諸經要集 20.69

20.69

又新婆沙論云。昔怛叉尸羅國。有一女人。至月光王捨千頭處。禮無憂王所起靈廟。見有狗糞在佛座前。尋作是思。此處清淨如何狗糞穢污其中。以手捧除。香泥塗飾。善業力故。令此女人遍體生香。如栴檀樹。口中常出青蓮華香。若諸眾生由不護淨故。因內煩惱感諸外穢。故論頌言。

Furthermore, the New Mahāvibhāṣā states: In the past, in the kingdom of Takṣaśilā, a woman came to the place where King Candraprabha gave away his thousand heads, to worship the shrine built by King Aśoka. Seeing dog dung in front of the Buddha's seat, she immediately thought: 'This place is pure; how can dog dung defile it?' She lifted and removed it with her hands, and plastered and adorned [the ground] with fragrant mud. Due to the power of this wholesome karma, this woman's entire body gave off a fragrance like that of a sandalwood tree, and her mouth constantly emitted the fragrance of blue lotuses. If sentient beings, due to not protecting purity, incur external defilements through internal afflictions, therefore a treatise verse says: