法苑珠林 10.32

10.32

如智度論云。菩薩有二夫人。一名劬毘耶。是玉女不孕。二名耶輸陀羅。菩薩出家。夜有人言。太子出家何得有娠。污辱我門釋種欲以火坑焚燒母子。耶輸自恨無事立大誓言。我若邪行其腹內兒。願母子隨火消化。耶輸發此願已即投火坑。於是火滅母子俱存。火變蓮池母處華座。知實不虛。後生兒似菩薩身。父王大喜。作百味歡喜丸奉佛。佛變五百比丘。皆如佛身。羅睺持丸與佛鉢中。方驗不虛。又大善權經云。疑菩薩非男是黃門。故納瞿夷釋氏之女。羅雲於天變沒化生。不由父母合會而有。

As the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says: The Bodhisattva had two wives. One was named Gopī, a jewel woman who was barren. The second was named Yaśodharā. When the Bodhisattva left home, someone said at night: "Now that the prince has left home, how can she be pregnant? Defiling our clan!" The Śākyas wanted to throw mother and child into a fire pit to burn them. Yaśodharā, aggrieved by the baseless accusation, made a great vow: "If I have committed improper conduct, let the child in my belly and the mother perish with the fire!" Having made this vow, Yaśodharā leaped into the fire pit. Thereupon the fire was extinguished, and both mother and child survived unharmed. The fire turned into a lotus pond, with the mother seated upon a lotus seat, proving her truthfulness. Later, she gave birth to a child whose body resembled the Bodhisattva's. The father-king was overjoyed. He prepared delightful sweetmeats of a hundred flavors to offer to the Buddha. The Buddha manifested five hundred monks who all looked identical to the Buddha's body. Rāhula held the sweetmeat and placed it directly into the Buddha's bowl, thereby confirming the truth. Furthermore, the Great Upāyakauśalya-sūtra says: Because people suspected the Bodhisattva was not a man but a eunuch, he took the Śākya maiden Gopī as wife. Rāhula manifested through transformation from heaven, coming into being without the union of parents.