SĀ 1099
Saṃyuktāgama杂阿含经
SA 1099（一〇九九） 众多
Parallel to: SN 4.21
Thus have I heard: | 如是我闻： |
At one time, the Buddha was staying at the Śākya Stone Master Śākya village. At that time, many bhikṣus gathered in the Dharma hall to make robes. | 一时，佛住释氏石主释氏聚落。时，有众多比丘集供养堂，为作衣事。 |
At that time, Māra Pāpīyān thought: "Now the Śramaṇa Gautama is staying at the Śākya Stone Master Śākya village, and many bhikṣus have gathered in the Dharma hall to make robes. I should go there now to create obstacles for them." He transformed himself into the appearance of a young brāhman, with long matted hair, wearing a fur robe, and holding a staff in his hand. He went to the Dharma hall and stood silently in front of the many bhikṣus. After a while, he said to the bhikṣus: "You young ones have left home, with fair skin and black hair, in the prime of your youth. You should enjoy the five desires and adorn yourselves. Why do you go against your relatives and leave your clans, weeping and parting, to believe in non-home and leave home to study the path? Why do you abandon the happiness of this world and seek the happiness of the other world at the wrong time?" | 时，魔波旬作是念：「今沙门瞿昙住于释氏石主释氏聚落，众多比丘集供养堂，为作衣故，我今当往，为作留难。」化作少壮婆罗门像，作大萦发，著兽皮衣，手执曲杖，诣供养堂，于众多比丘前默然而住。须臾，语诸比丘言：「汝等年少出家，肤白发黑，年在盛时，应受五欲庄严自娱，如何违亲背族，悲泣别离，信于非家，出家学道？何为舍现世乐，而求他世非时之乐？」 |
The bhikṣus said to the brāhman: "We do not abandon the happiness of this world to seek the happiness of the other world at the wrong time. Rather, we abandon the happiness of the wrong time to attain the happiness of this world." | 诸比丘语婆罗门：「我不舍现世乐求他世非时之乐，乃是舍非时乐就现世乐。」 |
Māra again asked: "How do you abandon the happiness of the wrong time to attain the happiness of this world?" | 波旬复问：「云何舍非时乐就现世乐？」 |
The bhikṣu replied: "As the World-Honored One has said, the happiness of the other world has little taste and much suffering, little benefit and much harm. The World-Honored One has spoken of the happiness of this world as being free from all burning, not dependent on time, able to be self-realized, and observed through one's own realization. Brāhman, this is called the happiness of this world." | 比丘答言：「如世尊说，他世乐少味多苦，少利多患；世尊说现世乐者，离诸炽然，不待时节，能自通达，于此观察，缘自觉知。婆罗门！是名现世乐。」 |
At that time, the brāhman shook his head three times and became mute. He struck the ground with his staff and then disappeared. | 时，婆罗门三反掉头瘖痖，以杖筑地，即没不现。 |
At that time, the bhikṣus were terrified and their body hairs stood on end. "What kind of brāhman image is this, coming here to perform this transformation?" They then went to where the Buddha was, bowed their heads at his feet, withdrew and sat to one side, and said to the Buddha: "World-Honored One! We, many bhikṣus, gathered in the Dharma hall to make robes. A strong and young brāhman, with a topknot of matted hair, came to us and said: 'You young ones who have left home...' As above, it is extensively explained, up to shaking his head three times and becoming mute, striking the ground with his staff, and then disappearing. We were then terrified and our body hairs stood on end. What kind of brāhman image is this, coming to perform this transformation?" | 时，诸比丘即生恐怖，身毛皆竖，此是何等婆罗门像，来此作变？即诣佛所，稽首礼足，退坐一面，白佛言：「世尊！我等众多比丘集供养堂，为作衣故。有一盛壮婆罗门，萦发大髻，来诣我所，作是言：『汝等年少出家……』」如上广说，乃至三反掉头瘖痖，以杖筑地，即没不现。「我等即生恐怖，身毛皆竖，是何婆罗门像，来作此变？」 |
The Buddha told the bhikṣus: "This is not a brāhman, but Māra Pāpīyas who has come to you, wanting to cause trouble." At that time, the World-Honored One then spoke a verse, saying: | 佛告诸比丘：「此非婆罗门，是魔波旬来至汝所，欲作娆乱。」尔时，世尊即说偈言： |
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Having spoken this sūtra, the bhikṣus heard what the Buddha said and joyfully upheld it. | 佛说此经已，诸比丘闻佛所说，欢喜奉行。 |
Translated from Chinese using Gemma-2-Mitra (Buddhist-NLP).
This is the classical Chinese root text of Saṃyuktāgama, a parallel to the Pali sutta(s) listed above. Source: CBETA (Taishō edition).