法苑珠林 5.22

5.22

又折伏羅漢經云。昔忉利天宮有一天。壽命垂盡有七種瑞現。一項中光滅。二頭上華萎。三面色變。四衣上有塵。五腋下汗出。六身形瘦。七離本座。即自思惟。壽終之後下生鳩夷那竭國疥癩母猪腹中作豚。甚預愁苦不知何計。餘天語言。今佛在此為眾說法。唯佛能脫卿之罪耳。即到佛所稽首作禮未及發問。佛知告曰。一切萬物皆歸無常。汝素所知。何為憂愁。得離豚身常誦三自歸。如是三日却後七日天即壽盡下生維耶離國。作長者家子。在母胞胎日三自歸。始生墮地亦跪自歸。其母免身又無惡露。母傍侍婢怖而棄走。母亦深怪。謂之熒惑意欲殺之。父知貴子令好養之。年向七歲與其輩類於道邊戲。遇舍利目連。兒前作禮。眾聖驚怪。具說天上事。此兒請佛到家。佛為說經。兒及父母內外親屬皆得阿惟越致。此云不退（依經天有多種。具如前三界篇中三十二門說。今對六道略述四門）。

Furthermore, the *Subduing the Arhat Sutra* says: Formerly, in the palace of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven, there was a deva whose life was drawing to a close, and seven kinds of omens appeared: first, the light from his neck went out; second, the flowers on his head withered; third, his facial complexion changed; fourth, dust appeared on his clothes; fifth, sweat flowed from beneath his armpits; sixth, his bodily form grew emaciated; seventh, he left his original seat. He then contemplated for himself that after his life ended, he would descend to be born in the belly of a mangy sow in the country of Kuśīnagara as a piglet. He felt extreme sorrow and anguish in advance, not knowing what plan to make. Another deva said to him, 'Now the Buddha is here preaching the Dharma for the assembly. Only the Buddha can liberate you from your transgressions.' He immediately went to the Buddha's place, bowed with his head to the ground, and before he could ask, the Buddha, knowing, told him, 'All things without exception return to impermanence. You have always known this; why be sorrowful? To be freed from a pig's body, constantly recite the three refuges.' He did so for three days, and seven days later the deva's life ended, and he descended to be born in the country of Vaiśālī as the son of an elder's household. While in his mother's womb, he took the three refuges three times a day. When first born, falling to the ground, he also knelt and took the refuges himself. His mother delivered him without lochia. The maidservants attending the mother were terrified and ran away. The mother also found it deeply bizarre, thought it was a demonic delusion, and intended to kill him. The father knew he was an exceptional son and ordered that he be well cared for. When he was approaching the age of seven, playing by the roadside with his peers, he encountered Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana. The boy came forward and bowed. The noble ones were astonished and marvelled; he fully recounted the events in heaven. This boy invited the Buddha to his home, and the Buddha preached the sutra for them. The boy, his parents, and his inner and outer relatives all attained avaivartika, which here is translated as non-retrogression. (According to the sutras, there are many kinds of heavens, fully explained in the thirty-two sections of the earlier chapter on the Three Realms; here, in relation to the six destinies, four sections are briefly set forth.)