經律異相 21.25

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佛住王舍城。是時提婆達多。欲破和合僧。比丘三諫而亦不止。佛言。過去世時。波羅奈國。有一婆羅門。於曠野中造立義井。供給行者。日已向暮。有群野干來飲殘水。有野干王不飲地水。便內頭罐中飲水。飲水已戴罐高舉撲破。諸野干輩善意語之而不從受。如是非一破十四罐。時婆羅門伺見野干。便作木罐堅固難破。入易出難持著井邊。捉杖伺之。野干群集。王如前飲訖。撲地不能令破。時婆羅門捉杖來出。打殺野干。時野干王者。今提婆達多是。時群野干者。今諸比丘諫提婆達多者是（出僧祇律第八卷）。

The Buddha was dwelling in Rājagṛha. At that time, Devadatta wished to split the harmonious saṅgha; the monks admonished him three times, yet he would not stop. The Buddha said, "In the past, in the kingdom of Vārāṇasī, there was a brāhmaṇa who set up a public charity well in the wilderness to supply travelers. When the day was drawing to dusk, a pack of jackals came to drink the leftover water. The jackal king would not drink the water on the ground; he put his head into a pitcher to drink. Having drunk the water, he raised the pitcher high on his head and smashed it. The jackals spoke kindly to him, but he would not accept their advice. In this manner, not once [but many times], he broke fourteen pitchers. Then the brāhmaṇa watched and saw the jackal, so he made a wooden pitcher, sturdy and hard to break, easy to enter but hard to exit, placed it beside the well, and waited with a staff. The jackals gathered, and the king drank as before, but when he threw it to the ground, he could not break it. Then the brāhmaṇa came out holding his staff and beat the jackal to death. The jackal king at that time was this Devadatta today; the pack of jackals at that time were these monks who admonished Devadatta today." (From the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya, fascicle 8.)