[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) › [冥報記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082) › 3.12 # 冥報記 3.12 冥報記 3.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3.12) 楊州卞士瑜者父。在隋以平陳功。授儀同。性慳悋。嘗雇人築宅不還其價。作人求錢。卞父鞭之。皆怨曰。若實負我。死當與我作牛。須之。卞父死。其作人牛。孕產一黃犢。腰有黑文。橫絡周匝。如人腰帶。左跨有白文。斜貫。大小正如象笏形。牛主呼之曰。卞公何為負我。犢至屈前兩膝。以頭叩地。瑜以錢十萬贖之。牛主不許。死乃葬（甄陀為臨說之）。 > The father of Bian Shiyu of Yangzhou was granted the rank of Yitong under the Sui for his merit in pacifying the Chen dynasty. By nature he was stingy. He once hired workers to build a house but did not pay them their wages. When a laborer demanded money, Bian's father whipped him. The laborer resented him, saying, 'If you truly wrong me, when you die you shall become an ox for me!' Shortly afterward, Bian's father died. That laborer's cow became pregnant and gave birth to a yellow calf. Across its waist were black markings, encircling it all around like a man's waistband. On its left hip was a white marking running diagonally across, exactly the size and shape of an ivory tablet. The cow's owner called to it, 'Duke Bian, why did you wrong me?' The calf came forward, bent its two front knees, and knocked its head on the ground. Shiyu offered one hundred thousand coins to redeem it, but the cow's owner refused. Only when it died was it buried (Zhen Tuo recounted this to me). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3.11) - [Next: 3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3.13) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082~en-mt.3.12) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.37) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.3.12) · Pramāṇa