大方便佛報恩經 1.46

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1.46

"At that time, the great king and the queen, having contemplated this suffering, wept aloud uncontrollably. The king fainted from sorrow and threw his body to the ground; reviving after a long time, he again thought to himself: 'If I do not devise an upāya, all three of us will perish together and will not escape dying here. Why should I not now kill the queen, so as to preserve my own life and prolong our son's life?' Having thought this, he immediately drew his sword, intending to kill the queen. His son Sujāti, seeing his father's abnormal demeanor and his right hand drawing the sword to kill his mother, stepped forward, seized the king's hand, and said to his father the king: 'What do you wish to do?'"

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大方便佛報恩經 — Classical Chinese