法苑珠林 10.30

10.30

爾時佛告優陀夷言。汝優陀夷。應當悟解。彼時師子諸獸王者即我身是。時彼牸虎者今瞿多彌釋女是也。時彼諸獸現今五百釋童子是。當於彼時。其瞿多彌已嫌諸獸。意不願樂。聞我說偈即作我妻。今日亦然。捨諸釋種五百童子。既嫌薄已取我為夫。又因果經云。時太子至年十七。王集諸臣而共議言為訪索婚。有一釋種婆羅門。名摩訶那摩。其人有女名耶輸陀羅。顏容端正聰明智慧賢才過人。人禮備舉。有如是德。故索為妃。太子雖納為妃。然常與妃行住坐臥。未曾有世俗之意。但修禪觀。又普曜經云。時諸力士釋種長者啟王。若太子作佛斷聖王種。王曰。何所有玉女宜與太子為妃。以權方便令當試之。使上工匠玄端金像以書文字。女人德義如吾所流能應𮜷耳。王告左右梵志。入迦夷衛國。偏瞻周行覩一玉女。淨猶蓮華類玉女寶。是執杖釋種女名俱夷。見太子奇異才術。以女俱夷為菩薩妃。又年十七。王為納妃。簡選數千。最後一女。名曰裘夷。端正第一神義備舉。是則宿命賣華女也。雖納為妃久而不接。婦人情欲有附近心。太子曰。汝却女人有污垢必污此褻。婦不敢近。諸女咸疑太子不男。太子以手指妃腹曰。却後六年爾當生男。遂以有娠。又五夢經云。太子有三妃。第一妃姓瞿曇氏。是舍夷長者女。長者名水光。其婦名餘明。婦居近邊城。生女之時日將欲沒。餘明照其家內皆明。因立字之瞿夷（此云明女）即是太子第一妃也。第二妃生羅雲名耶檀。亦名耶輸。其父名移施長者（案瑞應本起善權眾經及智度論。並云。羅睺羅是第二耶輸生。依五夢十二游經等云。第一妃生。十二游經。前無如是。復闕流通。恐是西方諸羅漢。別集釋前卷已會之）第三妃名鹿野。其父名釋長者。太子以三妃。故白淨王為立三時殿（依西方。一年立為三時。春夏冬。不別立秋。用四月為一時。故云三時殿也）殿別有二萬婇女。以娛樂太子。太子不出家時。身作轉輪王。別名遮迦越王（此云飛行皇帝）。

At that time the Buddha told Udāyin: "Udāyin, you should understand this: the lion, king of beasts at that time, was myself. The tigress was the Śākya maiden Gautamī today. Those beasts are the five hundred Śākya youths today. At that time, Gautamī already disliked those beasts and had no desire for them; hearing my verse, she immediately became my wife. Today it is just the same: having forsaken the five hundred youths of the Śākya clan and slighted them, she took me as her husband." Furthermore, the Sūtra on Cause and Effect says: When the prince reached the age of seventeen, the king gathered his ministers to consult together on arranging a marriage. There was a Śākya brāhmaṇa named Mahānāman who had a daughter named Yaśodharā, with fair countenance, bright and wise, of virtuous talent surpassing others, fully possessed of decorum. Having such virtues, she was sought as consort. Although the prince took her as his consort, though walking, standing, sitting, and lying down together with her, he never had any worldly thoughts, cultivating only dhyāna and contemplation. Furthermore, the Lalitavistara-sūtra says: At that time the Śākya champions and elders addressed the king: "If the prince becomes a Buddha, the lineage of universal monarchs will be severed." The king said: "Where is there a jewel woman suitable to be consort to the prince? We shall test them through expedient means." He ordered master craftsmen to fashion dark robes and gold statues inscribed with characters, stating that only a woman endowed with virtue matching his standards could qualify. The king told the brāhmans around him to enter the kingdom of Kapilavastu to observe far and wide. They saw a jewel woman, pure as a lotus blossom, resembling the jewel woman of a universal monarch. She was the daughter of the Śākya Dandapāṇi named Gopī. Seeing the prince's extraordinary skills, Dandapāṇi gave his daughter Gopī to be the Bodhisattva's consort. Again, at age seventeen, the king sought a consort for him. After screening several thousands, the very last maiden was named Gopī, foremost in beauty, fully endowed with spiritual virtues; she was the flower girl from his past life. Although taken as consort, for a long time they did not unite. Women naturally have carnal desire and wished to draw near. The prince said: "Step back! Women have defilements that will surely soil these garments." The woman dared not approach. All the women suspected the prince was not a man. The prince pointed to the consort's belly with his finger, saying: "Six years from now, you will give birth to a boy." Thereupon she became pregnant. Furthermore, the Pañcasvapna-sūtra says: The prince had three consorts. The first consort was of the Gautama clan, the daughter of elder Śākyan. The elder was named Shuiguang (Water Light), and his wife was named Yuming (Remaining Brightness). The wife lived near the border city; when she gave birth to the daughter, the sun was about to set, but the remaining brightness illuminated their house thoroughly. Therefore she was named Gopī (meaning "Bright Maiden"); she was the prince's first consort. The second consort gave birth to Rāhula, named Yetan, also named Yaśo. Her father was the elder Yi-shi. (According to the Rulying benqi, Shanquan zhong jing, and the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra, all say that Rāhula was born to the second consort, Yaśodharā. Relying on the Pañcasvapna and the Shi'eryou jing, they say he was born to the first consort. The Shi'eryou jing originally lacked this, and its transmission was deficient; it is feared that arhats of the western regions compiled them separately, as explained in the preceding fascicle.) The third consort was named Mṛgī, and her father was the elder Śākya. Because the prince had three consorts, King Śuddhodana built three-season palaces for him. (According to the western regions, a year is divided into three seasons: spring, summer, and winter; autumn is not separately established, four months being treated as one season; hence they are called three-season palaces.) Each palace had twenty thousand court maidens to entertain the prince. If the prince had not left home, he would have become a cakravartin, also called a Cakravartin-rāja (meaning an "emperor of flight").