法苑珠林 10.58

10.58

如佛本行經云。爾時作瓶天子欲令太子出向園林觀看好惡發厭心故漸教捨離。爾時太子聞是聲已。即喚馭者可速嚴飾好車。今欲向園觀看。時淨飯王知太子欲出。勅宣令迦毘羅城。一切內外悉遣灑掃清淨安雜香華。男女之者而莊嚴之。或有老病死亡六根不具者悉令驅逐。是時馭者裝飾車乘駕善調馬。悉嚴備已白太子言。聖子當知。今已駕訖。爾時太子從東門引道而出欲向園看。是時作瓶天子於街巷前。正當太子。變身化作一老弊人。太子見已即問馭者。此是何人。身體皺𧹞肉少皮寬。眼赤涕流極大醜陋獨爾鄙惡不似餘人。即向馭者而說偈言。

As the Fo benxing jing says: At that time, the devaputra Ghaṭīkāra, wishing to cause the prince to go out to the gardens and forests, see good and evil, and give rise to an aversion of heart so that he might gradually be taught to renounce them. At that time, the prince, having heard that sound, immediately summoned his charioteer, [saying,] "Speedily adorn a fine chariot; I now wish to go to the gardens to view them." When King Śuddhodana learned that the prince wished to go out, he issued an edict ordering that inside and outside the city of Kapilavastu everything be swept clean and strewn with assorted fragrant flowers, and that men and women adorn themselves; anyone who was old, sick, dead, or whose six sense organs were deficient was to be driven away completely. Then the charioteer harnessed well-trained horses and adorned the chariot. When everything was fully prepared, he addressed the prince: "Holy Son, you should know that the harnessing is now complete." Then the prince set out, led forth through the eastern gate, wishing to go to the gardens to view them. At that time the devaputra Ghaṭīkāra, in the street ahead directly in front of the prince, transformed his body into an old and decrepit man. Seeing him, the prince asked the charioteer, "What kind of person is this? His body is wrinkled, his flesh scarce, his skin loose; his eyes are red, his snot flows, he is exceedingly ugly, and he alone is vile and wretched, unlike other people." Then he spoke a verse to the charioteer: