法苑珠林 59.23

59.23

興起行經云。佛告舍利弗。往昔過去世。時於羅閱城有長者。名曰須檀。大富多饒財寶產業備足。子名須摩提。其父須檀奄然命終。摩提異母弟名修耶舍。摩提心念。我當云何設計不與耶舍財分。唯當殺之。乃得不與。摩提語耶舍云。大弟共詣耆闍崛山上論說去來。耶舍曰。可爾。摩提即執弟手上山。將至絕高。便推崖底以石𢈹之。便即命絕。佛語舍利弗。汝知爾時長者須檀者。則今父王真淨是也。爾時子須摩提者。則我身是。弟修耶舍者。則今提婆達多是。佛語舍利弗。我於爾時以貪財害弟。以是罪故無數千歲在地獄燒煮。為鐵山𢈹壓。爾時殘緣。今雖得佛不能免此宿對。我於耆闍崛山經行。為提婆達舉崖石長六丈廣三丈。以擲佛頭。山神名金埤羅。以手接石。石邊小片迸墮中佛脚大拇指。即破血出。

The *Xingqixing jing* states: The Buddha told Śāriputra: “In the past, during an age long gone, there was an elder in the city of Rājagṛha named Sudhana. He was very wealthy, possessing abundant treasures and fully endowed with property. He had a son named Sumati. His father, Sudhana, suddenly passed away. Sumati had a younger half-brother by a different mother named Suyaśas. Sumati thought to himself: ‘How can I devise a plan not to give Yaśas his share of the wealth? Only by killing him can I manage not to give it to him.’ Sumati said to Yaśas: ‘Elder brother, let us go up together onto Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa to converse and debate.’ Yaśas said: ‘Very well.’ Sumati then took his younger brother by the hand and went up the mountain. Leading him to the very highest point, he pushed him down to the bottom of the cliff and crushed him with stones, whereupon his life immediately ended. The Buddha told Śāriputra: “Do you know that the elder Sudhana at that time was none other than the present royal father, Śuddhodana? The son Sumati at that time was none other than myself. The younger brother Suyaśas was none other than the present Devadatta. The Buddha told Śāriputra: “At that time, out of greed for wealth, I harmed my younger brother. On account of this sin, for countless thousands of years I was burned and boiled in hell, crushed and pressed by iron mountains. Owing to a residue of karmic conditions from that time, even though I have now attained buddhahood, I could not escape this past retribution. While I was walking mindfully on Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa, Devadatta lifted a cliff boulder sixty feet long and thirty feet wide to hurl at the Buddha's head. A mountain spirit named Kumbhīra caught the stone with his hands. A small fragment from the edge of the stone flew off and struck the big toe of the Buddha's foot, which broke and bled.”