諸經要集 11.42

11.42

又雜寶藏經云。昔佛在世時。波斯匿王有其一女。名曰善光。聰明端正。父母憐愍舉宮愛敬。父語女言。汝因我力舉宮愛敬。女答父言。我自有業。不因父王。王聞瞋忿而語之言。今當試汝有自業力。即遣左右。覓一最下貧窮乞人。以女付之。王語女言。汝自有業不假我者。從今可驗。女猶答言。我有業力。即共窮人相將出去。婦問夫言。有父母不。夫答婦言。我父母先此舍衛城中第一長者。父母居家都已死盡。無所依怙。是以窮乞。婦復問言。汝今頗知故宅處不。答言知處。但宅毀壞遂有空地。夫婦相將往至故舍。周歷安行。隨其行處伏藏自出。即以珍寶雇人造宅。未盈一月宮宅悉成。宮人伎女奴婢僕使。不可稱計。王卒憶念。我女善光。云何生活。有人答王。善光女郎。宮室錢財不減於王。王女即日遣其夫主。往請於王。王即受請。見其家內宮宅莊嚴。歎未曾有。王往問佛。此女先世作何福業。得生王家。身有光明。佛答王言。乃往過去九十一劫。毘婆尸佛入涅槃後。有槃頭王以佛舍利起七寶塔。王大夫人。見即便以天冠拂飾。著像頂上。以天冠中如意寶珠。著塔棖頭。因發願言。使我將來身有光明。紫磨金色尊榮豪貴。莫墮三惡八難之處。昔夫人者今善光是。後於過去迦葉佛時。復以餚饍供養佛僧。而夫遮斷。婦即勸請。我今已請使得充足。夫還聽婦。爾時婦者今善光是。爾時夫者今日夫是。由昔遮婦。恒常貧賤。以還聽故。要因其婦得大富貴。無其婦時後還貧賤。以是因緣。善惡之業逐身受報。未曾違失。

Also the Zabaozang jing says: In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, King Prasenajit had a daughter named Shanguang (Prabhāvatī). She was intelligent, upright, and beautiful. Her parents cherished her, and the entire palace loved and respected her. Her father said to the daughter, 'It is through my power that the entire palace loves and respects you.' The daughter answered her father, 'I have my own karma; it is not due to my father the king.' Hearing this, the king became angry and said to her, 'Now I shall test whether you have the power of your own karma.' He immediately sent attendants to find the lowliest, poorest begging man, and gave his daughter to him. The king said to the daughter, 'You have your own karma and do not rely on me; from now on this may be tested.' The daughter still replied, 'I have the power of karma.' She then set out together with the poor man. The wife asked the husband, 'Do you have parents?' The husband replied to the wife, 'My parents were formerly the foremost elders in this city of Śrāvastī. My parents and household have all died out; having nothing to rely upon, I therefore became a destitute beggar.' The wife further asked, 'Do you now know where the old residence was?' He replied, 'I know the place, but the residence was destroyed and has become vacant ground.' The husband and wife went together to the old residence. As she walked all around it with peaceful steps, hidden treasures naturally emerged wherever she walked. They then hired people with the precious treasures to build a residence; before a month was full, the palace and residences were all completed, with palace attendants, singing girls, male and female slaves, and servants beyond counting. The king suddenly remembered, 'How is my daughter Shanguang making a living?' Someone replied to the king, 'The young lady Shanguang's palaces and wealth are not inferior to the king's.' That very day the king's daughter sent her husband to go and invite the king. The king accepted the invitation, and seeing the adornment of their household palaces and mansions, marveled that such had never been seen before. The king went to ask the Buddha, 'What meritorious karma did this woman create in past lives that she was born into a royal house and has light emanating from her body?' The Buddha replied to the king: 'Ninety-one kalpas ago in the distant past, after the Buddha Vipaśyin entered nirvāṇa, there was a King Bandhumat who built a seven-jeweled stūpa with the Buddha's relics. The king's chief consort saw it and immediately took off her heavenly crown and whisks to place them atop the image's head, and placed the cintāmaṇi from the heavenly crown on top of the stūpa pole. Thereupon she made a vow, saying: "May I in the future have radiance on my body, be of purple-sheen golden colour, exalted, noble, and wealthy, and never fall into the three evil destinies or the eight difficult circumstances." The consort of that time is now Shanguang. Later, at the time of the past Buddha Kāśyapa, she again wished to offer fine delicacies to the Buddha and the Saṃgha, but her husband obstructed her. The wife then urged and requested: "I have already made the invitation; please allow it to be fully provided." The husband relented and consented to the wife. The wife at that time is now Shanguang; the husband at that time is the husband of today. Because he formerly obstructed his wife, he was perpetually poor and base; because he relented and consented, he necessarily attained great wealth and nobility through his wife, and without his wife he would afterwards return to poverty and baseness. By this cause and condition, wholesome and evil karma follow the body to receive retribution, never failing.'