諸經要集 9.52

9.52

又依無量壽經云。憍梵波提。過去世曾作比丘。於他粟田邊擿一莖粟。觀其生熟數粒墮地。五百世作牛償之。故智度論云。以其習氣後得人身。產出牛蹄呞食。佛愍之出家。得阿羅漢果。

Furthermore, according to the Amitāyus-sūtra, Gavāmpati had in a past life been a bhikṣu. Beside another's millet field, he plucked a stalk of millet to observe whether it was ripe or raw, and several grains fell to the ground; for five hundred lifetimes he became an ox to repay it. Therefore the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa says that due to his residual conditioning, when he later obtained a human body, he was born with ox hooves and chewed the cud. The Buddha took pity on him and let him leave household life, and he attained the fruit of an arhat.