[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) › 5.40 # 經律異相 5.40 經律異相 5.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5.40) 善男子。我入王舍大城。次第乞食。提婆達多。教阿闍世王。即放護財狂醉之象。欲令害我及諸弟子。我於爾時即入慈定。舒手示之。即於五指出五師子。是象見已其心怖畏。失大小便。舉身投地。敬禮我足。善男子。我時手指實無師子。乃是修慈悲善根力故。令彼調伏（出大涅槃經第十四卷）。 > “Good sons, when I entered the great city of Rājagṛha to beg for alms in sequential order, Devadatta instructed King Ajātaśatru to release the mad, drunken elephant Dhanapāla, intending to harm me and my disciples. At that time, I immediately entered the concentration of loving-kindness and extended my hand to show it to him, whereupon five lions emerged from my five fingers. Seeing them, the elephant was terrified in mind; losing control of its feces and urine, it threw its entire body to the ground and reverently bowed to my feet. Good sons, at that time there were in truth no lions upon my fingers; it was merely through the power of cultivating the wholesome root of loving-kindness and compassion that I brought it to submission (derived from the fourteenth fascicle of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra).” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5.39) - [Next: 5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5.41) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.5.40) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.21.38) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.5.40) · Pramāṇa