[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) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 31.11 # 經律異相 31.11 經律異相 31.11 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [31.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31.11) 毘婆尸佛時。波羅㮈國王聰慧仁賢無有子息。事一山神經十二年祈求不懈。後第一夫人生育一男。性善不瞋人相具足。召諸群臣占其吉凶。即為立字名曰忍辱。及年長大好行布施。於諸眾生等以慈悲。國有六臣。姦偽諂佞枉橫無道人所厭患嫉姤太子。時王重病命在旦夕。忍辱太子告父諸臣曰。父王危篤今當何為。諸臣曰。妙藥難得命去不遠太子悲悶躄地。惡臣立計欲除太子。啟太子曰。王病須藥藥不可得。太子問曰。為是何物。答曰。是不瞋人。眼睛及髓。若得此藥王命必全。太子曰。我身似是。其人即辭其母。并集諸小國王。自宣令言。我今此身與大眾別。即喚旃陀羅碎骨出髓剜取兩目。臣即擣合奉上大王。王即服之病得除愈。問諸大臣。此藥殊妙除我苦患。諸臣答曰。今此藥者太子所辦。王曰。今何所在。答曰。在外身體傷壞命不去遠。王大悲哭。往到子所其命已終。其母懊惱投身屍上。我有宿罪應末體如塵。乃令我子喪失身命。以牛頭栴檀而闍維之。以其身骨起七寶塔（出大方便佛報恩經第三卷）。 > In the time of Vipaśyin Buddha, the king of Vārāṇasī was intelligent, benevolent, and virtuous, but had no children. He served a mountain deity for twelve years, praying unremittingly. Later, his foremost queen gave birth to a boy, whose nature was wholesome and without anger, and who was fully endowed with the marks of a noble person. He summoned all his ministers to divine his fortune, and thereupon bestowed on him the name Kṣānti. When he grew up, he took delight in practicing generosity, regarding all sentient beings with equal loving-kindness and compassion. In the kingdom, there were six ministers who were treacherous, deceitful, flattering, wicked, perverse, and unprincipled, loathed by the people; they were jealous of the crown prince. At that time, the king was gravely ill, his life hanging in the balance. Crown Prince Kṣānti addressed his father's ministers: "My royal father is critically ill; what should be done now?" The ministers said: "Wonderful medicine is difficult to obtain, and his life is not far from ending." The crown prince fell to the ground in grief and swooning. The wicked ministers devised a scheme wishing to eliminate the crown prince, and stated to the prince: "The king's illness requires medicine, but the medicine cannot be obtained." The crown prince asked: "What kind of thing is it?" They replied: "It is the eyes and marrow of a person without anger. If this medicine is obtained, the king's life will surely be preserved." The crown prince said: "My own person seems to be such." That person then took leave of his mother, and gathered the kings of the smaller states, proclaiming of himself: "Today, this body of mine bids farewell to the great assembly." He immediately called a caṇḍāla to break his bones to take out the marrow, and gouge out both of his eyes. The ministers then pounded and blended them, and presented them to the Great King. The king took it at once, and his illness was cured. He asked the ministers: "This medicine is exceptionally wonderful, curing my suffering and affliction." The ministers replied: "This medicine was provided by the crown prince." The king said: "Where is he now?" They replied: "Outside, his body is wounded and broken, and his life is not far from ending." The king wept bitterly. Going to his son's place, his life had already ended. His mother was deeply distressed and threw herself upon the corpse: "I have past sins and should have my body crushed to dust; yet it caused my son to lose his life!" They cremated him with goshīrṣa-candan-sandalwood, and erected a stūpa of seven treasures over his bones. (From the Great Skillful Means Sūtra on the Repayment of Kindness, Fascicle Three) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 31.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31.10) - [Next: 31.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31.12) - [Up: 31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.31.11) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.31.11) · Pramāṇa