維摩經疏卷第三．第六 3.24

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佛告迦葉者是性。翻為飲光。飲光是古仙名。此仙身有光明能飲諸光令不現前。故以為名也。其人是飲光仙人種族。即以為名。又自身金色亦有光明。是王舍城婆羅門種。其家巨富。婦名婆仙。其人昔於迦葉佛時作裝像師時。有一女持一金珠寄此像師修營佛像。由斯福善恒相逢遇。今值佛出世還為夫妻。身並金色。在俗無欲。同皆出家齊得羅漢。迦葉在日常與如來對坐說法。佛滅度後所有法藏悉付迦葉。迦葉後時結集三藏竟。至雞足山入滅心定。全身不散。後彌勒佛出世之時以足案山而出。在大眾中作十八變度人無量。然後滅身。未來成佛號曰光明。弟子之中頭陀第一。以無平等大悲具有四失故被呵也。文四同前。

'The Buddha told Kāśyapa': this is his clan name, translated as 'Drinker of Light'. Drinker of Light was an ancient ṛṣi's name; this ṛṣi had radiant light on his body that could drink up all lights, causing them not to appear; hence it was taken as his name. This person belonged to the lineage of the ṛṣi Drinker of Light, so he took it as his name. Furthermore, his own body was golden and also had light. He belonged to a Brahmin clan in Rājagṛha, and his family was immensely wealthy. His wife was named Bhadrā Kāpileyī. In the past, at the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, this man was a sculptor of statues. At that time, a woman brought a gold bead and entrusted it to this sculptor to repair and make a Buddha statue. Due to this meritorious wholesomeness, they constantly encountered each other; now encountering the Buddha's appearance in the world, they became husband and wife again. Both had golden bodies, had no desires while in worldly life, and both went forth together and equally attained arhatship. While Kāśyapa was alive, he often sat opposite the Tathāgata to expound the Dharma. After the Buddha passed into extinction, the entire treasury of the Dharma was entrusted to Kāśyapa. Later, after Kāśyapa concluded the compilation of the Tripiṭaka, he went to Mount Kukkuṭapāda and entered the concentration of cessation of mind, his whole body not disintegrating. Later, when Maitreya Buddha appears in the world, he will press the mountain with his foot and emerge, performing eighteen transformations amid the great assembly and delivering countless people, and only then will his body be extinguished. When he attains buddhahood in the future, his name will be Raśmiprabhāsa. Among the disciples, he is foremost in dhūta practices. Because he lacked equal great compassion and possessed four faults, he was admonished. The four sections of text are the same as before.