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法苑珠林 75.37

法苑珠林 75.37

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75.37

又十誦律云。佛在舍衛國。有一婆羅門生女。面貌端正顏色清淨。名曰妙光。相師占曰。是女後當與五百男共通。諸人聞已。女年十二無有求者。時婆羅門有隣比估客。常入海採寶。是估客於樓上遙見是女。即生欲心。問餘人言。是誰女耶。答是某甲婆羅門女。有取者耶。答言。無有求者。問何故無人求耶。答曰。此女有一過罪。相師占曰。是女後當與五百男子共通。所以無求者。時估客念言。除沙門釋子。無入我舍者。即往求取。女到未久。估客結伴欲入海中。喚守門者語言。我欲入海。莫聽男子強入我舍。除沙門釋子。此是無過人。答言爾。去後沙門於舍乞食。是女見已語言。共我行欲。諸比丘不知白佛。佛言。此舍必有非梵行。汝不應往。此女後得病。於夜命終。其家人以莊嚴具。合棄屍處。時有五百群賊。於此處行。見是死女。即生欲心。便就行欲。是女先語沙門婆羅門。共我行欲。以此因緣故墮惡道。彼國北方生作婬龍。名毘摩達多。

Furthermore, the Daśādhyāya-vinaya states: When the Buddha was in Śrāvastī, a brāhmaṇa had a daughter whose facial features were upright and complexion pure, named Prabhāvatī. A physiognomist divined: 'This girl will later have relations with five hundred men.' After everyone heard this, though the girl reached twelve years of age, no one sought her in marriage. At that time, next to the brāhmaṇa lived a merchant who frequently went to sea to gather jewels. This merchant, from high on an upper floor, saw this girl from afar and immediately gave rise to lustful desire. He asked other people: 'Whose daughter is this?' They replied: 'She is the daughter of a certain brāhmaṇa.' 'Has anyone taken her?' They replied: 'No one has sought her.' He asked: 'For what reason has no one sought her?' They replied: 'This girl has a fault: a physiognomist divined that this girl will later have relations with five hundred men. That is why no one seeks her.' At that time, the merchant thought: 'Except for the śramaṇas of the Śākyan clan, no one enters my house.' He immediately went to seek her in marriage. Not long after the girl arrived, the merchant joined companions intending to go to sea. He called the gatekeeper and said to him: 'I intend to go to sea. Do not allow any man to force his way into my house, with the exception of the śramaṇas of the Śākyan clan, as they are faultless people.' He replied: 'Yes.' After he departed, a śramaṇa begged for food at the house. Seeing him, the girl said: 'Engage in desire with me.' The bhikṣus, not knowing [what to do], reported it to the Buddha. The Buddha said: 'In this house there will certainly be unchaste conduct; you must not go there.' Later, this girl fell ill and died during the night. Her family members took her with her ornaments and discarded her in the charnel ground. At that time, a band of five hundred thieves traveled through this place; seeing the dead woman, they immediately gave rise to lustful desire and engaged in desire with her. Because this woman had previously said to the śramaṇa brāhmaṇa, 'Engage in desire with me,' due to this cause and condition she fell into the evil destinies: in the north of that country, she was born as a lustful dragon named Bhīmadatta.

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