諸經要集 19.57

19.57

又佛母泥洹經云。大愛道比丘尼。即是佛姨母。不忍見佛後當滅度。欲先滅度。與除饉女五百人（即是比丘尼也康僧會注法鏡經云凡夫貪染六塵猶餓夫貪飯不知厭足令聖人斷貪除六情飢饉故號出家尼為除饉也）以手摩佛足。遶佛三匝稽首而去。現神足德。於自座沒從東方來。在虛空中作十八變。八方上下亦復如是。放大光明以照諸冥。上曜諸天。五百除饉變化俱然。同前泥洹。佛勸理家。作五百輿床麻油香華。種種梓材。事各五百。真伎正音。當以供養。一切凡聖。覩之莫不哀泣。闍維畢捧舍利詣佛所。於是四方各二百五十應真神足飛來。稽首佛足。至舍利所。千比丘俱皆就坐。佛告阿難。取舍利盛之以鉢。著吾手中。阿難如命。佛告諸比丘。斯舍利本是穢身。凶愚惡暴。嫉妬陰謀。敗道壞德。今母能拔。與丈夫行。獲應真道。遷靈卒無。何其健哉。勅令興廟供養。

Furthermore, the Sūtra on the Buddha's Mother's Nirvāṇa states: The nun Mahāprajāpatī was the Buddha's maternal aunt. Unable to bear seeing the Buddha enter parinirvāṇa later, she wished to pass into extinction first, together with five hundred hunger-dispelling women (which means bhikṣuṇīs; Kang Senghui's commentary on the Fajing jing says that ordinary people are greedily attached to the six dusts just as starving people crave food and know no satiety, and since the sage causes them to sever greed and eliminate the hunger of the six senses, renunciant nuns are called 'hunger-dispellers'). Stroking the Buddha's feet with their hands, they circumambulated the Buddha three times, bowed their heads, and departed. Manifesting the power of miraculous abilities, vanishing from their own seats, they came from the eastern direction, performing eighteen transformations in the open sky; so too in the eight directions, above, and below. They emitted great light to illuminate the dark places and shine upward upon the heavens. The five hundred hunger-dispellers all performed transformations in the same manner, and passed into nirvāṇa together in front of him. The Buddha encouraged householders to make five hundred bier-beds, sesame oil, fragrant flowers, and various kinds of catalpa timber—five hundred of each—and with pure instrumental music and proper tones to make offerings. When all the ordinary and sage persons beheld it, none did not weep with grief. The cremation (jhāpita) being finished, they carried the relics and proceeded to the Buddha's place. Thereupon, from the four directions, two hundred and fifty arhats (yingzhen) with miraculous abilities flew from each direction, bowed their heads at the Buddha's feet, and arrived at the place of the relics. The thousand bhikṣus all took their seats. The Buddha told Ānanda: 'Take the relics, put them in a bowl, and place them in my hand.' Ānanda did as ordered. The Buddha told the bhikṣus: 'These relics were originally an impure body—ferocious, foolish, evil, and violent, with jealousy and hidden schemes, ruining the Path and destroying virtue. Now this mother was able to pull herself out, practice the conduct of a noble man, attain the arhat path, and transfer her spirit to the ultimate void. How valiant indeed!' He ordered that stūpas be erected to make offerings.