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大唐西域記 6.12

大唐西域記 6.12

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Classical Chinese

6.12

伽藍後不遠,是外道梵志殺婬女以謗佛處。如來十力無畏,一切種智,人、天宗仰,聖賢遵奉。時諸外道共相議曰:「宜行詭詐,眾中謗辱。」乃誘雇婬女,詐為聽法,眾所知已,密而殺之,埋屍樹側,稱怨告王。王命求訪,於逝多園得其屍焉。是時外道高聲唱言:「喬答摩大沙門常稱戒忍,今私此女,殺而滅口。既婬既殺,何戒何忍?」諸天空中隨聲唱曰:「外道凶人為此謗耳。」

Not far behind the sangharama (of Anathapindada) is the place where the Brahmacharins killed a courtesan, in order to lay the charge of murdering her on Buddha (in order to slander him). Now Tathagata was possessed of the tenfold powers, without fear, perfectly wise, honoured by men and Devas, reverenced by saints and sages; then the heretics consulting together said, "We must devise some evil about him, that we may slander him before the congregation." Accordingly they allured and bribed this courtesan to come, as it were, to hear Buddha preach, and then, the congregation having knowledge of the fact of her presence, they (the heretics) took her and secretly killed her and buried her body beside a tree, and then, pretending to be affected with resentment, they acquainted the king (with the fact of the woman's death). The king ordered search to be made, and the body was found in the Jetavana. Then the heretics with a loud voice said, "This great Sramana Gautama is ever preaching about moral duty and about patience (forbearance), but now having had secret correspondence with this woman, he has killed her so as to stop her mouth; but now, in the presence of adultery and murder, what room is there for morality and continence?" The Devas then in the sky joined together their voices and chanted, "This is a slander of the infamous heretics."

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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