Visuddhimagga XII-109

Tena kho pana samayena nandopanandassa nāgarājassa evarūpaṃ pāpakaṃ diṭṭhigataṃ uppannaṃ hoti – ‘‘ime hi nāma muṇḍakā samaṇakā amhākaṃ uparūparibhavanena devānaṃ tāvatiṃsānaṃ bhavanaṃ pavisantipi nikkhamantipi, na dāni ito paṭṭhāya imesaṃ amhākaṃ matthake pādapaṃsuṃ okirantānaṃ gantuṃ dassāmī’’ti uṭṭhāya sinerupādaṃ gantvā taṃ attabhāvaṃ vijahitvā sineruṃ sattakkhattuṃ bhogehi parikkhipitvā upari phaṇaṃ katvā tāvatiṃsabhavanaṃ avakujjena phaṇena gahetvā adassanaṃ gamesi.

此时,难陀优波难陀便起了这样的恶见:「真的,这些秃头沙门,次第的经过我的上方世界,出入于三十三天界,自今以后,不许他们走在我的上面,散布他的足尘」,便起来跑到须弥山之麓,舍了他的真相,盘绕须弥山七匝,展开他的头在上面,又把头从上而向下,遮住三十三天,令不能见。

Ñ(XII,109): Then this evil view arose in Nandopananda the royal nāga: 'There go these bald-headed monks in and out of the realm of the Thirty-three directly over my realm. I will not have them scattering the dirt off their feet on our heads'. He got up, and he went to the foot of Sineru. Changing his form, he surrounded it seven times with his coils. Then he spread his hood over the realm of the Thirty-three and made everything there invisible.



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