Even His Own Body
The ten words spoken in Part 1152 turn at once into a single decree — a drum struck, every storehouse in the kingdom thrown open, and a list of what is given away that climbs, without pause, from gold and grain to his own wives, his own throne, and finally sixteen named parts of his own body.
A Drum, and Every Storehouse Opened
Words become action in a single stroke — literally, a drumbeat — and a kingdom's entire material wealth is carried out to the crossroads for anyone to take.
「作是語已，擊鼓宣令：『我今普施一切眾生，隨有所須悉令充足。』即時頒下閻浮提內大小諸城及諸聚落，悉開庫藏，出種種物，置四衢道。所謂：金、銀、瑠璃、摩尼等寶；衣服、飲食、華香、瓔珞、宮殿、屋宅、床榻、敷具；建大光明摩尼寶幢，其光觸身，悉使安隱；亦施一切病緣湯藥；種種寶器盛眾雜寶，金剛器中盛種種香，寶香器中盛種種衣；輦輿、車乘、幢幡、繒蓋。如是一切資生之物，悉開庫藏而以給施。
"Having spoken these words, he struck a drum and issued a proclamation: 'I now give universally to every being, and whatever anyone needs, I will cause it to be entirely fulfilled.' At once he decreed it throughout Jambudvīpa, in every city large and small and every settlement, that every storehouse be opened, its every kind of goods brought out, and placed at the crossroads. Namely: gold, silver, lapis lazuli, maṇi, and other such treasures; clothing, food and drink, flowers and incense, necklaces, palaces, houses, couches, and bedding; he raised banners of great light-emitting maṇi jewels, whose light, touching the body, brought peace and ease to all; he also gave every kind of medicine for the relief of sickness; every kind of jewelled vessel filled with every mixed treasure, vajra vessels filled with every kind of incense, jewelled-incense vessels filled with every kind of clothing; palanquins, carriages, banners, and canopies. Every such necessity of life, he had every storehouse opened and gave it all away.
隨有所須悉令充足 — whatever anyone needs, I will cause it to be entirely fulfilled. The proclamation makes no distinction of rank, need, or worthiness — it is addressed to 一切眾生, every being, without qualification, and the goods that follow are placed 置四衢道, at the crossroads, not distributed by petition or through any official's hand. Anyone passing through an intersection in this kingdom could simply take what the moment before had been the crown treasury.
Sixteen Parts of His Own Body
The list does not stop at treasure. It continues past land and family and crown, and only then reaches its final and most exacting item.
亦施一切村營、城邑、山澤、林藪、妻子、眷屬及以王位，頭、目、耳、鼻、脣、舌、牙、齒、手、足、皮、肉、心、腎、肝、肺，內外所有，悉皆能捨。
He also gave every village and encampment, every city and town, every mountain, marsh, forest, and thicket, his wives and children, his kin and household, and even his own royal throne; his head, eyes, ears, nose, lips, tongue, molars, teeth, hands, feet, skin, flesh, heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs — everything he had, within and without, he was able to give up entirely.
頭、目、耳、鼻、脣、舌、牙、齒、手、足、皮、肉、心、腎、肝、肺 — counted directly against the source, exactly sixteen parts of the king's own body close this list, moving outward to inward: head, eyes, ears, nose, lips, tongue, molars, teeth, and hands and feet, before the list crosses from what is visible into what is not — skin, flesh, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs. 內外所有, everything within and without, is the phrase that closes it, and by the time it arrives, that phrase has already been demonstrated rather than merely stated: the sentence has walked the reader from the surface of the body to its organs before naming the category it belongs to.
Part 1153 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-two. Part 1154 turns from what was given to where it was given — a gathering-place beyond the city's eastern gate, built entirely of jewels, and the lion-throne prepared at its centre.