法苑珠林 7.30

7.30

如起世經云。佛言。如憍薩羅國斛量胡麻。滿二十斛。高盛不概。有一丈夫。滿百年已取一胡麻。如是次第滿百年已。復取一粒擲著餘處。擲滿二十斛胡麻盡已。爾所時節我說其壽猶未畢盡。且以此數略而計之。如是二十頞浮陀壽為一泥羅浮陀壽。二十泥羅浮陀壽為一阿呼壽。二十阿呼壽為一呼呼婆壽。二十呼呼婆壽為一阿吒吒壽。二十阿吒吒壽為一搔揵提迦壽。二十搔揵提迦壽為一憂鉢羅壽。二十憂鉢羅壽為一拘牟陀壽。二十拘牟陀壽為一奔荼黎迦壽。二十奔荼黎迦壽為一波頭摩壽。二十波頭摩壽為一中劫。

As the Qishi jing states: The Buddha said: “Suppose there were a Kośalan bushel measure filled with twenty bushels of sesame seeds, heaped high and unlevelled. Suppose a man, whenever a full hundred years elapsed, were to remove one sesame seed; in this manner successively, whenever a full hundred years elapsed, he were to take another seed and cast it elsewhere. When he had cast out all the sesame seeds filling the twenty bushels, I say that their lifespan during that span of time would still not be exhausted. Let us calculate it provisionally with these numbers: a lifespan of twenty Arbudas equals one Nirarbuda lifespan; twenty Nirarbuda lifespans equal one Ahaha lifespan; twenty Ahaha lifespans equal one Hahava lifespan; twenty Hahava lifespans equal one Aṭaṭa lifespan; twenty Aṭaṭa lifespans equal one Saugandhika lifespan; twenty Saugandhika lifespans equal one Utpala lifespan; twenty Utpala lifespans equal one Kumuda lifespan; twenty Kumuda lifespans equal one Puṇḍarīka lifespan; twenty Puṇḍarīka lifespans equal one Padma lifespan; twenty Padma lifespans equal one antarakalpa.”