Dighanikaya 9.411_3

9.411_3

Dutiyo naṃ nisedhetvā migasiṅgatāpasassa asaññakabhāvaṃ gahetvā – ‘‘upetipi apetipī’’ti āha. Migasiṅgatāpaso kira attantapo ghoratapo paramadhitindriyo ahosi. Tassa sīlatejena sakkavimānaṃ uṇhaṃ ahosi. Sakko devarājā ‘‘sakkaṭṭhānaṃ nu kho tāpaso patthetī’’ti alambusaṃ nāma devakaññaṃ – ‘tāpasassa tapaṃ bhinditvā ehī’ti pesesi. Sā tattha gatā. Tāpaso paṭhamadivase taṃ disvāva palāyitvā paṇṇasālaṃ pāvisi. Dutiyadivase kāmacchandanīvaraṇena bhaggo taṃ hatthe aggahesi, so tena dibbaphassena phuṭṭho visaññī hutvā tiṇṇaṃ saṃvaccharānaṃ accayena saññaṃ paṭilabhi. Taṃ so diṭṭhigatiko – ‘‘tiṇṇaṃ saṃvaccharānaṃ accayena nirodhā vuṭṭhito’’ti maññamāno evamāha.

The second one, refuting him and taking up the unconscious state of the ascetic Migasiṅga, said: "They arrive and they depart." The ascetic Migasiṅga, it is said, was a self-mortifier of terrible austerities, with supreme steadfastness of faculties. By the heat of his virtue, Sakka's heavenly mansion became hot. Sakka, king of the devas, thinking, 'Does the ascetic perhaps aspire to the status of Sakka?', sent a heavenly maiden named Alambusā, saying, 'Go, break the ascetic's asceticism, and return.' She went there. On the first day, the ascetic, as soon as he saw her, fled and entered his leaf hut. On the second day, overcome by the hindrance of sensual desire, he took her hand. Touched by that divine touch, he became unconscious, and only with the passing of three years did he regain perception. That holder of views, thinking, 'With the passing of three years he emerged from cessation,' said this.