[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) › 80.24 # 法苑珠林 80.24 法苑珠林 80.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [80.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80.24) 又四分律及彌沙塞律云。昔佛在世時。跋提城內有大居士。字曰琝荼。饒財珍富有大威力。隨意所欲周給人物。倉中有孔。大如車軸。穀米自出。婦以八升米作飯。飼四部兵及四方來者。食故不盡。其兒以千兩金與四部兵及四方乞者。隨意不盡。兒婦以一裹香塗四部兵并四方來乞者。隨意令足。香故不盡。奴以一犁耕田七壟。出米滋多。其婢以八升穀與四部兵。人馬食之不盡。家內良賤共爭各是我福力。琝荼詣佛請問誰力。佛言。汝等共有。昔王舍城有一織師。織師有婦。又有一兒。兒又有婦。有一奴一婢。一時共食。有辟支佛來就舍乞食。各欲當分捨與。辟支佛言。各減少許。於汝不少。在我得足。即共從之。辟支食已。於虛空中現諸神變方去。織師眷屬捨命生四天王天。至于他化展轉七返。餘福此生。果報齊等。 > Furthermore, the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya and the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya state: 'Formerly, when the Buddha was in the world, in the city of Bhadrika there was a great householder named Meṇḍhaka. He had abundant wealth and treasures and great authority; according to his wishes, he provided for all beings and goods. There was a hole in his storehouse, as large as an axle-hub, from which grain and rice emerged of their own accord. His wife prepared cooked rice from eight sheng of rice and fed the fourfold army and visitors coming from the four directions, and the food remained unexhausted. His son gave a thousand liang of gold to the fourfold army and beggars coming from the four directions, and at his will it was never exhausted. His son's wife took a single packet of incense to anoint the fourfold army and the petitioners coming from the four directions, satisfying them at will, and the incense remained unexhausted. His male slave plowed seven furrows with a single plow, yielding grain in great abundance. His female slave gave eight sheng of grain to the fourfold army, and humans and horses eating it could not exhaust it. Freeborn and bondservants within the household disputed among themselves, each claiming, "This is the power of my merit!" Meṇḍhaka went to the Buddha to ask whose power it was. The Buddha said: "It belongs in common to all of you. Long ago in Rājagṛha there was a weaver. The weaver had a wife, and also had a son; the son also had a wife; and there was one male slave and one female slave. At one time, while eating together, a pratyekabuddha came to the house to beg for food. Each wanted to relinquish his or her own portion to give to him. The pratyekabuddha said: 'Let each reduce a small amount: it will not be small for you, and for me it will be sufficient.' They thereupon together followed his instruction. Having eaten, the pratyekabuddha displayed various divine transformations in the sky and only then departed. When the weaver's family died, they were born in the Heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings, and up to the Heaven of Paranirmitavaśavartin, cycling back and forth seven times. The remaining merit culminates in this lifetime, with their karmic retributions being equal."' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 80.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80.23) - [Next: 80.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80.25) - [Up: 80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.80.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.80.24) · Pramāṇa