菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 4.20

4.20

爾時，彌勒菩薩即從坐起，手執金剛七寶神杖，敲鈎鎖骸骨聽彼骨聲，即白佛言：「此人命終瞋恚結多，識墮龍中。」次復敲骨。「此人前身十跡行具，得生天上。」次復敲骨。「此人前身破戒犯律，生地獄中。」如是敲骨，有漏、無漏、有為、無為，上從二十八天，下至無救地獄，知識所趣善惡果報白黑行報。有一全身舍利無有缺減，爾時彌勒以杖敲之，推尋此識了不知識處。如是三敲，前白佛言：「此人神識了不可知，將非如來入涅槃耶？」

At that time, Maitreya Bodhisattva immediately arose from his seat, held a diamond, seven-jeweled divine staff in his hand, tapped the interlinked skeleton bones, and listened to the sound of those bones. He then said to the Buddha: "When this person's life ended, his bonds of anger were abundant; his consciousness fell among the nāgas." Next he tapped another bone: "This person in his former life was fully equipped with the practice of the ten paths of action; he was reborn in heaven." Next he tapped another bone: "This person in his former life broke the precepts and violated the monastic rules; he was born in hell." Tapping the bones in this manner, whether defiled or undefiled, conditioned or unconditioned, from the twenty-eight heavens above down to the Hell of No Rescue below, he knew the destinies of their consciousness, their good and bad karmic fruits, and the retributions of their black and white deeds. There was an intact complete-body śarīra with nothing lacking or diminished. At that time, Maitreya tapped it with his staff and investigated, but could not know where this consciousness was at all. Having tapped it three times like this, he stepped forward and said to the Buddha: "This person's spiritual consciousness cannot be known at all. Could it be that the Tathāgata has entered nirvāṇa?"