諸經要集 6.68

6.68

爾時老母。聞偈歡喜。心念前日有臭米汁。是以施之。則不可飲。遙啟迦葉。哀我受不。迦葉答言。大善。母即在窟匍匐取之。形體裸露不得持出。側身僂體。籬上受與。迦葉受之。尊口呪願使蒙福安。迦葉心念。若吾齎去。著餘處飲。母則不信。謂吾棄之。即於母前飲訖盪鉢。還著囊中。於是老母特復真信。迦葉自念。當現神足。令此母人必獲大安。即在空中廣現神變。爾時母人見此踊躍。一心長跪遙視迦葉。迦葉告曰。母今意中。所願何等。即啟迦葉。願以微福。得生天上。於是迦葉忽然不現。老母數日壽終。即生忉利天上。威德巍巍震動天地。光明挺特。譬如七日一時俱出。照曜天宮。帝釋驚悸。何人福德感動勝吾。即以天眼。觀此天女。福德使然。即知天女本生來處。爾時天女即自念言。此之福報。緣其前世供養迦葉所致。假令當以天上珍寶種種百千施上迦葉。猶尚未報須臾之恩。即將侍女。持天香花忽然來下。於虛空中散迦葉上。然後來下。五體投地禮畢却住。叉手歎曰。

At that time, the old mother rejoiced upon hearing the verse. She thought to herself that the previous day she had received foul rice-water; to give it would mean it could not be drunk. From afar she addressed Kāśyapa, 'Out of pity for me, will you accept it?' Kāśyapa replied, 'Very good.' The mother then crawled in the cave to fetch it. Her body was naked, so she could not come out carrying it; leaning to the side and stooping, she presented it over the fence. Kāśyapa accepted it, and with his venerable mouth made an auspicious blessing that she might receive merit and peace. Kāśyapa thought: 'If I take it away to drink elsewhere, the mother will not believe it and will think I discarded it.' Thereupon, in front of the mother, he drank it up, rinsed the bowl, and placed it back into his bag. At this, the old mother gained especially genuine faith. Kāśyapa thought to himself: 'I should display psychic powers so that this mother will surely attain great peace.' Thereupon he broadly manifested miraculous transformations in the air. At that time, the mother leaped with joy upon seeing this. Single-mindedly kneeling upright, she looked up from afar at Kāśyapa. Kāśyapa told her, 'Mother, what do you now wish for in your heart?' She then addressed Kāśyapa, 'I wish that by this tiny merit, I may be born in heaven.' Thereupon Kāśyapa suddenly disappeared. A few days later, the old mother reached the end of her lifespan and was immediately born in the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven. Her majestic virtue was towering, shaking heaven and earth; her radiance was extraordinary, like seven suns rising all at once, illuminating the heavenly palace. Śakra was startled and terrified: 'Whose merit is so moving as to surpass mine?' He then used the divine eye to observe this devī, [seeing that] her merit had brought this about, and immediately knew the place of her previous rebirth. At that time, the devī thought to herself: 'This retribution of merit was brought about by having made offerings to Kāśyapa in my previous life. Even if I were to present hundreds of thousands of various heavenly treasures to Kāśyapa, it would still not repay the kindness of a single moment.' She immediately led her handmaidens, bearing heavenly incense and flowers, and suddenly descended. In empty space she scattered them over Kāśyapa, and then came down, prostrated her whole body on the ground in reverence, stood back, joined her palms, and praised him: