[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) › 44.22 # 經律異相 44.22 經律異相 44.22 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [44.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44.22) 昔有一人在田耕蒔。日已垂中。家餉未至。道人失路至其田所。從乞中食。耕人曰諾。小願須留。家餉遲晚。道人曰。食既不至仍欲漱口。耕人解其衣帶一訶梨勒果以與。道人即受而食。又有一錢以嚫道人。道人曰。若心可感無以相報。欲授五戒。君能受不。答曰。弟子在俗五戒難全。但受不殺。耕人命盡生國王家。皇后導從到流水邊。歌舞作樂抱兒臨水。失手墮水魚即吞之。在腹七日不飢不渴。隨流下逝遂千餘里。入下國界人捕得魚於市貨易。時下國主遣人市魚。將還城內用刀治魚。兒在腹中唱曰。徐徐勿傷我也。即破魚腸見一小兒。端正無雙舉國歡喜。上國主聞之曰。此必我兒。遣信索之。下國主答。魚腹中得天所賜。我不肯與之。二國共諍遂徹大國。大王判云。若上國不生此兒墮水下國何由而得。若下國不得此兒。上國何處求覓。此兩有緣。汝二國。中間可作宮殿共安此兒。號曰兩國太子。即從此旨在於其中。依太子儀法。佛語弟子。昔日耕人。一果一錢布施道人。便得兩國太子（出雜譬喻經）。 > In the past, there was a man plowing and sowing in a field. The sun was drawing close to noon, but the meal sent from his home had not yet arrived. A man of the Way had lost his path and came to the field, begging from him for a midday meal. The plowman said, "Very well, please wait a short while; the meal from home is late." The man of the Way said, "Since the food has not arrived, I wish only to rinse my mouth." The plowman untied from his belt a harītakī fruit to give him. The man of the Way accepted and ate it. \[The plowman\] also gave a single coin as a gift (dakṣiṇā) to the man of the Way. The man of the Way said, "If your mind is so sincere, I have nothing with which to repay you. I wish to transmit the five precepts; are you able to receive them?" He replied, "As a disciple in secular life, the five precepts are difficult to keep whole; I can only take the precept against killing." When the plowman's life ended, he was born into the family of a king. The queen and her retinue went to the edge of flowing waters. Singing, dancing, and playing music, she held the child beside the water. Her hand slipped and he fell into the water, whereupon a fish swallowed him. Inside its belly for seven days, he felt neither hunger nor thirst. Drifting with the current downstream for over a thousand leagues (li), \[the fish\] entered the borders of a downstream kingdom, where people caught it and sold it in the marketplace. At that time, the ruler of the downstream kingdom sent someone to buy fish, and it was brought back into the city to be dressed with a knife. From within the belly, the child called out, "Slowly! Do not hurt me!" They immediately cut open the fish's intestines and saw a little boy, handsome beyond compare; the whole kingdom rejoiced. When the ruler of the upstream kingdom heard of it, he said, "This must be my child," and sent an envoy to demand him. The downstream ruler replied, "Found within a fish's belly, he was bestowed by Heaven; I am unwilling to give him up." The two kingdoms disputed with each other, until the matter reached a great kingdom. The great king adjudicated, saying, "If the upstream kingdom had not borne this child who fell into the water, how could the downstream kingdom have obtained him? And if the downstream kingdom had not caught this child, where could the upstream kingdom have sought him? Both have a karmic bond with him. You two kingdoms may build a palace midway between you to house this child together, entitling him Crown Prince of Two Kingdoms." Accordingly, following this decree, he resided in between, according to the protocol for a crown prince. The Buddha told his disciples, "The plowman of past days, by giving a single fruit and a single coin to a man of the Way, thereby became the crown prince of two kingdoms." (From the Samyuktāvadāna-sūtra.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 44.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44.21) - [Next: 44.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44.23) - [Up: 44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.44.22) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.44.22) · Pramāṇa