法苑珠林 9.121

9.121

如因果經云。太子至年十歲。與兄弟捔力。與萬眷屬將欲出城。于時有一大象。當城門住。諸人皆不敢前。提婆達多以手搏頭即便躄地。難陀以足指挑擲著路傍。太子以手執象。擲著城外。還以手接不令傷損。象又還蘇。時諸人民歎未曾有。深生奇特。四遠人民百千萬億皆集來看。園中有七重金鼓銀鼓鍮石銅鐵等鼓。各有七牧。提婆達多最先射之。徹三金鼓。次及難陀亦徹三鼓。太子嫌弓弱。取庫內祖王一良弓。無能張者。太子在坐以手拼弓。聲悉聞城內。百千國人及虛空天子。舉聲嗟嘆。以放一箭徹過諸鼓。然後入地泉水流出。又徹過大鐵圍山。

As the Guozhi Yinguo Jing states: When the prince reached ten years of age, he competed in strength with his brothers. Accompanied by ten thousand attendants, he was about to leave the city. At that time there was a great elephant standing at the city gate; no one dared advance. Devadatta struck its head with his hand, and it immediately collapsed to the ground. Nanda tossed it to the roadside with his toe. The prince seized the elephant with his hand and hurled it outside the city, then caught it again with his hand so that it was not harmed, and the elephant revived. At that time, the people praised it as unprecedented, deeming it deeply miraculous. From near and far, hundreds of thousands of koṭis of people all gathered to watch. In the park were seven layers of golden drums, silver drums, brass drums, bronze drums, iron drums, and so forth, seven of each. Devadatta shot first and pierced three golden drums. Next came Nanda, who also pierced three drums. The prince considered the bow weak, so he took a fine bow belonging to his ancestral king from the storehouse, which no one had been able to draw. Sitting in his place, the prince pulled the bow with his hand, and the sound was heard throughout the city. Hundreds of thousands of countrymen and the devaputras in the sky raised their voices in admiration. Releasing a single arrow, it pierced straight through all the drums, then entered the earth, from which spring water gushed forth; it also pierced through the Great Iron Ring Mountain.