諸經要集 11.42

11.42

Also the Zabaozang jing says: In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, King Prasenajit had a daughter named Shanguang (Prabhāvatī). She was intelligent, upright, and beautiful. Her parents cherished her, and the entire palace loved and respected her. Her father said to the daughter, 'It is through my power that the entire palace loves and respects you.' The daughter answered her father, 'I have my own karma; it is not due to my father the king.' Hearing this, the king became angry and said to her, 'Now I shall test whether you have the power of your own karma.' He immediately sent attendants to find the lowliest, poorest begging man, and gave his daughter to him. The king said to the daughter, 'You have your own karma and do not rely on me; from now on this may be tested.' The daughter still replied, 'I have the power of karma.' She then set out together with the poor man. The wife asked the husband, 'Do you have parents?' The husband replied to the wife, 'My parents were formerly the foremost elders in this city of Śrāvastī. My parents and household have all died out; having nothing to rely upon, I therefore became a destitute beggar.' The wife further asked, 'Do you now know where the old residence was?' He replied, 'I know the place, but the residence was destroyed and has become vacant ground.' The husband and wife went together to the old residence. As she walked all around it with peaceful steps, hidden treasures naturally emerged wherever she walked. They then hired people with the precious treasures to build a residence; before a month was full, the palace and residences were all completed, with palace attendants, singing girls, male and female slaves, and servants beyond counting. The king suddenly remembered, 'How is my daughter Shanguang making a living?' Someone replied to the king, 'The young lady Shanguang's palaces and wealth are not inferior to the king's.' That very day the king's daughter sent her husband to go and invite the king. The king accepted the invitation, and seeing the adornment of their household palaces and mansions, marveled that such had never been seen before. The king went to ask the Buddha, 'What meritorious karma did this woman create in past lives that she was born into a royal house and has light emanating from her body?' The Buddha replied to the king: 'Ninety-one kalpas ago in the distant past, after the Buddha Vipaśyin entered nirvāṇa, there was a King Bandhumat who built a seven-jeweled stūpa with the Buddha's relics. The king's chief consort saw it and immediately took off her heavenly crown and whisks to place them atop the image's head, and placed the cintāmaṇi from the heavenly crown on top of the stūpa pole. Thereupon she made a vow, saying: "May I in the future have radiance on my body, be of purple-sheen golden colour, exalted, noble, and wealthy, and never fall into the three evil destinies or the eight difficult circumstances." The consort of that time is now Shanguang. Later, at the time of the past Buddha Kāśyapa, she again wished to offer fine delicacies to the Buddha and the Saṃgha, but her husband obstructed her. The wife then urged and requested: "I have already made the invitation; please allow it to be fully provided." The husband relented and consented to the wife. The wife at that time is now Shanguang; the husband at that time is the husband of today. Because he formerly obstructed his wife, he was perpetually poor and base; because he relented and consented, he necessarily attained great wealth and nobility through his wife, and without his wife he would afterwards return to poverty and baseness. By this cause and condition, wholesome and evil karma follow the body to receive retribution, never failing.'