諸經要集 5.70

5.70

又付法藏經云。昔過去九十一劫。毘婆尸佛入涅槃後。有一比丘。甚患頭痛。薄拘羅。爾時作一貧人。見病比丘。即便持一呵梨勒果。施病比丘。比丘服訖病即除愈。緣施果故。九十一劫天上人中。受福快樂未曾有病。最後生一婆羅門家。其母早亡。父便聘妻。拘羅年幼。見母作餅從母索之。後母嫉妬。即捉拘羅擲置𨫼上。𨫼雖燋熱不能燒害。父從外來。見薄拘羅在熱𨫼上。即便抱下。母於後時釜中煮肉時。薄拘羅從母索肉。母益瞋恚尋擲釜中。亦不燒爛。父覓不見。即便喚之。拘羅聞喚。釜中而應。父即抱出平復如故。母後向河拘羅逐去。後母瞋忿而作是言。此何鬼魅妖祥之物。雖復燒煮不能令死。即便捉之擲置河中。值一大魚。即便吞食。以福緣故猶復不死。有捕魚師捕得此魚。詣市賣之。索價既多人無買者。至暮欲臭。薄拘羅父見即隨買。持來歸家。以刀破腹。兒在魚腹。高聲唱言。願父安詳勿令傷兒。父開魚腹抱兒而出。年漸長大求出家。得阿羅漢果。從生至老。年百六十未曾有病。乃至無有身熱頭痛。由施藥故得是長壽。五處不死。𨫼鑠不燋。釜煮不爛。水溺不死。魚吞不消。刀割不傷。以是因緣。智者應當作如是事。又雜譬喻經云。昔者舍衛國。有一貧家。庭中有蒲桃樹。上有數穗。念施道人。時國王先前請食一月。是貧家力勢不如王。正懸一月。乃得一道人。便持施之。語道人言。念欲施來已經一月。今乃得願。道人語優婆夷。已一月中施。優婆夷言。我但施一穗蒲桃。那得一月施耶。道人言。但一月中。念欲捨施。則為一月。

Furthermore, the Fu fazang jing says: In the past, ninety-one kalpas ago, after Vipaśyin Buddha entered nirvāṇa, there was a monk who suffered greatly from a headache. Bakkula was at that time a poor man. Seeing the sick monk, he immediately took a harītakī fruit and gave it to the sick monk. When the monk took it, his illness was cured. By virtue of giving the fruit, for ninety-one kalpas among gods and humans, he enjoyed the bliss of merit and was never sick. In his final life, he was born into a brāhmaṇa family. His mother died early, and his father then married a new wife. Bakkula was young, and seeing his stepmother making cakes, he asked her for some. The stepmother was jealous, and immediately grabbed Bakkula and threw him onto a frying pan. Although the pan was scorching hot, it could not burn or harm him. The father came from outside, and seeing Bakkula on the hot pan, he immediately took him down in his arms. Later, when the mother was boiling meat in a cauldron, Bakkula asked her for meat. The mother became even angrier and immediately threw him into the cauldron, yet he was not scalded or cooked. The father looked for him and could not find him, so he called out to him. Bakkula heard the call and responded from inside the cauldron. The father immediately carried him out, safe and sound as before. Later, the mother went to the river and Bakkula followed along. The stepmother was enraged and said: 'What kind of demonic and monstrous creature is this? Even burning and boiling cannot cause him to die!' She immediately grabbed him and threw him into the river. He encountered a large fish, which swallowed and ate him. Due to his meritorious conditions, he still did not die. A fisherman caught this fish and went to the marketplace to sell it. Because he demanded a high price, no one bought it. By evening it was about to spoil. Bakkula's father saw it and bought it on the spot. He brought it home and cut open the belly with a knife. The boy was inside the fish's belly and called out in a loud voice: 'I beg father to proceed gently, so as not to injure your child!' The father opened the fish's belly and carried the child out. When he gradually grew up, he sought to go forth from household life and attained the fruit of an arhat. From birth to old age, at the age of one hundred and sixty, he was never sick, and never even had body heat or a headache. Because of giving medicine, he attained this long life and did not die in five places: the pan scorched him without burning him; the cauldron boiled him without cooking him; he did not drown in water; being swallowed by a fish did not digest him; and cutting with a knife did not harm him. By these causes and conditions, the wise should perform such deeds. Furthermore, the Za piyu jing says: In the past, in Śrāvastī, there was a poor family. In their courtyard was a grape vine with several clusters. They thought of giving to a man of the Way. At that time, the king had previously invited the monks for meals for one month. The poor family's influence was not equal to the king's. Exactly when a full month had passed, they finally obtained a man of the Way and presented it to him. They said to the man of the Way: 'I have been thinking of giving for a whole month, and only today has my wish been fulfilled.' The man of the Way said to the upāsikā: 'You have already been giving for a whole month.' The upāsikā said: 'I only gave a single cluster of grapes; how could it be giving for a month?' The man of the Way said: 'Because throughout that one month you held the thought of wanting to renounce and give, that constitutes a whole month.'