[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) › [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037) › 3.181 # 釋氏稽古略 3.181 釋氏稽古略 3.181 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.181) 癸酉貞元九年正月。監鐵使張滂請稅茶。九州縣產茶。及茶山皆估。其直什稅一。茶稅初於此　壽州毛罕妻。興元元年產一子。名毛債。猪頭象耳騾足魚腮人身。既長每以鐵杖自鞭其身。持篠帚金田掃地。謂人曰。夙因盜常住錢金故掃地以償也。後越州雲門有讚之者曰。常住分文不可偷。日生萬倍恐難酬。猪頭騾脚分明見。佛地今生掃未休。至是庚酉年毛債死（佛祖通載并感業傳）。 > In the first month of the ninth year of Zhenyuan, a guiyou year, Zhang Pang, the Salt and Iron Monopoly Commissioner, requested to levy a tax on tea. The tea produced in the nine prefectures and counties, as well as the tea mountains, were all appraised, and one-tenth of their value was taxed. The tea tax began with this. The wife of Mao Han of Shouzhou gave birth in the first year of Xingyuan to a son named Mao Zhai ('Mao Debt'), who had a pig's head, elephant's ears, mule's feet, fish's gills, and a human body. When he grew up, he always whipped himself with an iron rod, and held a broom to sweep the ground in the golden field (the monastery). He said to people, 'Because of a past cause of stealing gold and coins from the Sangha's permanent property, I sweep the ground to repay it.' Later, someone at Yunmen in Yuezhou praised him, saying: 'Not a penny of the permanent property may be stolen; / Compounded ten thousand times daily, it is hard to repay. / Pig's head and mule's feet clearly visible; / In this life on Buddha-ground, sweeping without cease.' Reaching this guiyou year, Mao Zhai died (Fozu tongzai and Ganye zhuan). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.180) - [Next: 3.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.182) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.3.181) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.31) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.181) · Pramāṇa