法苑珠林 8.90

8.90

Furthermore, according to the Loutan jing: Later, there were other kings whose governance and transformation were inferior to the former kings, and their lifespans consequently decreased. Life began at eighty thousand years, and gradually decreased from generation to generation down to ten thousand years, and even to one hundred years. From the beginning of the kalpa, when there was a king named Great Person Marks, according to the Four-Part Vinaya, a total of 84,253 kings appeared in the world. Among them, there were specifically ten great wheel-turning holy kings who ruled over the four continents. The other kings beyond these cannot be listed exhaustively. For now, the names and surnames of the Tathāgata's seven generations of ancestors will be recorded in full below.

Thus the Five-Part Vinaya says: In the past there was a king named King Utkā (the Four-Part Vinaya calls him Ikṣvāku). This king had four concubine-born sons: the first was named Illuminating Eyes (the Dīrgha Āgama calls him Shining Face); the second was named Clever Eyes (the Sūtra calls him Consumer of the Multitude); the third was named Elephant Tamer (the Sūtra calls him Road Pointer); the fourth was named Nīla (the Sūtra calls him Adornment). King Nīla had a son named Udara. King Udara had a son named Godara. King Godara had a son named Śikhura. King Śikhura had four sons: the first was named Śuddhodana; the second was named Śuklodana; the third was named Droṇodana; the fourth was named Amṛtodana.

If one follows the Dīrgha Āgama and the Four-Part Vinaya, they all say: King Siṃhahanu had four sons: the first was King Śuddhodana, who had two sons (the first was the Bodhisattva, the second was Nanda); the second was King Śuklodana, who had two sons (the first was Devadatta, the second was Ānanda); the third was King Droṇodana, who had two sons (the first was Mahānāman, the second was Aniruddha); the fourth was King Amṛtodana, who had two sons (the first was Śākya, the second was Bhaddiya).

According to the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra, King Siṃhahanu had a daughter named Amṛtā. Amṛtā had a son named Śīvala. According to the Saṃyukta Āgama, the World-Honoured One's maternal aunt's son was the bhikṣu Tiṣya. According to the Fenbie gongde lun, Ānanda had a younger sister who left home to become a nun (her name is not given), who resented Kāśyapa for rebuking Ānanda as a child.

Furthermore, the Da fangbian jing says: Since the beginning of the kalpa, King Śuddhodana's lineage succeeded one another directly as cakravartins; in the recent two generations, they did not become cakravartins, but became kings of Jambudvīpa.

Furthermore, the Upāsakaśīla-sūtra says: 'I generated the resolve in the presence of the first Śākyamuni Buddha; fulfilled the first asaṃkhyeya [kalpa] in the presence of Ratnacūḍa Buddha; fulfilled the second asaṃkhyeya in the presence of Dīpaṃkara Buddha; and fulfilled the third asaṃkhyeya in the presence of Kāśyapa Buddha.' (The Abhidharmakośa-śāstra states: 'Meeting in reverse order Vipaśyin, Dīpaṃkara, and Ratnaśikhin Buddhas,' which means the three asaṃkhyeyas were fulfilled at the time of Vipaśyin. If spoken of in terms of being exactly fulfilled, it lies with Vipaśyin; if spoken of in terms of already fulfilled, it lies with Kāśyapa. The sūtras and treatises differ, but each is grounded in principle. Truly, it is because Śākyamuni's nobility is peerless throughout ancient and modern times that, having planted fortunate causes in past lives, he now receives this supreme retribution.)