諸經要集 4.58

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Furthermore, the Pusa chutai jing states: The kinnaras reside north of Mount Sumeru; passing beyond the Minor Iron Ring, there is a Great Black Mountain, and they also dwell among the Ten Jewel Mountains, where there is no Buddha-Dharma, nor sun, moon, or stars. By the power of past giving, they now dwell in palaces of the seven treasures with very long lifespans. This king was originally a great elder among humans who erected a Buddhist stūpa; this kinnara offered a single stūpa mast and completed the monastery, and further offered pure food to the craftsmen. When his life ended, he became a chest-spirit between the two mountains. Formerly, while among humans, he was a great elder with immeasurable wealth. A śramaṇa was begging for food, and his wife carried the rice out to offer it to him. He flew into a great rage: 'Why does this beggar look upon my wife? I will cause this person's hands and feet to be severed and destroyed!' After his life ended, he received this ugly form, constantly lacking hands and feet for eighty-four kalpas. Whenever the gods hold banquets, they take turns with the gandharvas. When about to ascend to the heavens to play music, sweat flows from his armpits, and he then ascends to the heavens himself. There was a kinnara named Druma who played the harp and sang of the true reality of all dharmas to praise the Bhagavat. At that time, Mount Sumeru and all the groves and trees shook and trembled; Kāśyapa could not sit peacefully on his seat, and five hundred rṣis became wildly intoxicated in mind and lost their supernatural abilities.