經律異相 45.2

45.2

1. A long-haired woman gives her hair as an offering to the Buddha.
2. A lone mother sees a śramaṇa's supernatural powers and vows later to bear a hundred sons.
3. A pregnant woman encounters the Buddha and vows to dedicate her child to the Way.
4. While an old mother is miserly and sick, she sees hell, while her maidservant does good and beholds the heavenly halls.
5. A woman builds a house for a bhikṣu, dies, is born in heaven, and various objects emerge from her hands.
6. A mother whose two sons drowned cries and recognizes the one who floats.
7. A woman transforms her husband by hanging a bell above the door, causing him to chant the Buddha's name upon hearing the sound, and he subsequently escapes hell.
8. A woman of Campā dies and is cremated, giving birth to a son amid the fire.
9. The maiden Ciñcā conceals a wooden bowl to slander the Buddha, and the earth immediately splits open and she sinks into hell.
10. A lustful woman harasses a śramaṇa; through the śramaṇa's utmost sincerity, fire turns into water.
11. Fire-qi enters a young girl's body; she becomes pregnant and bears a handsome son.
12. A pregnant woman constantly recites sūtras, giving birth to a boy of great wisdom revered by all.
13. A pregnant woman gives birth to four kinds of strange things.
14. A woman's mind clings to a man, and she mistakenly ties her child into a well.
15. Borrowing and lending, taking much for oneself and returning little, at life's end one becomes a calf.
16. A maidservant cuts her food to give to a pratyekabuddha, immediately sheds her ugly appearance, and becomes a royal lady.
17. An ugly woman looks into water, sees another's reflection, and thinks herself handsome.