釋氏要覽 1.19

1.19

經云。昔有轉輪王。名大自在。子孫相承。合有八萬四千王。最後王名大茅草。垂老無子。乃委政大臣。自剃髮出家。眾號王僊。極老不能行履。諸弟子輩時行乞食。遂以草籠盛王僊懸於樹。虞虎狼之害也。有獵人望見謂是白鳥乃射之死。血瀝于地。諸弟子歸見師被害。即共殯尸其血瀝之地後時忽生甘蔗二本。日炙開剖。一生童子。一生童女。大臣聞迎取歸宮。養育長成。以王種故。遂立為王。命氏甘蔗始也（或梵云。喬答摩。或憍曇彌。二姓華言最勝。經音疏云。皆甘蔗王種也。順正理論云。喬答摩種。生於日光）。

A sūtra states: Formerly there was a wheel-turning king named Mahāsammata. Descendants succeeded one another, totaling 84,000 kings. The last king was named Great Thatch Grass. In his advanced age he had no son, so he entrusted the government to his great ministers, shaved his hair himself, and undertook pravrajyā. The multitude called him the Royal Ṛṣi. Being extremely old, he was unable to walk. When his disciples went out to beg for food at that time, they placed the Royal Ṛṣi in a grass basket and hung it from a tree, fearing harm from tigers and wolves. A hunter saw him from afar, thought he was a white bird, shot him, and killed him, his blood dripping onto the ground. The disciples returned, saw that their master had been murdered, and buried the corpse together. Later, at the place where his blood had dripped, two stalks of sugarcane suddenly sprouted. Warmed and split open by the sun, one produced a boy and the other produced a girl. The ministers heard of this, welcomed them back to the palace, and raised them to adulthood. Because they were of royal stock, they established [the boy] as king. The clan was named Ikṣvāku, which was the beginning. (Or in Sanskrit, Gautama or Gautamī; both surnames mean 'Supreme' in Chinese. A commentary on the sūtra's sounds says: 'Both are of King Sugarcane's lineage.' The Nyāyānusāra states: 'The Gautama lineage was born from sunlight.')