法苑珠林 43.30

English (machine translation) 43.30

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43.30

At that time, that cruel warden seized that bhikṣu and placed him in the oil of an iron caldron. He piled up fuel and set fire, yet the fire would not burn at all; even when it burned, it would not become hot. Seeing that the fire would not ignite, the cruel warden beat his servants, and then the fire ignited of itself, blazing fiercely. After a long time, on opening the lid of the iron caldron, he saw that bhikṣu sitting on a lotus blossom within the iron caldron. Conceiving a sense of wonder, he immediately reported it to the king. The king then prepared his carriage and led an immeasurable multitude to come and see the bhikṣu. At that time, the moment to tame [the king] had arrived for that bhikṣu; he ascended into the open sky like the king of wild geese, displaying various miraculous transformations, as told in the verse:

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese