Summary
s.1As the Buddha teaches the Dharma to the fourfold saṅgha on Vulture Peak Mountain, the brahmin and wandering mendicant Dīrghanakha approaches and questions the Buddha about his doctrine concerning the incontrovertible relationship between karma and its effects in the world. He then poses a series of ten questions regarding the karmic causes of certain attributes of the Buddha, from his vajra body to the raised uṣṇīṣa on his crown. The Buddha responds to each question with the cause for each attribute, roughly summing up the eight poṣadha vows and the ways he observed them in the past. Dīrghanakha drops his staff and bows to the Buddha, pledging to take refuge in the Three Jewels and maintain the eight poṣadha vows.
s.1佛陀在鷲峰山為四眾弟子宣講法法時，婆羅門梵誌長爪來到佛前，就關於業與其在世間結果之間不可推翻的因果關係這一教義向佛提出疑問。隨後，他提出了十個連續的問題，涉及佛陀身體各種特徵的因緣，從金剛身到頭頂上聳起的肉髻。佛陀對每個問題進行了回答，說明了每種特徵的成因，大致總結了他過去奉持的八種齋戒及其遵守方式。長爪梵誌丟下手杖，向佛頂禮，發願皈依三寶並受持八種齋戒。