[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) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 10.21 # 諸經要集 10.21 諸經要集 10.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.21) 又四分律。及彌沙塞律云。昔佛在世時。跋提城內有大居士。字曰琝荼。饒財珍富有大威力。隨意所欲周給人物。倉中有孔大如車軸。穀米自出。婦以八升米作飯。飼四部兵及四方來者。食故不盡。其兒以千兩金。與四部兵及四方乞者。隨意施猶不盡。兒婦以一裹香。塗四部兵并四方來乞者。隨意令足。香故不盡。奴以一犁田耕七壠出米滋多。其奴以八升穀。與四部兵人馬。食之不盡。家內良賤共諍。各是我福力。琝荼詣佛請問。是誰力耶。佛言。汝等共有。昔王舍城有一織師。織師有婦。又有一兒。兒又有婦。有一奴一婢。一時共食。有辟支佛來就舍乞食。各欲當分捨與。辟支佛言。各減少許。於汝不少在我得足。即共從之。辟支食已。於虛空中現諸神變方去。織師眷屬捨命。生四天王天。至于他化。展轉七反。餘福此生果報齊等。又淨業障經云。若菩薩觀慳及施不作二相。持戒毀戒不作二相。瞋恚忍辱。懈怠精進。亂心禪定。愚癡智慧不作二相。是則名為淨諸業障。 > Also, the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya and the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya state: In ancient times, when the Buddha was in the world, in the city of Bhaddiya there was a great householder named Meṇḍaka. He had abundant wealth and treasures, and possessed great power. According to his wishes, he provided for people and things. In his granary there was an opening as large as an axle-hub, from which grain came out on its own. His wife used eight sheng of rice to make food, feeding four divisions of the army and visitors arriving from the four directions, yet the food was still not exhausted. His son took a thousand ounces of gold and gave it to the four divisions of the army and beggars from the four directions at will, yet it was still not exhausted. His daughter-in-law took a single wrap of incense and anointed the four divisions of the army and beggars arriving from the four directions at will to their satisfaction, yet the incense was still not exhausted. A male servant plowed seven furrows with a single plow, and the rice produced was exceedingly abundant; this servant gave eight sheng of grain to the men and horses of the four divisions of the army, and it could not be eaten up. The free and bondservants in the household argued with one another, each saying: 'This is the power of my merit!' Meṇḍaka went to the Buddha and asked: 'Whose power is this?' The Buddha said: 'It belongs to all of you together. Long ago in Rājagṛha there was a weaver. The weaver had a wife and also a son; the son also had a wife, and there was one male servant and one female servant. Once they were eating together, a pratyekabuddha came to the house to beg for food. Each wished to give up their own portion to him. The pratyekabuddha said: "Each of you reduce a little bit; it will not be little to you, and it will be sufficient for me." They complied together. After eating, the pratyekabuddha manifested spiritual transformations in the open air and only then departed. When the weaver's family died, they were reborn in the Heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings up to the Heaven of Controlling Others' Emanations, revolving through seven cycles. The remaining merit in this life brings retributions that are equal.' Also, the Śuddhādhyāśaya-sūtra says: 'If a bodhisattva views stinginess and giving as not forming two signs, keeping precepts and breaking precepts as not forming two signs, anger and kṣānti, laziness and vigor, distracted mind and dhyāna, folly and prajñā as not forming two signs, this is called purifying all karmic hindrances.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.20) - [Next: 10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.22) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.10.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.21) · Pramāṇa