[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 40.14 # 法苑珠林 40.14 法苑珠林 40.14 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [40.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40.14) 又阿育王經云。昔阿恕伽王。欲取阿闍世王所舉舍利。阿闍世王著殑伽河中作大鐵劍輪。使水輪轉著舍利處。種種方便取不能得。問蓮華比丘。云何可得。比丘答言。擲數千斛柰著中可得止輪。尋用此語。以柰著於水中。偶試一柰。柰墮機關孔中。劍輪即定更不迴轉。然大龍王守護都不可得。王時問言。何由可得。龍王福勝無由可得。問言。云何知彼福勝。以金鑄作龍像及以王像。以秤稱之。重者福勝。即時稱量龍像倍重。王見此事即勤修福。既修福已復更鑄像。復更稱量。王像龍像稱量正等。王更修福復更鑄像。稱看王像轉重。王知像重。將諸軍眾往到水邊。龍王自出獻種種寶。王語龍言。阿闍世王遺我舍利。我今欲取。龍王自知威力不如。即將王至舍利所。開門取舍利與。阿闍世王所造油燈始欲盡賜。舍利既出燈亦盡滅。王怪而問蓮華比丘。云何阿闍世王裁量油燈。至取舍利方始乃滅。尊者答言。彼時有善算者。計百年中用爾許油用如是計故使至今也。 > Furthermore, the Aśokāvadāna says: Formerly, King Aśoka wished to take the śarīra that King Ajātaśatru had deposited. King Ajātaśatru had set up a great iron sword-wheel in the Gaṅgā River, making the water turn the wheel where the śarīra were placed; by various expedients he could not obtain them. He asked the monk Utpalavarṇa (Lianhua): “How can they be obtained?” The monk answered: “Tossing several thousand hu of crab apples into the water can stop the wheel.” Following these words, he tossed crab apples into the water. Trying one crab apple by chance, the crab apple fell into the aperture of the mechanism, and the sword-wheel immediately halted and no longer turned. However, a great dragon king was guarding them, so they could not be obtained at all. The king then asked: “By what means can they be obtained?” \[The monk said:\] “The dragon king's merit is superior, so by no means can they be obtained.” He asked: “How is it known that his merit is superior?” \[The monk replied:\] “Cast statues of the dragon and of the king in gold, and weigh them on a scale; the one that is heavier has superior merit.” Immediately weighing them, the dragon's statue was twice as heavy. Seeing this, the king diligently cultivated merit. Having cultivated merit, he cast the statues again and weighed them again; the king's statue and the dragon's statue weighed exactly the same. The king cultivated further merit and cast the statues again; looking at the weight, the king's statue had become heavier. Knowing the statue was heavier, the king led his armies to the water's edge. The dragon king came out of his own accord and offered various kinds of jewels. The king said to the dragon: “King Ajātaśatru bequeathed me the śarīra; I now wish to take them.” The dragon king knew of himself that his power was not equal, so he led the king to the place of the śarīra, opened the door, and took the śarīra to give him. The oil lamp that King Ajātaśatru had made was just on the point of running out; once the śarīra were brought out, the lamp was completely extinguished. The king marvelled and asked the monk Utpalavarṇa: “How did King Ajātaśatru measure the oil lamp so that it was only extinguished just as the śarīra were taken?” The venerable one answered: “At that time, there was an expert reckoner who calculated the amount of oil used in a hundred years; using such a calculation, he caused it to last until now.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 40.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40.13) - [Next: 40.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40.15) - [Up: 40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.40.14) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [阿育王傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.divyavadana.asokavadana*zh-anfaqin.7.18) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.40.14) · Pramāṇa