諸經要集 9.52

9.52

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.