[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) › 9.54 # 法苑珠林 9.54 法苑珠林 9.54 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9.54) 依佛本行經云。是時摩耶詣童子所至已。持手抱童子頭。令向仙人擬如禮拜仙人之足。是時童子威德力故。其身自轉足向仙人。時淨飯王更復共扶。迴童子頭令拜仙人。童子力故足還自轉向彼仙人。時淨飯王復迴童子頭向仙人。還復轉足。如是至三。其阿私陀遙見童子。是時童子放常光明照觸大地。童子威德端正可喜。色純黃金頭如寶蓋。鼻直而圓修臂下垂肢節正等。無缺無減具足莊嚴。時阿私陀即從座起。白於王言。大王莫將童子聖頭迴向於我。何以故。彼頭不合頂禮我足。我頭應當頂禮彼足。復唱是言。希有希有。大人出世。最大希有。大人出世。我本從天所聞者。即此童子真實定是。如彼不異。時阿私陀整理衣服。偏袒右臂右膝著地。申其兩手抱持童子。安其頂上還復本座。本座坐已。還下童子置於膝上。 > According to the \*Fo benxing jing\*: At that time Māyā went to the place of the boy. Having arrived, she took him with her hands, cradling the boy's head, turning it toward the ṛṣi intending that he bow down to the ṛṣi's feet. At that time, through the power of the boy's majestic virtue, his body turned of itself so that his feet faced the ṛṣi. Then King Śuddhodana joined in to assist, turning the boy's head to make him bow to the ṛṣi. Through the boy's power, his feet turned back of themselves toward that ṛṣi. King Śuddhodana again turned the boy's head toward the ṛṣi, and again his feet turned back. This happened three times. Asita beheld the boy from afar. At that time the boy radiated a constant light that illuminated and touched the great earth. The boy's majestic virtue was upright and pleasing; his color was like pure jambūnada gold, his head was like a jeweled canopy, his nose was straight and round, his long arms hung down, and his limbs and joints were regular and proportioned. He was complete with adornments, lacking nothing and deficient in nothing. Then Asita immediately rose from his seat and said to the King: 'Great King, do not turn the boy's noble head toward me! Why? That head should not prostrate to my feet; my head ought to prostrate to his feet.' He further proclaimed these words: 'Rare! Rare! A great personage has appeared in the world! Most exceedingly rare! A great personage has appeared in the world! What I originally heard from the heavens was precisely this boy; it is truly and definitely so, not different from that!' Then Asita adjusted his garments, bared his right shoulder, placed his right knee upon the ground, extended both hands, held the boy, placed him upon the crown of his head, and returned to his original seat. Having sat upon his original seat, he lowered the boy and placed him on his lap. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9.53) - [Next: 9.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9.55) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.9.54) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.9.54) · Pramāṇa