法苑珠林 73.23

73.23

如鼻柰耶律云。昔佛在世時。舍衛國中有一婆羅門。常供養迦留陀夷。其婆羅門唯有一子。長為取婦。時婆羅門臨終勅子。吾死之後汝看尊者迦留陀夷。如我今日。莫使有乏。父母亡後。子奉父母教還復供養迦留陀夷。如父在日。等無有異。後於異時婆羅門子出行不在。囑婦供養。是日便有五百群賊。中有一賊面首端正。婦遙見之。遣使喚來。便共私通。迦留陀夷數往其家。婦恐沙門漏泄此事。後共此賊方便殺之。波斯匿王聞於尊者迦留陀夷為賊所殺。王憶尊者瞋恚懊惱。即時便誅婆羅門家。并殺左右十八餘家。捕五百賊斬截手足擲著塹中。比丘見已而白佛言。迦留陀夷。本造何惡。為婆羅門婦所殺耶。佛告比丘。迦留陀夷。乃往過去作大天祀主。有五百人牽其一羊。截於四足將詣天祀。而共乞願。祀主得已即便殺之。由殺羊故墮於地獄受無量苦。昔天祀主今迦留陀夷是。雖得羅漢餘殃不盡。今得此報。爾時羊者今婦是也。昔五百人截羊足者。今日為王截其手足五百賊是。佛告比丘。若人殺害。所受果報終不朽敗。

As the Vinaya says: In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, in the city of Śrāvastī there was a brāhmaṇa who regularly made offerings to Kālodayin. That brāhmaṇa had only one son, for whom he took a wife when he grew up. When the brāhmaṇa was on the verge of death, he instructed his son: 'After I die, you must attend to the Venerable Kālodayin just as I do today; do not let him lack anything.' After the parents died, the son followed his parents' instructions and continued to make offerings to Kālodayin just as when his father was alive, with no difference whatsoever. Later, on another occasion, the brāhmaṇa's son had traveled away from home and was absent, leaving instructions for his wife to make the offerings. That day, there were five hundred bandits, among whom was a bandit with a handsome face. The wife saw him from afar, sent a messenger to summon him, and had an illicit affair with him. Because Kālodayin frequently went to their house, the wife feared that the śramaṇa would disclose the matter, and subsequently plotted with this bandit to kill him by a stratagem. When King Prasenajit heard that the Venerable Kālodayin had been killed by bandits, the king remembered the Venerable One and was enraged and deeply aggrieved. He immediately executed the brāhmaṇa's household and also killed over eighteen neighboring households. He captured the five hundred bandits, chopped off their hands and feet, and threw them into a ditch. When the bhikṣus saw this, they said to the Buddha: 'What evil did Kālodayin commit originally that he was killed by the brāhmaṇa's wife?' The Buddha told the bhikṣus: 'Far back in the past, Kālodayin was the master of a great deva temple. Five hundred men led a sheep, cut off its four feet, brought it to the deva temple, and together made a wish. When the master of the sacrifice received it, he immediately slaughtered it. Due to having killed the sheep, he fell into hell and underwent immeasurable suffering. The sacrificial master of the past is Kālodayin today. Although he has attained arhatship, his residual misfortune was not yet exhausted, so he has received this retribution today. The sheep at that time is this wife today. The five hundred men who cut off the sheep's feet in the past are the five hundred bandits whose hands and feet were cut off by the king today.' The Buddha told the bhikṣus: 'If a person commits murder, the retribution received never decays or fails.'