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如是我聞：
一時，佛在王舍城迦蘭陀竹T 0378a29林。爾時，陀驃比丘往詣佛所，於大眾中，頂禮T 0378b01佛足，白佛言：「世尊！我於今者，欲入涅槃，唯願T 0378b02世尊聽我滅度。」如是三請。佛告陀驃：「汝入涅T 0378b03槃，我不遮汝。」時，陀驃比丘於如來前，作十八T 0378b04種變，踊身虛空。即於東方，現四威儀，青黃赤T 0378b05白，種種色像，或現為水，或現火聚。身上出T 0378b06水，身下出火。身上出火，身下出水。或現大T 0378b07身，滿虛空中，或復現小。履水如地，履地如T 0378b08水。南西北方，亦復如是。作是事已，即於空T 0378b09中，入火光三昧，火炎熾然，如大火聚，即入涅T 0378b10槃，無有遺燼，猶如酥油一時融盡。
爾時，世T 0378b11尊即說偈言：
T 0378b12「譬如熱鐵， 椎打星流。 散已尋滅，T 0378b13
莫知所至。 得正解脫， 亦復如是。T 0378b14
已出煩惱， 諸欲淤泥。 莫能知彼，T 0378b15
所趣方所。」
T 0378b16佛說是已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。
T 0378b17SC 1Thus have I heard, once, the Buddha was staying in Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove of Kalanda.
SC 2At that time the monk Dabba went to where the Buddha was. Among a great number of people, he paid homage at his feet and said: “World-honored One! I am to enter Nirvāṇa now. Please allow me to do so in your presence.” Having been asked in this way three times, the Buddha answered: “Enter Nirvāṇa then. I do not hinder you.” Then the monk Dabba displayed the eighteen kinds of miraculous transformation. He rose up in the air, appeared in the east in all four postures, and turning various colours: green, yellow, red, white etc. One moment he appeared like water, then like a mass of fire. He made his upper body emit water and his lower body fire, then he made his upper body emit fire and his lower body water. One moment his body appeared huge, covering the sky, then it appeared minute. He walked on water as if on land, he passed through earth as if through water. In the south, west and north he did the same. Having finished this, while still hovering in the sky, he entered the fire-blaze samādhi. Bursting into flames in a great mass of fire he entered Nirvāṇa, leaving nothing behind. It was like fine oil burning cleanly away without remainder.
There the World-honored One spoke this verse:
SC 3“As from a glowing piece of iron /
struck by a hammer sparks fly up;
looking for them, once dispersed, extinguished /
no one knows where they have gone.SC 4Attaining true liberation /
is just like this:
once rid of afflictions, /
the quicksand of desires,
no one knows /
whither he went.”
SC 5When the Buddha had finished speaking, the monks, having listened to what he had said, were happy and remembered it well.
SC 1Thus have I heard, once, the Buddha was staying in Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove of Kalanda.
SC 2At that time the monk Dabba went to where the Buddha was. Among a great number of people, he paid homage at his feet and said: “World-honored One! I am to enter Nirvāṇa now. Please allow me to do so in your presence.” Having been asked in this way three times, the Buddha answered: “Enter Nirvāṇa then. I do not hinder you.” Then the monk Dabba displayed the eighteen kinds of miraculous transformation. He rose up in the air, appeared in the east in all four postures, and turning various colours: green, yellow, red, white etc. One moment he appeared like water, then like a mass of fire. He made his upper body emit water and his lower body fire, then he made his upper body emit fire and his lower body water. One moment his body appeared huge, covering the sky, then it appeared minute. He walked on water as if on land, he passed through earth as if through water. In the south, west and north he did the same. Having finished this, while still hovering in the sky, he entered the fire-blaze samādhi. Bursting into flames in a great mass of fire he entered Nirvāṇa, leaving nothing behind. It was like fine oil burning cleanly away without remainder.
There the World-honored One spoke this verse:
SC 3“As from a glowing piece of iron /
struck by a hammer sparks fly up;
looking for them, once dispersed, extinguished /
no one knows where they have gone.SC 4Attaining true liberation /
is just like this:
once rid of afflictions, /
the quicksand of desires,
no one knows /
whither he went.”
SC 5When the Buddha had finished speaking, the monks, having listened to what he had said, were happy and remembered it well.