法苑珠林 59.8

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興起行經云。佛告舍利弗。過去久遠九十一劫。是時有王。名曰善說所造。有一婆羅門名延如達。好學廣博。常教五百豪族童子。復有一婆羅門。名曰梵天。大富饒財。婦名淨音。容貌第一。性行和調無嫉妬心。延如以梵天為檀越。其婦淨音供養延如四事無乏。有一辟支佛。名曰受學。往到城內乞食。偶至梵天門。淨音見辟支佛衣服齊整行步徐審。心甚歡喜。即請供養自今已去常受我請。即以美食滿鉢與之。辟支受已昇空七返迴旋飛還。時城內人見此神足。舉國歡喜供養無厭。淨音供養辟支日進。侍延如達遂薄。延如便興嫉妬。誹謗之言。此道人實無才德作不淨行。遂告五百弟子曰。此道人犯戒無精進行。諸童子各歸家宣令曰。此道人無有淨行。與淨音交通。國人咸疑。神足如是有此穢聲。邪聲經七年乃斷。於後辟支現十八變取於滅度。眾人乃知延如虛謗辟支佛。佛語舍利弗。爾時延如達者則我身是。爾時梵天者今優填王是。爾時淨音者今奢彌跋是。爾時五百童子者今五百羅漢是。佛語舍利弗。我於爾時因共供養故。便生嫉妬。共汝誹謗辟支佛。以是因緣共入地獄。鑊湯煎煮無數千歲。由是餘殃。今雖得佛故與汝等有奢彌跋之誹謗也。

The Sūtra on Karmic Conditions of the Buddha's Prior Deeds says: The Buddha said to Śāriputra: “Long ago in the past, ninety-one kalpas ago, there was at that time a king named Suvaktra-kṛta. There was a brāhmaṇa named Yajnidatta, who loved broad learning and constantly taught five hundred youths of noble families. There was also a brāhmaṇa named Brahmā, exceedingly wealthy and possessing great riches, whose wife was named Śuddhasvarā. Her appearance was foremost, and by nature and conduct she was gentle and harmonious, without jealousy. Yajnidatta took Brahmā as his dānapati, and his wife Śuddhasvarā made offerings of the four requisites to Yajnidatta without lack. There was a pratyekabuddha named Upasikṣa who entered the city to beg for food and happened to arrive at Brahmā's gate. Śuddhasvarā saw that the pratyekabuddha's robes were neat and orderly and that he walked slowly and mindfully, and her heart was filled with joy. She immediately invited him to receive offerings, [saying,] ‘From now on, please always accept my invitation.’ She then filled his bowl with delicious food and gave it to him. Having received it, the pratyekabuddha ascended into the air, circled seven times, and flew back. At that time, the people in the city saw this supernatural footstep; the whole country was filled with joy, making offerings insatiably. Śuddhasvarā's offerings to the pratyekabuddha increased day by day, while her attendance upon Yajnidatta consequently grew meager. Yajnidatta then gave rise to jealousy and words of slander: ‘This religious practitioner truly has no talent or virtue, and engages in impure conduct!’ He then told his five hundred disciples: ‘This religious practitioner violates the precepts and has no energetic practice.’ The youths each returned home and announced: ‘This religious practitioner has no pure conduct; he has intercourse with Śuddhasvarā.’ The people of the country all harbored doubts: ‘If he possesses such supernatural powers, how could there be this scandalous talk?’ The defamatory rumor lasted for seven years before it ceased. Afterwards, the pratyekabuddha manifested the eighteen transformations and entered parinirvāṇa. The multitude only then knew that Yajnidatta had falsely slandered the pratyekabuddha. The Buddha said to Śāriputra: ‘The Yajnidatta of that time was myself. The Brahmā of that time was King Udayana today. The Śuddhasvarā of that time was Ciñcā-māṇavikā today. The five hundred youths of that time were the five hundred arhats today.’ The Buddha said to Śāriputra: ‘Because of sharing offerings at that time, I gave rise to jealousy and together with you slandered the pratyekabuddha. Due to this karmic cause, we together entered the hells, boiled and stewed in cauldrons of boiling liquid for countless thousands of years. Owing to the residual misfortune of this, even though I have now attained buddhahood, together with you all there is still the slander by Ciñcā-māṇavikā.’”