諸經要集 3.12

3.12

又大阿育王經云。八國共分舍利。阿闍世王分數得八萬四千。又別得佛口髭還國。道中逢難頭和龍王。從其求舍利分。阿闍世王不與。便語言我是龍王力能壞汝國土。阿闍世怖畏。即以佛髭與之。龍還於須彌山下高八萬四千里。於下起水精塔。阿闍世王得還國。以紫金函盛舍利。作千歲燈火。於五恒河沙水中。起塔葬埋之。後阿育得其國土。王娶夫人。身長八尺髮亦周等。眾相具足。王令相師觀之。師言。當為王生金色之子。王即拜為第二夫人。後遂有身足滿十月。王有緣事宜出外行。太后妬嫉。便作方便共欲除之。募覓猪母即應產者。語第二夫人言。卿是年少甫爾始產。不可露面視天。以被覆面。即生金子光照宮中。盜持而去殺之。即以猪子著其邊。便罵言。汝云。當為王生金色之子。何故生猪。便取輪頭拍囚內後園中令服菜。王還聞之不悅。久久之後王出行園。見之憶念迎取歸宮。第二夫人漸得親近。具說情狀。王聞驚怪。即殺八萬四千夫人。阿育王後於城外。造立地獄治諸罪人。耶舍知王殺諸夫人應墮地獄。即遣消散比丘化王。令發信悟。問比丘言。殺八萬四千夫人。罪可得贖不。道人言。各為之起一塔。塔下著一舍利。當得脫罪耳。王即尋覓阿闍世王舍利。有國相父年百二十。將五百人取本舍利。王得大喜。即分與鬼神。各還所部。令一日一時同載八萬四千剎。諸鬼神言。多隔山部不得相知。王言。汝曹但還。治槃護剎安鈴。我當使阿修輪以手摸日。四天下亦同時辰。

Furthermore, the Great Sūtra of King Aśoka states: The eight kingdoms jointly divided the relics. King Ajātaśatru's allotted portion amounted to eighty-four thousand [measures], and he additionally obtained the Buddha's mustache and beard to bring back to his country. On the road, he encountered the dragon king Nanda-Upananda, who asked him for a share of the relics. When King Ajātaśatru would not grant it, [the dragon king] told him: 'I am a dragon king, able by force to destroy your country.' King Ajātaśatru was terrified and immediately gave him the Buddha's mustache and beard. The dragon returned to the foot of Mount Sumeru, eighty-four thousand leagues high, and built a crystal stupa underneath. King Ajātaśatru returned to his country, placed the relics in a purple-gold casket, fashioned lamps and torches that would burn for a thousand years, and erected a stupa to bury them amid the waters of five Gaṅgā sands. Later, Aśoka obtained his kingdom. The king took a consort who was eight feet tall, with hair that matched her stature, fully endowed with all the bodily marks. The king ordered a physiognomist to examine her, and the master said: 'She will bear for the king a golden-colored son.' The king forthwith appointed her second consort. Later, she became pregnant, and having completed ten months, the king had official business and went out on a tour. The queen mother was jealous, and so she devised an expedient means with others to eliminate her: she sought out a sow on the verge of giving birth, and said to the second consort: 'You are young and this is your first birth. You must not expose your face to look upon the sky.' She covered her face with a quilt. When the golden child was born, radiant light illuminated the palace. They stole him away and killed him, and immediately placed the piglet beside her. She then rebuked her, saying: 'You claimed that you would bear a golden-colored child for the king. Why have you given birth to a pig?' They then took a torture yoke, locked her up, and confined her to the rear garden to live on wild vegetables. When the king returned and heard of it, he was displeased. A long time afterward, the king went out to tour the garden; upon seeing her, he remembered her, and brought her back to the palace. The second consort gradually grew close to him again and recounted the full circumstances. Hearing this, the king was astounded and outraged, and forthwith put eighty-four thousand women of the inner quarters to death. Later, King Aśoka constructed a hell outside the city to punish convicts. Knowing that the king, having slain the consorts, was bound to fall into hell, Yaśa sent the bhikṣu Xiaosan to transform the king and cause him to awaken faith. The king asked the bhikṣu: 'For having killed eighty-four thousand women, can the guilt be expiated or not?' The man of the Way said: 'If you erect a stupa for each of them, and place a relic beneath each stupa, you will be freed from the guilt.' The king immediately sought out the relics of King Ajātaśatru. The father of the state chancellor, who was one hundred and twenty years old, led five hundred men to retrieve the original relics. The king was overjoyed, and forthwith distributed them to the ghosts and spirits, each returning to their respective domain, ordering that on a single day and at a single hour they should simultaneously erect eighty-four thousand stupa poles. The ghosts and spirits said: 'We are separated by many mountain ranges and cannot know each other's timing.' The king said: 'You need only return, prepare the dew-basins, secure the spires, and affix the bells; I will cause an asura to cover the sun with his hand, and all within the four quarters of the world will know the exact same hour.'