仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經 2.6

2.6

「大王！昔天羅國王，有一太子名曰斑足，登王位時，有外道師名為善施，與王灌頂，乃令斑足取千王頭，以祀塚間摩訶迦羅大黑天神。自登王位，已得九百九十九王，唯少一王。北行萬里，乃得一王名曰普明。其普明王白斑足言：『願聽一日禮敬三寶、飯食沙門。』斑足聞已即便許之。其王乃依過去諸佛所說教法，敷百高座，請百法師，一日二時講說般若波羅蜜多八千億偈。時彼眾中第一法師，為普明王而說偈言：

"Great King! Formerly, the king of the realm of Aśmaka had a crown prince named Kalmāṣapāda. When he ascended the royal throne, there was a non-Buddhist master named Sudatta who conferred abhiṣeka on the king and caused Kalmāṣapāda to take the heads of one thousand kings to sacrifice in the charnel ground to the great spirit Mahākāla. From the time he ascended the royal throne, he had already obtained nine hundred and ninety-nine kings, lacking only one king. Traveling ten thousand li to the north, he then captured a king named Samantaprabhāsa. That King Samantaprabhāsa addressed Kalmāṣapāda, saying: 'I pray you permit me one day to pay homage to the Three Jewels and provide meals to the śramaṇas.' Having heard this, Kalmāṣapāda immediately consented. That king then relied on the teaching spoken by the past Buddhas: he arranged one hundred high seats and invited one hundred Dharma masters to expound eight hundred billion verses of Prajñāpāramitā twice a day for one day. At that time, the foremost Dharma master in that assembly spoke a verse for King Samantaprabhāsa: