法苑珠林 65.52

65.52

Furthermore, the Damamūka-nidāna-sūtra says: Long ago in a distant age of the Buddha, there was a famine in the world at that time. On the causal stage, the Tathāgata, compassionately rescuing sentient beings, assumed the body of a great fish, five hundred yojanas in length. When people of the state needed its flesh, whether humans or domestic animals, they all came to take and eat it. Once taken, it grew back again. For twelve years, he bestowed his flesh and blood.