諸經要集 3.17

3.17

時彼一錢還來至王所。時大臣輩見是希有事。異口同音讚彼。嗚呼尊者少欲知足。乃至不須一錢。王及大臣供養菩提樹不絕。夫人名曰低舍羅絺多作念。王極愛念於我。念王今捨我珍寶至菩提樹間。我方便殺樹令死王不得往。可得與我相娛。夫人即遣人以熱乳澆之。樹枯葉落。王聞是語悶迷躄地。夫人見王憂愁不樂。當悅王心。白王曰若無彼樹我命亦無。如來於彼樹得道。彼樹既無何用活耶。復以冷乳灌之。彼樹更生。王聞歡喜詣於樹下。目不暫捨。以千瓮香湯溉灌菩提樹。倍復嚴好增長茂盛。後王潔淨身心。手執香鑪在於殿上。四方作禮心念口言。如來賢聖弟子在諸方者。憐愍我故受我供養。如是語時。有三十萬比丘悉來集。彼大眾中十萬是阿羅漢。二十萬是學人。及凡夫宮人太子群臣。共王所作功德無量。不可述盡。

At that moment, that single coin bounced back and returned to where the king was. The ministers, seeing this rare occurrence, praised him with one voice: 'O venerable one, of few desires and content, he does not even require a single coin!' The king and his ministers made uninterrupted offerings to the Bodhi tree. A consort named Tiṣyarakṣitā thought: 'The king loves and dotes on me deeply, yet he abandons my treasures to bestow them on the Bodhi tree. By some means I will kill the tree; when it dies, the king will no longer go there, and he will be able to amuse himself with me.' The consort forthwith sent someone to pour boiling milk over it, and the tree withered and its leaves fell. When the king heard this news, he collapsed to the ground in a swoon. The consort, seeing that the king was sorrowful and unhappy and wanting to gladden the king's heart, said to him: 'If that tree is gone, my own life is also gone. The Tathāgata attained the Way beneath that tree; if that tree is no more, what use is there in living?' She then watered it with cold milk, and the tree sprouted again. Hearing this, the king was delighted; he proceeded to the foot of the tree, unable to take his eyes off it even for a moment. He irrigated the Bodhi tree with a thousand jars of perfumed water, making it doubly magnificent, luxuriant, and flourishing. Later, the king purified his body and mind, held an incense burner in his hand in the palace hall, paid homage toward the four directions, and said aloud with his mind focused: 'May all the worthy and noble disciples of the Tathāgata residing in the various directions accept my offering out of compassion for me.' As he spoke these words, three hundred thousand bhikṣus all assembled. Among that great assembly, one hundred thousand were arhats, and two hundred thousand were trainees. Together with the ordinary people, palace attendants, the crown prince, and the multitude of ministers, the merit performed alongside the king was immeasurable and cannot be fully described.