[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384) › 6.8 # 菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 6.8 菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 6.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6.8) 「『非天、夜叉、鬼，須倫、迦樓羅； 為母除愚闇，權生父母家。 先無手足子，亦復是我身； 朝生若暮死，八住無上尊。 我今受形分，三頭八手脚； 何為捨我去，經向地獄門？ 地獄眾苦備，十八鑊湯沸； 一一鑊湯者，十六隔子圍； 受苦無量劫，求出甚為難。 父母愚惑人，不識真法性， 邪見禱神祠，謂當脫苦難； 如火焰熾盛，益以乾薪草， 焚燒善根本，求滅亦欲難。 今我還復體，現本端正形， 道本心堅固，修習三通慧， 從阿僧祇劫，誓度不度者。 守戒不失願，託生父母家， 前後捨身命，其數如微塵。 所可經歷處，靡不蒙福祐； 群品若干種，行跡各不同。 應與歡悅度，亦以恐畏化； 隨彼眾生念，令復心所願。 眾生病非一，投以甘露藥； 趣使入道撿，不令入邪徑。 諸天受福樂，甘露除病樂； 不違聖教樂，解脫涅槃樂。』 > "‘I am neither a deva, yakṣa, ghost, / Asura, nor garuḍa; / To eliminate ignorance and darkness for my mother, / I was born through skillful means in my parents' home. / The former child without hands or feet / Was also my body; / The one born in the morning and dead by evening / Was the unsurpassable honored one of the eighth stage. / Now I have received this physical form / With three heads and eight hands and feet; / Why do you abandon me and leave, / Heading directly toward the gates of hell? / Hell is replete with all sufferings, / With eighteen boiling caldrons; / Each and every boiling caldron / Is enclosed by sixteen compartments; / Enduring suffering for immeasurable kalpas, / Seeking escape is extremely difficult. / Parents are foolish and deluded people, / Not recognizing the true nature of phenomena; / Holding wrong views, you pray at spirit shrines, / Thinking you will thereby escape suffering and calamity; / Just like when a fire blazes fiercely, / Adding dry firewood and grass / Burns away the roots of goodness; / Seeking to extinguish it is also exceedingly difficult. / Now I restore my body, / Manifesting my original, handsome form; / With a firm mind in the root of the path, / I cultivate the three penetrating knowledges; / From asaṃkhyeya kalpas past, / I vowed to ferry across those who have not crossed over. / Guarding precepts without losing my vows, / I have taken birth in parents' homes, / Relinquishing body and life throughout past and present, / In numbers like fine dust motes. / Wherever I have passed through, / None have not received blessing and protection; / The various kinds of beings / Each have different traces of conduct. / Some should be delivered with joy, / Others transformed through dread and fear; / In accordance with the thoughts of those sentient beings, / I cause what their hearts desire to be fulfilled. / The illnesses of sentient beings are not of a single kind; / I administer to them the medicine of amṛta; / Directing them to enter the discipline of the path, / I do not allow them to enter deviant tracks. / Devas receive the joy of blessings; / Amṛta brings the joy of eliminating illness; / Not violating the sacred teachings brings joy; / Liberation brings the joy of nirvāṇa.’" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6.7) - [Next: 6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6.9) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384~en-mt.6.8) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.45) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.6.8) · Pramāṇa