[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) › 20.66 # 諸經要集 20.66 諸經要集 20.66 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [20.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.66) 又賢愚經云。昔佛在世時。舍衛城中有一貧人名曰尼提。極貧下賤。常客除糞。佛知應度。即將阿難往到其所。正值尼提。擔糞出城而欲棄之。瓶破污身。遙見世尊深生慚愧。不忍見佛。佛到其所廣為說法。即生信心欲得出家。佛使阿難將至河中。與水洗訖將詣祇洹。佛為說法得須陀洹。尋即出家得阿羅漢果。國人及王。聞其出家皆生怨恨。云何佛聽此人出家。波斯匿王。即往佛所欲破此事。正值尼提在祇洹門。大石上坐縫補故衣。七百諸天香華供養。王見歡喜。請通白佛。尼提比丘。身沒石中出入自在。通白已竟。王到佛所先問此事。向者比丘姓字何等。佛告王曰。是王國中下賤之人。除糞尼提。王聞佛語謗心即除。到尼提所執足作禮。懺悔辭謝。王白佛言。尼提比丘。宿作何業受此賤身。佛告王曰。昔迦葉佛入涅槃後。有一比丘。出家自在秉捉僧事。身暫有患懶起出入。便利器中。使一弟子擔往棄之。然其弟子是須陀洹。以是因緣。流浪生死恒為下賤。五百世中為人除糞。由昔出家持戒功德。今得值佛出家得道（以是義故。不得房內便利具招前罪。數見俗人。懈怠不能自運。置穢器在房便利。令他日別將棄。未來定墮地獄。縱得出獄猶作猪狗𧏙蜋廁中穢糞蟲也）。 > Also, the Damamūka-nidāna-sūtra states: Formerly, when the Buddha was in the world, there was a poor man in Śrāvastī named Nidhi. Extremely poor and lowly, he was always hired to remove excrement. Knowing that he was ready for deliverance, the Buddha took Ānanda and went to his location. It coincided with Nidhi carrying excrement out of the city intending to discard it; the jar broke and soiled his body. Seeing the Bhagavat from afar, he felt deep shame and could not bear to see the Buddha. The Buddha arrived at his location and expounded the Dharma extensively for him; he immediately gave rise to faith and wished to leave household life. The Buddha sent Ānanda to take him to the river, and after giving him water to wash, brought him to the Jetavana. The Buddha expounded the Dharma for him, and he attained the fruit of srotāpanna; immediately upon leaving household life, he attained the fruit of arhat. The people and the king of the country, hearing of his renunciation, all harbored resentment: ‘How could the Buddha permit this person to leave household life?’ King Prasenajit went to the Buddha's place wishing to overturn this matter. It happened that Nidhi was at the gate of the Jetavana, sitting upon a large stone mending old robes, with seven hundred devas making offerings of incense and flowers. Seeing this, the king rejoiced and asked to be announced to the Buddha. The bhikṣu Nidhi submerged his body into the stone, entering and exiting freely. After announcing him, the king arrived at the Buddha's place and first asked about this matter: ‘What is the family name and personal name of that bhikṣu just now?’ The Buddha told the king: ‘He is the lowly man in Your Majesty's kingdom, the excrement-remover Nidhi.’ Hearing the Buddha's words, the king's slanderous thoughts were immediately eliminated; he went to Nidhi's location, clasped his feet in homage, and repented with apologies. The king addressed the Buddha, saying: ‘What karma did the bhikṣu Nidhi perform in the past to receive this lowly body?’ The Buddha told the king: ‘Formerly, after Kāśyapa Buddha entered nirvāṇa, there was a bhikṣu who had left household life and freely managed the affairs of the Saṅgha. His body being temporarily indisposed, he was too lazy to get up to go out, and relieved himself in a vessel, sending a disciple to carry it away and discard it. However, that disciple was a srotāpanna. By this cause and condition, he drifted in saṃsāra and was constantly lowly, removing excrement for others for five hundred lifetimes. Due to his past merit of renouncing the household and keeping the precepts, he has now met the Buddha, left household life, and attained the Way.’ (For this reason, one must not relieve oneself inside a room, which brings about the aforementioned retribution. One frequently sees worldly people who, being negligent and unable to move themselves, place foul vessels in their rooms to relieve themselves, causing others to carry them away and discard them day after day. In the future they will certainly fall into hell; even if they emerge from hell, they will still become pigs, dogs, dung beetles, or foul excrement-eating worms in privies.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 20.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.65) - [Next: 20.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.67) - [Up: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.20.66) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.66) · Pramāṇa