經律異相 47.126

47.126

佛與諸比丘。受師質婆羅門請。還於耆闍。河邊洗器。安羅樹林有獼猴。行見一樹無蜂而有熟蜜。來就阿難求鉢。阿難不與。佛言但與。獼猴得鉢（彌沙塞律云求佛鉢）盛滿蜜以奉世尊。世尊不受令其水淨。獼猴不解。謂呼有蟲。將至水邊洗鉢。水漾蜜中捧還上佛（賢愚經云洗却赤蟲彌沙塞律。見蟲捨去。更取）佛分布眾僧皆悉周遍。獼猴歡喜騰躍却舞墮坑而死。為師質婦胎。後生男子形貌端正（彌沙塞律云。生三十三天。後生人間。得阿羅漢道）佛言。過去迦葉佛時。有一年少沙門。見阿羅漢跳渡涇水。謂凡比丘云。汝飄疾如獼猴。後五百世中常為獼猴（出賢愚經第十二卷。又出彌沙塞律第十卷。又出僧祇律第二十九卷）。

The Buddha, accompanied by the bhikṣus, accepted an invitation from the brāhmaṇa Śirṣa [?] and returned to Gṛdhrakūṭa. By the riverbank where they washed their utensils, in an āmra grove, there was a monkey. Walking about, he saw a tree without bees that was full of ripe honey. He came up to Ānanda and begged for a bowl. Ānanda would not give it to him. The Buddha said, “Just give it to him.” The monkey obtained the bowl (the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya says he begged for the Buddha's bowl) and filled it with honey to offer to the Bhagavat. The Bhagavat would not accept it and bade him clean it with water. The monkey did not understand and thought there were insects in it. He took it to the water's edge to wash the bowl, floated the water over the honey, and held it up to offer it again to the Buddha (the Sūtra of the Wise and Foolish says that he washed away red insects; the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya says that seeing insects, he discarded it and took more). The Buddha distributed it among the saṃgha, reaching every one of them. The monkey, leaping and dancing in joy, fell into a pit and died. He was reborn in the womb of the wife of Śirṣa [?] and later gave birth to a handsome boy (the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya says he was born into the Trāyastriṃśa heaven, was subsequently reborn among humans, and attained the path of an arhat). The Buddha said, “In the past, at the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, there was a youthful śramaṇa who saw an arhat leap across the Jing River. He said to an ordinary bhikṣu, ‘You are as nimble and swift as a monkey.’ Because of this, for five hundred subsequent lifetimes, he was continually a monkey.” (Extracted from the twelfth fascicle of the Sūtra of the Wise and Foolish; also found in the tenth fascicle of the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya; also found in the twenty-ninth fascicle of the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya.)