Verses on Dhamma 9.12.128_4

9.12.128_4

Sattame divase satthu bhikkhācāramaggassa niruddhavelāya heṭṭhāpāsāde suppabuddhassa maṅgalasso uddāmo hutvā taṃ taṃ bhittiṃ pahari. So upari nisinnovassa saddaṃ sutvā ‘‘kimeta’’nti pucchi. ‘‘Maṅgalasso uddāmo’’ti. So panasso suppabuddhaṃ disvāva sannisīdati. Atha naṃ so gaṇhitukāmo hutvā nisinnaṭṭhānā uṭṭhāya dvārābhimukho ahosi, dvārāni sayameva vivaṭāni, sopānaṃ sakaṭṭhāneyeva ṭhitaṃ. Dvāre ṭhitā mallā taṃ gīvāyaṃ gahetvā heṭṭhābhimukhaṃ khipiṃsu. Etenupāyena sattasupi talesu dvārāni sayameva vivaṭāni, sopānāni yathāṭhāne ṭhitāni. Tattha tattha mallā taṃ gīvāyameva gahetvā heṭṭhābhimukhaṃ khipiṃsu. Atha naṃ heṭṭhāpāsāde sopānapādamūlaṃ sampattameva mahāpathavī vivaramānā bhijjitvā sampaṭicchi, so gantvā avīcimhi nibbattīti.

On the seventh day after the Teacher had been prevented from continuing his alms-pilgrimage, a state charger belonging to Suppabuddha broke loose on the ground floor of the palace, and ran about kicking first this wall and then that. Suppabuddha, although sitting on the topmost floor, heard the noise and asked what was the trouble. “Your state charger has broken loose,” was the answer. When the horse saw Suppabuddha, he immediately quieted down. Suppabuddha, desiring to catch him, arose from the seat where he had been sitting and started towards the door. Precisely at that moment the doors opened of their own accord, the stairway returned to its proper place, and the strong men who were posted at the door seized him by the neck and threw him down. In the same way the doors on all seven floors opened of their own accord, the stairways returned to their proper places, and the strong men who were posted at the doors seized him by the neck and threw him down. When he landed at the bottom of the stairway on the ground floor, at that moment the great earth opened and split apart and swallowed him up, and he descended therein and was reborn in the Avīci Hell.