[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 8.94 # 法苑珠林 8.94 法苑珠林 8.94 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.94) 如菩薩本行經云。時迦毘羅城不遠。復有一城。名曰天臂。彼天臂城。有一釋種豪貴長者。名為善覺。大富多財積諸珍寶。資產豐饒具足威德。稱意自然無所乏少。舍宅猶如毘沙門王宮殿無異。彼釋長者生於八女。一名為意。二名無比意。三名大意。四名無邊意。五名髮意。六名黑牛。七名瘦牛。八名摩訶波闍波提（隋言大慧亦云梵天）而此梵天於諸女中年最幼小。初生之日。為諸能相婆羅門師。觀占其體云。此女嫁若生兒者。必當得作轉輪聖王王四天下。七寶自然千子具足。乃至不用鞭杖治民。時善覺女年漸長成堪欲行嫁。白淨王。聞自國境內。有一釋氏甚大豪富。生於八女端正少雙。乃至相師占觀其女當生貴子。時淨飯王聞是語已。作如是言。我今當索是女作妃。令我甘蔗轉輪聖王苗裔不絕（此是律家作如是說。又言。大慧是菩薩母者。此依阿波陀那經文。又言。輸頭檀王是我之父。摩耶夫人是我之母。阿波陀那經說。檢諸經文。此義是實）時淨飯王。即遣使人往詣善覺大長者家。求索大慧為我作妃。波闍波提（隋云生活本）。 > As the Pusa benxing jing says: Not far from the city of Kapilavastu at that time, there was another city named Devadaha. In that city of Devadaha, there was an eminent and wealthy Śākya elder named Suprabuddha (Shanxue), extremely wealthy with abundant treasures, rich in property, and fully endowed with majesty and virtue; everything accorded with his wishes naturally without any lack, and his residence was no different from the palace of King Vaiśravaṇa. That Śākya elder fathered eight daughters: the first was named Yi (Manī); the second, Wubiyi (Anupamā); the third, Dayi (Mahāmanī); the fourth, Wubianyi (Anantamanī); the fifth, Fa'yi (Keśinī); the sixth, Heiniu (Kṛṣṇā); the seventh, Shouniu (Kṛśā); and the eighth, Mahāprajāpatī (in the language of Sui, 'Great Wisdom', also called 'Brahmā Heaven'). This 'Brahmā Heaven' was the youngest among the daughters. On the day she was born, the brāhmaṇa masters skilled in physiognomy observed and divined her bodily marks, saying: 'If this girl marries and bears a son, he will surely become a wheel-turning sage king (cakravartin) ruling over the four quarters of the world, with the seven treasures appearing spontaneously, possessing a thousand sons, and governing the people even without the use of whips or canes.' When Suprabuddha's daughters gradually grew to adulthood and were eligible for marriage, King Śuddhodana heard that within his own realm there was a Śākya of great wealth and nobility who had fathered eight daughters of upright beauty with few peers, and that the physiognomists had divined that one daughter was destined to bear a noble son. Having heard these words, King Śuddhodana said: 'I should now seek this girl to be my consort, so that the lineage of my Ikṣvāku wheel-turning sage kings will not be broken.' (This is what the Vinaya masters say. Furthermore, they say that Mahāprajāpatī is the mother of the bodhisattva; this relies on the text of the Apadāna-sūtra. Furthermore, the Apadāna-sūtra says: 'King Śuddhodana is my father; Lady Māyā is my mother.' Examining various sūtra texts, this meaning is factual.) King Śuddhodana then sent an envoy to the home of the great elder Suprabuddha to seek Mahāprajāpatī to be his consort. Prajāpatī (in the language of Sui, 'Source of Life'). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.93) - [Next: 8.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.95) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.8.94) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛本行集經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.abhiniskramanasutra-t190*zh-jnanagupta.5.45) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.94) · Pramāṇa