法苑珠林 12.71

12.71

佛告阿難。如前寶塔今在香山。世尊涅槃時。付囑帝釋及以四天王。世尊涅槃竟將往戒壇。南華林外安置九十日。待迦葉結集竟。最初於[葶-丁+呆]本。寫出三藏教。次令阿闍世王又寫出五本。用我黃金印及以白銀印。印迦葉初本及闍王寫者。須用七寶印印迦葉[葶-丁+呆]本。次以七寶印印魔王寫者。梵王寫三本可用白銀印。帝釋寫七本可用黃金印。娑竭龍王寫八萬經本者。俱三色印總以印定之。令流布閻浮提及三天下。皆用印之。既印經已。還內金瓶中。住戒壇南者。為迦葉結集三藏諸教文義皆令圓備。欲令阿難隨問出經令無遺忘。由此二事令鎮戒壇南。迦葉入定後。四王帝釋將塔及金瓶。往至香山頂。經一百年。帝釋四王將諸天樂日日來供養法。為彼山中五通神仙其數八萬次第於此閻浮洲作粟散王不信正法者。為令生信故鎮香山。復為育王初不信我法。迴彼邪見。令生正見。興八萬塔。

The Buddha told Ānanda: "The previously mentioned jeweled stūpa is presently on Mount Gandhamādana. When the World-Honoured One enters parinirvāṇa, it will be entrusted to Śakra and the Four Heavenly Kings. After the World-Honoured One enters parinirvāṇa, they will take it to outside the southern Hualin [grove] of the ordination platform and place it there for ninety days, awaiting the completion of Kāśyapa's compilation. First, on palm leaves, the teachings of the Tripiṭaka will be written out. Next, King Ajātaśatru will be ordered to transcribe five copies again. Use my golden seal and silver seal to seal Kāśyapa's original copy and those written by King Ajātaśatru. A seven-jeweled seal must be used to seal Kāśyapa's palm-leaf copy. Next, use the seven-jeweled seal to seal the one written by the demon king. For the three copies written by the Brahmā king, a silver seal may be used. For the seven copies written by Śakra, a golden seal may be used. For the eighty thousand scripture copies written by the nāga king Sāgara, all three-colored seals are to be used together to seal and authenticate them completely. Have them circulated throughout Jambudvīpa and the other three continents, all stamped with these seals. Once the sūtras have been stamped, return them inside the golden vase. The reason it remains south of the ordination platform is so that the texts and meanings of all the Tripiṭaka teachings compiled by Kāśyapa will be made fully complete, and so that Ānanda may recite the sūtras as questioned without any forgetting. Due to these two matters, it was made to stabilize the south of the ordination platform. After Kāśyapa enters samādhi, the Four Heavenly Kings and Śakra will take the stūpa and the golden vase and proceed to the summit of Mount Gandhamādana. For one hundred years, Śakra and the Four Heavenly Kings will bring various heavenly music every day to make offerings to the Dharma. In that mountain, there are eighty thousand rṣis possessing the five supernatural powers who will successively become minor regional kings in this continent of Jambudvīpa and who do not believe in the saddharma; it stabilizes Mount Gandhamādana in order to lead them to generate faith. Furthermore, it is because King Aśoka at first will not believe in my Dharma; it is to turn his false views around, cause him to generate right view, and erect eighty thousand stūpas."