法苑珠林 43.22

43.22

如雜阿含經云。爾時世尊晨朝著衣持鉢。共諸比丘入王舍城乞食。時彼世尊光相普照如千日之焰。順邑而行。時彼有兩童子。一者上姓。二者次姓。共在沙中嬉戲。一名闍耶。二名毘闍耶。遙見世尊來。三十二大人相莊嚴其體。時闍耶童子心念。我當以麥[麩-夫+少]手捧。細沙著世尊鉢中。時毘闍耶合掌隨喜。而發願言。以惠施善功德令得一天下繖蓋王。即於此生得供養佛。乃至得成無上正覺故。世尊發微笑相。爾時阿難見世尊微笑。即便合掌向佛白言。世尊。非無因緣而發微笑。爾時世尊告阿難曰。我今笑者。其有因緣。阿難當知。我滅度百年之後。此童子於巴連弗邑統領一方為轉輪王。姓孔雀。名阿育。正法治化。又復廣布我舍利。當造八萬四千法王之塔安樂無量眾生。如偈所說。

As the Saṃyuktāgama says: 'At that time, in the morning, the World-Honoured One put on his robes, took his bowl, and entered Rājagṛha with the bhikṣus to beg for food. At that time, the World-Honoured One's marks of light shone everywhere like the radiance of a thousand suns as he walked through the city. At that time, there were two boys, one of high birth and the other of secondary birth, playing together in the sand. One was named Jaya and the other was named Vijaya. Seeing from afar the World-Honoured One approaching, his body adorned with the thirty-two marks of a great man, the boy Jaya thought to himself: "I should take roasted barley meal in my hands and place fine sand into the World-Honoured One's bowl." At that time, Vijaya joined his palms in joyful approval, and made a vow, saying: "Through the wholesome merit of this generous gift, may he become a parasol-bearing king over one realm under heaven, and in this very life make offerings to the Buddha, even until attaining unsurpassed complete enlightenment." For this reason, the World-Honoured One showed a smile. At that time, Ānanda, seeing the World-Honoured One smile, immediately joined his palms toward the Buddha and said: "World-Honoured One, it is not without causes and conditions that you smile." At that time, the World-Honoured One told Ānanda: "There is a cause and condition for my smiling now. Ānanda, you should know that one hundred years after my nirvāṇa, this boy will govern a region in the city of Pāṭaliputra as a wheel-turning king, of the Maurya clan, named Aśoka. He will govern and transform beings with the True Dharma, and will also widely distribute my śarīras, building eighty-four thousand stūpas for the King of the Dharma to bring peace and joy to countless sentient beings." As the gāthā says: