having resolved to cast away my life, I should just go." Traversing perilous paths, after a long time his body was exhausted. The weather was sweltering hot, and steaming heat brought him near death. In sorrow and distress he said, "Who has compassion to save my life?" There was a wild beast named Mingtuo whose body had golden fur; hearing this, it was filled with deep pity. It entered a cold spring, came and embraced him, and when his strength had somewhat returned, led him to the water, bathed him, and gathered fruits for him to eat. When the man's body was restored, he thought to himself, "Now I see this beast that the king is specifically seeking. Yet when I was near death, I relied on it to save my life. Having not repaid my gratitude, with what heart could I harm it? But if I do not obtain it, those hunters will certainly be executed." Thinking of this, he wept. Mingtuo asked him, "Why are you unhappy?" He replied with what was in his heart. Mingtuo said to him, "Do not worry about this matter; my skin is easy to obtain. I have cast away my body countless times without ever doing so for merit. Now, using my skin, I can save all those lives. If you take it, just flay the skin, but do not end my life immediately. I give it to you as an offering and will never harbor regret." The hunter flayed its skin. Mingtuo then made a vow: "Now I offer my skin to this man to save those precious lives. By this merit, I bestow it upon those living beings so as to accomplish the Buddha way and universally deliver all." After making this vow, the trichiliocosm quaked in six ways. After the skin was removed, its flesh was red and bare, and blood flowed profusely. Furthermore, eighty thousand flies and ants gathered on its body and fed on it at the same time. At that time it wished to retreat into its burrow, but feared it would harm them; so enduring the pain, it held itself still, its body not moving, and died there. The flies and ants that fed on it, at the end of their lives, were born in heaven. The hunter carried the skin and presented it to the king. When the king saw it, he marveled at it and constantly spread it out to sleep upon; his body and mind were at peace and full of joy. The beast Mingtuo was myself. King Brahmadatta was Devadatta. The eighty thousand insects are the eighty thousand deities who attained the Way when I first attained Buddhahood and began turning the wheel of the Dharma' (Extracted from the Damamūkanidāna-sūtra, fascicle 3).