經律異相 8.10

8.10

佛告喜見。我滅盡時至。今夜涅槃。我法囑汝舍利相付當令流布廣設供養。喜見即以海此岸栴檀𧂐而燒之。收取舍利作八萬四千寶瓶。起八萬四千塔。雖是供養心猶未足。即於八萬四千塔前。燃百福莊嚴臂七萬二千歲。而以供養。無數求聲聞眾無量人發菩提心。皆得住現一切色身三昧。諸菩薩天人等見其無臂憂惱悲哀而作是言。一切眾生喜見菩薩是我等大師教化我者今不具足。喜見菩薩於大眾中誓言。我捨兩臂必當得佛。若實不虛令臂還復。當時三千世界六種震動天雨寶華。時其兩臂平復如故。佛告宿王華菩薩。時喜見者今藥王是。若有發心欲得無上菩提道者。能燃手指乃至足一指供養佛塔。勝以國城妻子及三千國土山林河池諸珍寶物而以供養佛及菩薩辟支阿羅漢等（出法花經第六卷）。

The Buddha told Sarvasattvapriyadarśana: 'The time of my complete extinction has arrived; tonight I shall enter nirvāṇa. I entrust my Dharma to you, and hand over my relics to you so that they may be widely distributed and offerings extensively made.' Sarvasattvapriyadarśana then took sandalwood from the near shore of the ocean to cremate him. Gathering the relics, he made eighty-four thousand jewel urns and erected eighty-four thousand stupas. Although he had made these offerings, his mind was still not satisfied. Thereupon, before the eighty-four thousand stupas, he burned his arms adorned with the hundred merits for seventy-two thousand years as an offering. Countless persons seeking the vehicle of śrāvakas and immeasurable people resolved their minds on bodhi, all attaining the samādhi of manifesting all physical forms. Seeing that he had no arms, the bodhisattvas, devas, humans, and others were sorrowful, distressed, and grieved, saying: 'The Bodhisattva Sarvasattvapriyadarśana is our great master who teaches and transforms us, yet now his body is incomplete!' The Bodhisattva Sarvasattvapriyadarśana made a vow in the midst of the great assembly: 'Having abandoned both arms, I shall certainly attain buddhahood. If this is true and not false, let my arms be restored.' At that moment, the trichiliocosm quaked in six ways, the heavens rained down jewel flowers, and both his arms were restored as before. The Buddha told the Bodhisattva Nakṣatrarāhasaṅkusumitābhijña: 'The Sarvasattvapriyadarśana of that time is Bhaiṣajyarāja today. If there is someone who gives rise to the mind aspiring to unsurpassable bodhi and can burn a finger or even a toe as an offering to a stupa of the Buddha, it surpasses making offerings of a kingdom, city, wife, children, or the mountains, forests, rivers, ponds, and various precious treasures of three thousand lands to buddhas, bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas, arhats, and the like (from the sixth fascicle of the Lotus Sūtra).'