諸經要集 14.7

14.7

Furthermore, the Vinaya of the Dharmaguptakas says: 'In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, there was a householder in the city of Śrāvastī who constantly made offerings to the arhat monk Kālodayin. The householder had only one son, and when he grew up, took a wife for him. When the householder was near death, he instructed his son: "After I die, you must attend to the Venerable Kālodayin just as I do today, and do not let him lack anything." After the parents passed away, the son upheld the parents' instruction and again made offerings to Kālodayin, with no difference from when his father was alive. Later, at another time, the householder's son went out on travel and was away, entrusting his wife to make the offerings. On that day, there was a band of five hundred thieves. Among them was a thief whose face was handsome. Seeing him from afar, the wife sent a messenger to call him over, and then engaged in an illicit affair with him. Because Kālodayin frequently went to their home, the wife feared that the śramaṇa would disclose this matter, and later, together with this thief, devised a way to murder him. When King Prasenajit heard that the Venerable Kālodayin had been murdered by a thief, the king, remembering the Venerable One, was enraged and distraught; he immediately executed the householder's family, and also killed over eighteen neighboring households, captured the five hundred thieves, cut off their heads and feet, and threw them into the moat. The monks, having seen this, said to the Buddha: "What evil did Kālodayin commit in the past that caused him to be murdered by the householder's wife?" The Buddha told the monks: "In the distant past, Kālodayin was the master of a great deva shrine. Five hundred men led a single sheep, severed its four legs, and brought it to the deva shrine to make a vow together. Once the shrine master obtained it, he slaughtered it. Because of slaughtering the sheep, he fell into hell and underwent immeasurable suffering. The shrine master of that time is now Kālodayin. Although he attained the status of an arhat, the residue of his calamity was not yet exhausted, so now he received this retribution. The sheep at that time is now this wife. The five hundred men who severed the sheep's legs at that time are the five hundred thieves whose hands and feet were severed by the king today." The Buddha told the monks: "When a person commits slaughter, the karmic retribution received never perishes."'