法苑珠林 55.6

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如增一阿含經云。爾時有長者名阿那邠邸。其家大富不可稱計。爾時滿富城中有長者。名曰滿財。亦大富饒財。復是邠邸少小舊好共相敬愛。邠邸長者常有千萬寶貨。在滿富城中販賣。使滿財長者經紀。然滿財長者亦有數千萬寶。在舍衛城中販賣。使邠邸經紀。是時邠邸有女名須摩提。顏貌端正如桃華色。世之希有。爾時滿財見須摩提女端正。見已問邠邸曰。此是誰家女。邠邸報曰。是我所生滿財曰。我有小息未有匹偶。可適貧家不。時邠邸報曰。事不宜爾。滿財問曰。以何等故。邠邸報曰。種姓財貨足相詶匹。所事神祠與我不同。此女事佛。汝事外道。以是之故不赴來意。滿財報曰。我等所事自當別祀。此女所事別自供養。邠邸報曰。我女設當適汝家者。彼此各出財寶不可稱計。滿財問曰。汝今索幾許財寶。邠邸報曰。我今須六萬兩金。是時長者即與六萬兩金。邠邸以方便前却猶不能使止。語彼長者曰。設我嫁女當往問佛。若有教勅我當奉行。是時阿那邠邸即往至世尊所。白世尊曰。須摩提女為滿富城中滿財長者所求。為可與不。世尊告曰。若須摩提女適彼國者。多所饒益。度脫人民不可稱量。聞已禮退。還至家中。共辦飲食。與滿財長者。滿財問曰。我不用食。但嫁女與我不耶。邠邸報曰。欲爾者便可却後十五日使兒至此。作是語已便退而去。是時滿財長者辦具所須。乘寶羽之車。從八十由延內來。邠邸復莊嚴己女。乘寶羽之車。將女往迎中道相遇。滿財得女便將至。滿富城中人民之類。各作制限。若此城中有女出適他國者。當重刑罰。若他國取婦將入國者。亦重刑罰。爾時彼國有六千梵志。國人所奉。制限有言犯者當飯六千梵志。長者自知犯制即飯六千梵志。梵志所食純食猪肉及重釀之酒。又梵志所著衣服。或被白㲲。或被毳衣。以衣偏著右肩半身露現。即白時到入長者家。長者見來膝行前迎恭敬作禮。最大梵志舉手稱善。抱長者頸往詣座所。各隨坐訖。時長者語須摩提女曰。汝自莊嚴向我師禮。須摩提女報曰。止止大家。我不堪任向裸形人禮。長者報曰。此非裸形。但所著衣是其法服。須摩提女報曰。此無慚愧之人。皆共露形。有何法服之用。世尊所說。世人所貴有慚有愧。若無此二則尊卑無異。共猪犬無別。我實不堪向作禮拜。時須摩提夫語其婦曰。汝今可起向我師作禮。此諸人等皆是我所事天。婦報曰。且止。我不禮此無慚愧裸形人。令我向驢犬作禮。夫曰。勿作是言。自護汝口勿有所犯。此非驢非狗。但所著之衣正是法衣。是時須摩提女洟零悲泣顏色變異。並作是說。寧斷命根終不墮此邪見之中。時六千梵志各共高聲。何故使此婢罵詈乃爾。是諸梵志已食少多便去。是時滿財長者在高樓上煩冤愁惋。我今取此來。便為破家辱我門戶。時有梵志。名曰修跋。得五神通往長者家。上高樓上。與長者相見。梵志問長者曰。何故愁憂。長者報曰。昨因為兒娶婦。具說前緣。梵志報曰。此女所事之師。皆是梵行之人。今日現在甚奇甚特。長者問曰。汝為外道異學。何故歎譽沙門釋子。有何神德。有何神變。梵志報曰。欲聞神德今粗說原。此女所事之師最小弟子。名曰均頭沙彌。飛來詣阿耨達泉洗垢之衣。阿耨大神天龍鬼神皆起前迎恭敬問訊。善來人師可就此坐。却後坐食。食竟盪鉢在金案上。跏趺正身次第入九次第定。是時天龍鬼神。與蹋洗衣舉著空中而曝使乾。時彼沙彌收攝衣已。便飛在空還歸所在。長者當知。最小弟子有此神力。況最大者。何況如來至真正覺。而可及乎。是時長者語梵志曰。我等可得見此女所事師乎。梵志報曰。可還問此女。是時長者問須摩提女曰。吾今欲得見汝所事師。能使來不。女聞歡喜不能自勝。願時辦具飲食。明日如來當來至此。及比丘僧。長者報曰。汝今自請。吾不解法。是時長者女沐浴身體手執香火。上高樓上叉手向如來。而歎之曰。

As the Ekottarika-āgama says: At that time, there was an elder named Anāthapiṇḍada, whose household was exceedingly wealthy beyond reckoning. At that time, in the city of Pūrṇa, there was an elder named Mancai, who was also exceedingly rich in wealth. He was also an old friend of Biṇḍi from their youth, and they respected and loved each other. Elder Biṇḍi regularly had tens of millions in precious goods sold in the city of Pūrṇa, employing elder Mancai to manage it. Elder Mancai likewise had tens of millions in treasures sold in the city of Śrāvastī, employing Biṇḍi to manage it. At this time, Biṇḍi had a daughter named Sumagadhā, whose countenance was upright and fair as the color of a peach blossom, rare in the world. At that time, Mancai saw the daughter Sumagadhā was upright and fair. Having seen her, he asked Biṇḍi, saying: 'Whose daughter is this?' Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'She is my offspring.' Mancai said: 'I have a young son who has not yet taken a mate. Could she marry into my poor home?' Then Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'It would not be fitting.' Mancai asked, saying: 'For what reason?' Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'Our clans and wealth are sufficient to match each other. But the shrines and deities we serve are not the same as mine. This girl serves the Buddha; you serve heterodox paths. For this reason, I cannot comply with your intention.' Mancai replied, saying: 'The deities we serve will naturally be worshiped separately; the one this girl serves will be given separate offerings.' Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'If my daughter were to marry into your house, both sides would provide treasures beyond reckoning.' Mancai asked, saying: 'How much treasure do you demand now?' Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'I now require sixty thousand ounces of gold.' At that time, the elder immediately gave sixty thousand ounces of gold. Biṇḍi used expedients to decline and turn it away, but still could not make him desist. He spoke to that elder, saying: 'If I marry my daughter off, I must go and ask the Buddha. If there are instructions, I shall follow them.' At that time, Anāthapiṇḍada immediately went to where the World-Honoured One was and addressed the World-Honoured One, saying: 'My daughter Sumagadhā has been sought by elder Mancai of the city of Pūrṇa. May I give her or not?' The World-Honoured One told him, saying: 'If your daughter Sumagadhā goes to that country, it will be of great benefit, delivering people beyond measure.' Having heard this, he bowed and withdrew, returning to his home. Together they prepared food and drink and gave it to elder Mancai. Mancai asked, saying: 'I do not need food; will you just give your daughter in marriage to me or not?' Biṇḍi replied, saying: 'If you wish it to be so, then after fifteen days you may have your son come here.' Having spoken these words, [Mancai] then withdrew and departed. At that time, elder Mancai prepared all that was necessary, rode in a carriage of precious feathers, and came from within eighty yojanas. Biṇḍi also adorned his daughter, rode in a carriage of precious feathers, and led his daughter to go meet him, encountering them midway. Mancai received the daughter and then led her along. The people of the city of Pūrṇa each had made a regulation: 'If a daughter from this city goes out to marry into another country, she shall be heavily punished. If one takes a wife from another country and brings her into the country, he shall also be heavily punished.' At that time, there were six thousand brāhmaṇas in that country whom the countrymen venerated. The regulation stated that one who violated it must feed the six thousand brāhmaṇas. The elder, knowing he had violated the regulation, immediately fed the six thousand brāhmaṇas. What the brāhmaṇas ate was purely pork and heavily brewed wine. Furthermore, the clothes worn by the brāhmaṇas: some wore white cotton, some wore woollen clothes; wearing the clothes draped over the right shoulder, half their bodies were exposed. Then they announced that the time had arrived and entered the elder's house. When the elder saw them coming, he went forward on his knees to welcome them and respectfully made prostrations. The eldest brāhmaṇa raised his hand and praised him as good, embraced the elder's neck, and proceeded to the seating area; each took their seats in order. Then the elder spoke to the daughter Sumagadhā, saying: 'Adorn yourself and pay homage to my masters.' The daughter Sumagadhā replied, saying: 'Stop, stop, master! I cannot bear to pay homage to naked people.' The elder replied, saying: 'These are not naked; rather, the clothes they wear are their Dharma robes.' The daughter Sumagadhā replied, saying: 'These shameless people all expose their forms together; what use are they as Dharma robes? As the World-Honoured One said, what worldly people value is having shame and having conscience. If they lack these two, then the noble and lowly are no different, no different from pigs and dogs. I truly cannot bear to make prostrations to them.' Then Sumagadhā's husband spoke to his wife, saying: 'You may now arise and make prostrations to my masters. These people are all the gods I serve.' The wife replied, saying: 'Cease for now! I will not bow to these shameless naked people, making me pay homage to donkeys and dogs.' The husband said: 'Do not speak such words. Guard your mouth and do not transgress! These are neither donkeys nor dogs; rather, the clothes they wear are precisely Dharma robes.' At this time, the daughter Sumagadhā wept tears in sorrow, her countenance changing, and she spoke, saying: 'I would rather sever my life-faculty than ever fall into these deviant views!' At that time, the six thousand brāhmaṇas all raised their voices together: 'Why do you let this maidservant curse us like this?' These brāhmaṇas, having eaten a little, then departed. At that time, elder Mancai on the high tower was distressed, sorrowful, and aggrieved: 'Now that I have brought this one here, it has broken my household and disgraced my family gate.' At that time, there was a brāhmaṇa named Xiuba who had attained the five supernormal knowledges. He went to the elder's house, went up to the high tower, and met with the elder. The brāhmaṇa asked the elder, saying: 'Why are you worried and sorrowful?' The elder replied, saying: 'Yesterday, on account of taking a wife for my son...' and fully told of the previous circumstances. The brāhmaṇa replied, saying: 'The masters served by this girl are all persons of brahma-conduct. Living today, they are exceedingly wonderful and extraordinary.' The elder asked, saying: 'You are an adherent of heterodox, external teachings; why do you praise the śramaṇas, the sons of Śākya? What divine virtue do they have? What divine transformations do they have?' The brāhmaṇa replied, saying: 'If you wish to hear of their divine virtues, I will now briefly state the source. The youngest disciple of the master this girl serves is named the śrāmaṇera Cunda. Flying to the Anavatapta lake to wash his soiled robes, the great deity Anavatapta, devas, nāgas, ghosts, and spirits all arose, came forward to welcome him, and respectfully inquired after him: "Welcome, teacher of men! You may take this seat." Sitting back, he ate. Having finished eating, he rinsed his bowl upon a golden tray, sat cross-legged with an upright body, and sequentially entered the nine sequential meditative attainments. At that time, the devas, nāgas, ghosts, and spirits trampled and washed his robes, lifting them into the sky to dry them in the sun. At that time, that śrāmaṇera gathered his robes and then flew through the air, returning to his place. Elder, you should know: if the youngest disciple has such supernormal powers, how much more so the eldest? How much more so the Tathāgata, the supremely true and fully enlightened one, could he ever be equalled?' At this time, the elder spoke to the brāhmaṇa, saying: 'Can we manage to see the master this girl serves?' The brāhmaṇa replied, saying: 'You can return and ask this girl.' At this time, the elder asked the daughter Sumagadhā, saying: 'I now wish to see the master you serve. Can you make him come?' Hearing this, the girl was overjoyed beyond measure: 'Please prepare food and drink in time; tomorrow the Tathāgata will come here, along with the saṃgha of bhikṣus.' The elder replied, saying: 'You must invite him yourself; I do not understand the Dharma.' At this time, the elder's daughter bathed her body, held incense and fire in her hands, went up to the high tower, joined her palms toward the Tathāgata, and praised him, saying: