諸經要集 20.69

20.69

Furthermore, the New Mahāvibhāṣā states: In the past, in the kingdom of Takṣaśilā, a woman came to the place where King Candraprabha gave away his thousand heads, to worship the shrine built by King Aśoka. Seeing dog dung in front of the Buddha's seat, she immediately thought: 'This place is pure; how can dog dung defile it?' She lifted and removed it with her hands, and plastered and adorned [the ground] with fragrant mud. Due to the power of this wholesome karma, this woman's entire body gave off a fragrance like that of a sandalwood tree, and her mouth constantly emitted the fragrance of blue lotuses. If sentient beings, due to not protecting purity, incur external defilements through internal afflictions, therefore a treatise verse says: