[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大方便佛報恩經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156) › 5.43 # 大方便佛報恩經 5.43 大方便佛報恩經 5.43 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.43) 爾時華色比丘尼即入三昧，以神通力，放大光明，照閻浮提，請召有緣天龍、鬼神、人及非人，於大眾中即自說言：「我在家時，是舍衛國人。父母嫁我與北方人。彼國風俗，其婦有娠，埀欲產時，還父母家。如是次第數年生子，後復有娠。埀產之日，皆乘車馬，夫妻相將，歸父母家。中路有河，其水瀑長。其路曠絕，多諸賊難。既至河已，不能得渡，住宿岸邊。於初夜時，我腹卒痛，即便起坐。未久之間，即便㝃身，生一男兒。岸邊草中有大毒蛇聞新血香，即來趣我。未至我所，我夫及奴眠在道中。蛇至奴所，尋便螫殺；前至夫所，夫眠不覺，亦螫殺夫。我時唱喚：『蛇來！蛇來！』喚夫不應，夫奴已死。爾時毒蛇亦螫牛馬。至日出已，其夫身體膖脹爛壞，骨節解散，狼籍在地。憂悲恐怖，悶絕躃地；舉聲大哭，以手搥胸；自拔頭髮，塵土坌身。尋復悶絕，舉身投骨。如是憂苦，經留數日，獨在岸邊，其水漸小。荷負小兒，以手牽持，其新產者，以裙盛之，銜著口中，即前入水。正到河半，反視大兒，見一猛虎犇走馳逐，開口唱喚，口即失裙，嬰兒沒水。以手探摸，而竟不獲；其背上者，失手落水，尋復沒喪；其岸上者為虎所食。我見是已，心肝分裂，口吐熱血，舉聲大哭：『怪哉！怪哉！我今一旦見此禍酷！』即到岸上，悶絕躃地。 > Then the bhikṣuṇī Utpalavarṇā entered samādhi and, through her supernormal power, emitted a great radiance that illuminated Jambudvīpa, summoning devas, nāgas, ghosts, spirits, humans, and non-humans who had karmic affinity. In the midst of the great assembly, she said of herself: "When I was in household life, I was a person of Śrāvastī. My parents married me to a man of the north. According to the customs of that country, when a woman is pregnant and on the verge of giving birth, she returns to her parents' home. In this way, I sequentially bore children over several years, and later became pregnant again. On the day near delivery, riding in carts and on horses, husband and wife accompanying each other, we set off for my parents' home. Midway, there was a river whose waters suddenly surged. The road was vast and deserted, with many perils from bandits. Having reached the river, we were unable to cross and lodged for the night on the riverbank. During the first watch of the night, a sudden pain seized my abdomen, and I sat up. Before long, I gave birth, delivering a baby boy. In the grass on the riverbank, there was a great venomous snake that smelled the scent of fresh blood, and it came toward me. Before it reached where I was, my husband and servant were sleeping on the path. When the snake reached the servant, it immediately bit and killed him; advancing to my husband, my husband slept unaware, and it also bit and killed him. At that time, I cried out and summoned them: 'A snake has come! A snake has come!' I called my husband, but there was no reply; my husband and servant were already dead. At that time, the venomous snake also bit the oxen and horses. When the sun had risen, my husband's body swelled, decomposed, and rotted, his joints fell apart, scattered across the ground. In grief, sorrow, and terror, I fainted and collapsed to the ground; raising my voice, I wept aloud, beating my breast with my hands; I pulled out my hair, and covered my body with dust and dirt. Soon I fainted again, casting my whole body onto the bones. Living in such grief and suffering for several days, alone on the riverbank, the water gradually receded. Carrying the young child and holding him with my hand, and placing the newborn in my skirt, holding it in my mouth, I stepped forward into the water. Right in the middle of the river, I looked back at the older boy and saw a fierce tiger running and chasing after him. As I opened my mouth to cry out, the skirt dropped from my mouth, and the infant sank into the water. I reached out with my hand to grope for him, but in the end did not find him; the child upon my back slipped from my grasp, fell into the water, and soon also sank and was lost; the child on the bank was eaten by the tiger. Seeing this, my heart and liver were torn apart; I spat hot blood and raised my voice in loud weeping: 'Alas! Alas! That I should suddenly suffer this harsh calamity in a single day!' I reached the riverbank, fainted, and collapsed to the ground. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.42) - [Next: 5.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.44) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156~en-mt.5.43) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [ཐབས་མཁས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲིན་ལན་བསབ་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.353.5.20) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.43) · Pramāṇa