法苑珠林 87.16

87.16

又雜寶藏經云。昔有尊者阿羅漢字祇夜多。佛時去世。七百年後。出罽賓國。時罽賓國有一惡龍。名阿利那。數作災害。時有二千羅漢。各盡神力。驅遣此龍。令出國界。其中有百羅漢。以神通動地。又有五百人放大光明。復有五百人入禪定經行。諸人各盡其神力不能使動。時尊者祇夜多。最後往到龍池所。三彈指言。龍汝今出去。不得此住。龍即出去不敢停住。爾時二千羅漢語尊者言。我與尊者。俱得漏盡解脫法身。悉皆平等。而我等各各盡其神力不能令動。尊者云何以三彈指令龍遠入大海也。于時尊者答言。我凡夫已來受持禁戒。至突吉羅。等心護持。如四重無異。今諸人者。所以不能動此龍者。神力不同故不能動。

Furthermore, the Za baozang jing states: In the past, there was a venerable arhat named Giyeta (Jñātika/Citta). Seven hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, he appeared in the country of Kaśmīra. At that time, in the country of Kaśmīra, there was an evil dragon named Arina (Hariṇa) who frequently caused disasters. There were then two thousand arhats who each exhausted their spiritual powers to drive this dragon away and cause it to leave the country's borders. Among them, one hundred arhats shook the earth with supernormal powers; five hundred emitted great radiance; and another five hundred entered meditative concentration and practiced walking meditation. Each person exhausted his spiritual power, yet they could not make it budge. At that time, the Venerable Giyeta arrived last at the dragon's pool. He snapped his fingers three times and said: "Dragon, depart now! You may not remain here." The dragon immediately left, not daring to stay. Thereupon, the two thousand arhats said to the Venerable: "We and you, Venerable, have all attained the cessation of defilements and the dharma-body of liberation; we are all completely equal. Yet we each exhausted our spiritual powers and could not make it budge. How could you, Venerable, cause the dragon to enter far into the great sea with just three snaps of the fingers?" At that time, the Venerable replied: "Ever since I was an ordinary person, I have upheld the prohibitive precepts down to the duṣkṛta transgressions, guarding them with an impartial mind, no different from the four grave offences. The reason you people now could not budge this dragon is that our spiritual powers are not the same; therefore you could not move it."