[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) › [止觀輔行傳弘決](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912) › 3.32 # 止觀輔行傳弘決 3.32 止觀輔行傳弘決 3.32 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3.32) 尸滿相者，如須陀摩王。是王精進常依實語。欲入園遊戲，始出城門，有一婆羅門來，從我乞云：「王是福德人，愍我貧窮。」王言：「須待我還。」適至園中，有兩翅鳥王名曰鹿足，與山神共誓取一千王。已得九百九十九王，唯少須陀摩王，從空飛來捉將王去，諸女號哭哀慟一園。鹿足捉王至所住處，置諸王中。須陀摩王涕零如雨，鹿足言：「大剎利！汝何以啼泣猶如小兒？人生有死、會合有離。」須陀答言：「我不畏死。自恨生來不曾妄語，而今失信，許婆羅門行施，辜負宿心自招欺罪，是故啼耳。」鹿足言：「還去七日，施竟便來就死。若不來者，我有力取。」王還恣心布施，立太子為王，大會人民，王乃謝云：「我智不周，小不如法當見瞋怒。我今身非己有，當去。」人民親戚留之：「願王留意垂蔭此國，勿以鹿足鬼王為慮也，當設鐵舍奇兵衛護，鹿足雖神而不畏之。」王說偈言：「實語第一戒，實語升天梯，實語小人大，妄語入地獄。我今守實語，寧失身壽命。」於是發去至鹿足所。見來歡喜：「汝實語人，不失信要。人皆惜命，脫竟還來，汝是大人。」時須陀王廣讚實語、呵責妄語，鹿足聞之信心清淨，語須陀言：「汝能說此，今相放捨諸王各還本國。」如是語已，諸王各去（云云）。 > As for the marks of the fulfillment of morality: take, for example, King Sudarśana. This king was vigorous and constantly adhered to truthful speech. Wishing to go to the park to disport himself, just as he exited the city gate, a brahmin came begging from him, saying: "The king is a person of merit; pity my poverty." The king said: "Wait until I return." Just as he reached the park, a two-winged bird-king named Kalmāṣapāda, who had made a vow with a mountain spirit to capture a thousand kings, and had already obtained nine hundred and ninety-nine kings, lacking only King Sudarśana, flew down from the sky, seized the king, and carried him away. The women wept aloud, filling the park with grief. Kalmāṣapāda took the king to where he lived and placed him among the kings. King Sudarśana's tears fell like rain. Kalmāṣapāda said: "Great Kṣatriya! Why do you weep like a small child? In human life there is death; in meeting there is parting." Sudarśana answered: "I do not fear death. I only regret that since birth I have never spoken falsely, and yet now I have broken faith: having promised the brahmin to practice giving, I have failed my original intention and brought upon myself the sin of deception; that is why I weep." Kalmāṣapāda said: "Go back for seven days; when the giving is finished, come back to face death. If you do not come, I have the power to seize you." The king returned, gave gifts to his heart's content, enthroned the crown prince as king, and assembled the populace. The king then made an apology, saying: "My wisdom is incomplete; if I have acted slightly contrary to the Dharma, you must harbor anger. Today my body is not my own; I must go." The populace and relatives tried to detain him: "We pray the king will stay his thought and shower shade upon this kingdom; do not worry about the ghost-king Kalmāṣapāda. We shall erect an iron chamber and guard it with an elite army; although Kalmāṣapāda is spiritual, we do not fear him." The king spoke a verse: / "Truthful speech is the foremost precept; / Truthful speech is the ladder ascending to heaven; / Truthful speech makes the small person great; / False speech leads into hell. / I now preserve truthful speech; / I would rather lose body and life." / Thereupon he departed and went to Kalmāṣapāda's place. Seeing him come, \[Kalmāṣapāda\] was delighted: "You are a person of truthful speech, not failing your covenant of trust. All people cherish life; having escaped, you nonetheless returned—you are a great man!" At that time King Sudarśana broadly praised truthful speech and reproached false speech. Hearing this, Kalmāṣapāda's faith became pure, and he said to Sudarśana: "Since you are able to speak thus, I now release you, and the kings may each return to their own countries." Having spoken thus, the kings each departed (and so forth). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3.31) - [Next: 3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3.33) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912~en-mt.3.32) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1912.3.32) · Pramāṇa