[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) › 14.90 # 諸經要集 14.90 諸經要集 14.90 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.90) 又百緣經云。昔佛在世時。波斯匿王婦末利夫人。產生一女字曰金剛。面貌極醜。身體麁澁猶如蛇皮。頭髮麁強猶如馬尾。王見不喜。勅閉深宮不令出外。年漸長大任當嫁娶。便遣一臣。推覓一人本是豪族今貧乏者。卿可將來。臣受勅已。覓得付王。王將屏處。密私語言。聞卿豪族今者貧窮。我有一女面貌極醜。卿幸納受當相供給。時此貧人。跪白王曰。正使大王以狗見賜。亦不敢違。豈況王女末利所生。王即妻之。為造宅舍門戶七重。王囑女夫。自捉戶鉤出入牢閉。勿使人見。王出財物供給女婿。無所乏少。拜為大臣。後與豪貴共為邑會。聚會之契令婦共赴。自餘諸人。各將婦來。唯此大臣獨不將赴。眾人疑怪。彼人婦者。或能端正。或可極醜。不能顯現。是以不來。復於後會密共勸酒令使醉臥。解取門鉤。遣其五人造家往看。至家開門。婦疑非夫。內自剋責懊惱而言。我宿何罪。為夫幽閉不覩日月。即便至心遙禮世尊。願佛慈悲來到我前。暫救苦厄。佛知其意。即於女前地中踊出。紺髮相現。其女舉頭。見佛髮相。敬心歡喜。女髮自然如紺青色。佛漸現面。女心倍喜。面復端正。更令麁皮自然化滅。佛悉現身令女盡見。更增歡喜。身體端正猶如天女。佛便為說種種法要。得須陀洹果。時佛去後。五人入見端正少雙。觀看已竟還閉門戶。繫鉤本處。其人還家見婦端正。欣然問言。汝是何人。婦答夫言。我是汝婦。夫即語言。汝前極醜。何緣端正乃爾。婦便白夫。具說上事。婦復向夫。我欲見王。汝當為我通白消息。夫往白王。女郎今者欲來相見。王答女夫。莫道此事。急當牢閉慎勿令出。女夫白王。女郎今者蒙佛威神。便得端正天女無異。王聞是已。即遣往迎。見女端正歡喜無量。將詣佛所而白佛言。不審此女宿種何福。乃生豪貴而復醜陋。佛告王言。乃往過去。波羅柰國有一長者。恒常供養一辟支佛。身體醜陋。時長者家有一小女。見辟支佛惡心罵言。面貌醜陋身皮麁惡。何期可憎。時辟支佛。欲入涅槃便現神力。作十八變。其女見已。即時自責求哀懺悔。緣於過去罵辟支故。生常醜陋。由還懺悔今得端正。以供養故。所生之處。豪尊富貴快樂無極。 > Furthermore, the Baiyuan jing says: Long ago, when the Buddha was in the world, King Prasenajit's wife, Queen Mallikā, gave birth to a daughter named Vajrā. Her face was extremely ugly, her body rough and coarse like snakeskin, and her hair bristly and stiff like a horse's tail. The king was displeased when he saw her, and ordered her confined to the deep palace, not allowing her to go outside. When she gradually grew older and reached the age for marriage, he dispatched a minister: 'Seek out a person who was originally of an eminent clan but is now poor and destitute. You may bring him.' Having received the order, the minister found one and presented him to the king. The king took him to a secluded place and spoke to him in secret: 'I hear you are of an eminent clan and are now impoverished. I have a daughter whose face is extremely ugly. If you are fortunate enough to take her, I will supply your needs.' At that time, this poor man knelt and addressed the king: 'Even if the Great King were to bestow a dog, I would not dare disobey, how much less the King's daughter born of Mallikā!' The king then gave her to him in marriage, and built a residence with seven layers of gates for them. The king instructed the daughter's husband: 'Hold the door hooks yourself; lock them securely when entering and leaving, and do not let anyone see her.' The king provided wealth to support his son-in-law so that he lacked nothing, and appointed him as a great minister. Later, \[the son-in-law\] joined in an association gathering with other nobles. The agreement of the assembly was that their wives should accompany them. All the other men each brought their wives; only this great minister did not bring his to the gathering. The multitude grew suspicious: 'Could that man's wife perhaps be graceful and upright, or could she be extremely ugly and unable to be seen? That is why she does not come.' Later at another gathering, they secretly urged wine upon him, causing him to fall asleep drunk. They unfastened and took his door keys, and sent five men to go to his home to look. When they reached the house and opened the doors, the wife suspected it was not her husband. Inwardly reproaching herself, she said in deep distress: 'What sin did I commit in a past life that I am confined by my husband and cannot see the sun or moon?' Forthwith, with a single mind, she made obeisance to the Bhagavat from afar: 'May the Buddha in his compassion come before me and briefly deliver me from this misery and distress.' The Buddha, knowing her thought, immediately sprang up from the ground before the woman, displaying the mark of dark blue hair. The woman raised her head, and seeing the Buddha's mark of hair, her heart was filled with reverence and joy; her hair naturally became like dark lapis blue. The Buddha gradually revealed his face; the woman's heart was doubly joyful, and her face became graceful and upright, while her rough skin was caused naturally to disappear. The Buddha revealed his entire body, allowing the woman to see it completely, increasing her joy all the more; her body became graceful and upright like a heavenly maiden. The Buddha then expounded various essentials of the Dharma for her, and she attained the fruit of a srotāpanna. After the Buddha had departed, the five men entered and saw that she was graceful, upright, and rarely matched. Having finished looking, they locked the gates again and fastened the hooks back in their original place. When the man returned home and saw his wife was graceful and upright, he asked joyfully, 'Who are you?' The wife answered her husband, 'I am your wife.' The husband said to her, 'You were previously extremely ugly; by what cause have you become so graceful and upright?' The wife then told her husband, explaining the above matters in full. The wife further said to her husband, 'I wish to see the king; you should convey this news for me.' The husband went and reported to the king, 'My lady now wishes to come see you.' The king answered the son-in-law, 'Do not speak of this matter! Lock her up securely at once, and take care not to let her out.' The son-in-law addressed the king, 'My lady has now received the Buddha's spiritual power, and has become graceful and upright, no different from a heavenly maiden.' When the king heard this, he immediately dispatched \[attendants\] to welcome her. Seeing his daughter graceful and upright, his joy was boundless. He led her to the Buddha's place and said to the Buddha, 'I wonder what merit this daughter planted in past lives, that she was born into an eminent nobility and yet was so ugly?' The Buddha told the king, 'Long ago in the past, in the country of Vārāṇasī, there was a householder who constantly made offerings to a pratyekabuddha whose body was ugly. At that time, the householder's family had a young daughter, who saw the pratyekabuddha and reviled him with an evil heart: "His face is ugly and his skin rough and wretched; how completely detestable!" At that time, the pratyekabuddha wished to enter nirvāṇa, and so displayed his spiritual power, performing the eighteen transformations. Having seen this, the daughter immediately reproached herself, seeking mercy and repenting. Because of reviling the pratyekabuddha in the past, she was always born ugly. Because she repented, she has now obtained a graceful and upright form. Because of her offerings, wherever she is born, she enjoys eminent rank, wealth, and boundless happiness.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.89) - [Next: 14.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.91) - [Up: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.14.90) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.76.13) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.90) · Pramāṇa