Visuddhimagga XII-28

Saṃkiccattherassa pana gabbhagatasseva mātā kālamakāsi. Tassā citakaṃ āropetvā sūlehi vijjhitvā jhāpiyamānāya dārako sūlakoṭiyā akkhikūṭe pahāraṃ labhitvā saddaṃ akāsi. Tato dārako jīvatīti otāretvā kucchiṃ phāletvā dārakaṃ ayyikāya adaṃsu. So tāya paṭijaggito vuddhimanvāya pabbajitvā saha paṭisambhidāhi arahattaṃ pāpuṇi. Iti vuttanayeneva dārucitakāya arogabhāvo āyasmato saṃkiccassa ñāṇavipphārā iddhi nāma.

2)其次僧结笈长老当在母胎之时,他的母亲便死了,当用叉贯穿她的尸体放到薪堆去烧的时候,因叉触及胎儿的眼窝而出哭声,于是人们说:「胎儿尚生存」!「便取尸而剖其腹,出幼儿给与他的祖母。他由祖母养育成年而出家,得证与四无碍解共的阿罗汉果。这样于火葬堆中而得无恙,因与上述(尊者薄拘罗)同样的理由,是尊者僧结笈的「智遍满神变」。

Ñ(XII,28): The Elder Saṃkicca's mother died while he was still in her womb. At the time of her cremation she was pierced by stakes and placed on a pyre. The infant received a wound on the corner of his eye from the point of a stake and made a sound. Then, thinking that the child must be alive, they took down the body and opened its belly. They gave the child to the grandmother. Under her care he grew up, and eventually he went forth and reached Arahantship together with the discriminations. So the venerable Saṃkicca's safe survival on the pyre is called 'success by intervention of knowledge' in the way just stated (see DhA.ii,240).



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