經律異相 42.4

42.4

In the city of Bhaddiya, there was a great householder named Meṇḍhaka (written as Wentu in the Mahiśāsaka Vinaya). He had abundant rare treasures and great power and influence, providing people and things with whatever they wished. In his granary there was a hole as large as a cart axle, from which grains naturally poured forth. His wife cooked rice from eight dou [of grain], feeding an army of four divisions and visitors arriving from the four directions, yet the food was still not exhausted. His son gave a thousand liang of gold to an army of four divisions and mendicants from the four directions according to their desires, yet it was not exhausted. His son's wife took a bundle of incense paste, anointing an army of four divisions and those who came to beg from the four directions, satisfying them as they wished, yet the incense was still not exhausted. A male servant plowed seven furrows a day with a single plow, yielding an abundance of rice. A female servant fed the horses of an army of four divisions with eight dou of grain, and the horses could not finish eating it. Those in the household disputed among themselves, each saying, "This is due to the power of my merit." Meṇḍhaka went to the Buddha, prostrated with his head and face to the ground, (Extracted from the fourth fascicle of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya)