法苑珠林 56.7

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如賢愚經云。昔佛在時舍衛國有一長者。豪貴巨富生一男兒。面貌端正世所希有。父母歡喜。因為立字名檀彌離。年漸長大其父命終。波斯匿王即以父爵而以封之。受王封已。其家舍宅變成七寶。諸庫藏中悉皆盈滿種種寶物。時王太子字毘琉璃。遇得熱病。諸醫處藥啟王云。須牛頭旃檀用塗其身當得除愈。王即募覓。若有得者。一兩之直賞金千兩。無持來者。有人白王。檀彌離家舍內大有。時王聞已躬自往求。到檀彌離長者門前。見其外門純是白銀。即遣門人入通消息。時守門人入白長者。波斯匿王今在門外。長者聞已即出奉迎。請王入宮。王入門內見有一女。面首端正世間無比。坐白銀床紡白銀縷。小女十人侍從左右。時王問言。是卿婦耶。長者答言。是守門婢其小女者。通白消息。次入中門純紺琉璃。門內有女坐琉璃床。面首端正倍勝於前。左右侍從倍復前數。次入內門純以黃金。門內一女面首端正。轉復倍勝。坐黃金床紡黃金縷。左右侍從復倍上數。王復問言是卿婦耶。長者答言。是守門婢。入到舍內見琉璃地。屋間剋鏤種種百獸。風吹動之形現地上。王見謂水。悑不敢前。語長者言。餘更無地殿前作海。彌離白王。是琉璃地。非是水也。即脫手上七寶環玔擲著于地。礙壁乃住。王知地已即共入內昇七寶殿。婦在殿上坐琉璃床。更有寶床請王令坐。時婦見王眼中淚出。王問之言。何故不喜眼中淚出婦答。大王。但於今者聞王身上煙氣。是以淚出。王即問言。家不然火耶。答言不也。王復問言。用何作食。婦答曰。須食之時百味自至。王復問言。夜不須明耶。婦答王言。用摩尼珠而以照之。遍室大明。時檀彌離跪白王曰。大王。何故勞屈尊神到此。波斯匿王具以事答。長者聞已即將王入遍示諸藏。七寶盈滿。牛頭香積不可稱計。王須任取。王取二兩遣人先送。王敬語之。今有佛出。卿聞不耶。彌離答言。云何名佛。王即為說。彌離歡喜即往佛所。佛為說法得須陀洹。尋即出家得阿羅漢。三明六通具八解脫。阿難見已而白佛言。此檀彌離。宿植何業生於人中受天福報。又值世尊出家得道。佛告阿難。乃往過去九十一劫。有佛出世。號毘婆尸。入涅槃後。於像法中有五比丘。共立要契在一林中。精勤修道。語一比丘。此去城遠乞食勞苦。汝當為福一夏乞食供養我等。其一比丘即便入城。勸諸檀越日為送食。四人身安專精行道得阿羅漢。即語此人。緣汝之故我等安隱。所作已辦。汝願何等。其人聞已歡喜發願。使我來世天上人中富貴自然值佛獲道。緣是功德。從是以來九十一劫不墮惡道。天上人中常處豪貴。所須自然。今值我故出家得道。

As the Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish says: In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, there was an elder in the kingdom of Śrāvastī who was noble, prestigious, and immensely wealthy. A son was born to him, whose facial features were upright and handsome, rare in the world. His parents rejoiced, and because of this, they gave him the name Danmili (Dhammila). As he gradually grew up, his father passed away. King Prasenajit then enfeoffed him with his father's rank. After he received the royal investiture, his family dwelling transformed into the seven treasures, and all the storehouses became completely filled with various precious things. At that time, the crown prince of the king, named Virūḍhaka, contracted a fever. The physicians prescribed medicine and reported to the king, saying: “We require ox-head candana [sandalwood] to smear upon his body, and then he will be cured.” The king immediately sought it through a reward, stating: “If anyone possesses it, the value of a single ounce will be rewarded with a thousand ounces of gold.” Yet no one brought any. Someone informed the king: “Within the residence of Danmili, there is a great abundance.” When the king heard this, he personally went to seek it. Arriving before the outer gate of Elder Danmili, he saw that the outer gate was of pure white silver. He then sent the gatekeeper within to announce the news. The gatekeeper entered and informed the elder: “King Prasenajit is now outside the gate.” Hearing this, the elder came out to receive him and invited the king to enter the palace. Entering the gate, the king saw a woman whose facial features were upright and handsome, peerless in the world, seated on a white silver couch spinning white silver thread, with ten maidens attending to her left and right. The king asked: “Is this your wife?” The elder answered: “She is a gate-keeping maidservant, and those young maidens convey announcements.” Next, entering the middle gate, it was of pure dark-blue lapis lazuli. Inside the gate was a woman seated on a lapis lazuli couch, whose facial features were twice as beautiful as the previous one, and the attendants to her left and right were twice the previous number. Next, entering the inner gate, it was purely of yellow gold. Inside the gate was a woman whose facial features were even twice as beautiful again, seated on a gold couch spinning gold thread, with attendants to her left and right twice the previous count. The king again asked: “Is this your wife?” The elder answered: “She is a gate-keeping maidservant.” Entering into the inner residence, [the king] saw a floor of lapis lazuli. Between the chambers were carved representations of the various hundreds of beasts, which swayed when blown by the wind, casting their reflections upon the ground. Seeing them, the king thought it was water and was frightened, not daring to advance. He said to the elder: “Was there no other ground, that you made a sea before the hall?” Mili informed the king: “This is a lapis lazuli floor; it is not water.” He then took off a bracelet of the seven treasures from his arm and threw it onto the ground; it slid until it was stopped by the wall. Knowing it was solid ground, the king then entered together with him and ascended the hall of the seven treasures. The wife was in the hall seated on a lapis lazuli couch. There was another precious couch, and she invited the king to be seated. At that moment, when the wife saw the king, tears came from her eyes. The king asked her: “Why are you displeased, that tears come from your eyes?” The wife answered: “Great King, it is only that just now I smelled the odor of smoke on the king's body, and therefore my tears fell.” The king then asked: “Does your family not light fires?” She answered: “No.” The king again asked: “What do you use to prepare food?” The wife answered: “When it is time to eat, the hundred delicacies arrive of their own accord.” The king again asked: “Do you not require illumination at night?” The wife answered the king: “We use maṇi jewels to illuminate it, and the entire room is brilliantly lit.” Then Danmili knelt and said to the king: “Great King, for what reason have you troubled your noble majesty to come here?” King Prasenajit answered him fully with the circumstances. Having heard this, the elder took the king within and showed him all the storehouses; they were filled with the seven treasures, and the heaps of ox-head incense were incalculable. The king was free to take whatever he needed. The king took two ounces and sent someone to deliver them ahead. The king respectfully said to him: “Now a Buddha has appeared in the world. Have you heard of him?” Mili replied: “What is meant by ‘Buddha’?” The king then explained it to him. Mili rejoiced and immediately went to the Buddha's presence. The Buddha preached the Dharma for him, and he attained the fruit of srotāpanna. Soon after, he went forth from the household life and attained arhatship, endowed with the three knowledges, the six supernatural powers, and the eight liberations. Seeing this, Ānanda said to the Buddha: “What karma did this Danmili plant in the past, that he was born among humans yet enjoyed the blessed retribution of a deva, and furthermore encountered the World-Honoured One, went forth from the household life, and attained the Way?” The Buddha told Ānanda: “Ninety-one kalpas ago in the distant past, there was a Buddha who appeared in the world named Vipaśyin. After he entered nirvāṇa, during the Semblance Dharma, there were five bhikṣus who made a mutual agreement to dwell in a forest and diligently cultivate the Way. They said to one bhikṣu: ‘This place is far from the city, and begging for food is toil and hardship. For the sake of merit, you should beg for food for one summer to make offerings to us.’ That one bhikṣu thereupon entered the city and exhorted various dānapatis to deliver food daily. With their bodies at peace, the four individuals concentrated their efforts, practiced the Way, and attained arhatship. They then said to this person: ‘Because of you, we are secure and at peace, and what was to be done has been accomplished. What do you wish for?’ Having heard this, that person rejoiced and made a vow: ‘May I in future lives, whether in the heavens or among humans, naturally enjoy wealth and honor, encounter a Buddha, and attain the Way.’ On account of this merit, from that time onward for ninety-one kalpas he did not fall into the evil destinies. In the heavens and among humans he was always among the noble and wealthy, with whatever he required coming naturally. Now, having encountered me, he has gone forth from the household life and attained the Way.”