法苑珠林 10.14

10.14

爾時世尊成佛已後。尊者優陀夷而白佛言。云何如來。將身一切無價瓔珞。脫持施與耶輸陀羅。不能令彼心喜。佛告優陀夷言。至心諦聽。我當說之。優陀夷言。願為我說。爾時佛告優陀夷言。我念往昔無量世時。迦尸羅國內波羅奈城。時有一王。信邪倒見而行治化。彼王有子。造少罪愆。父王驅擯令出國界。漸漸行至一天寺中。共婦相隨居停而住。食糧罄盡。王子游獵殺捕諸蟲以用活命。所獵之處見一鼉蟲。趁而殺之。即剝其皮。內水中煮。其欲向熟汁便竭盡。是時王子語其婦言。肉未好熟。卿更取水。彼王子婦即便取水婦去已後。王子飢急不能忍耐。即食鼉肉。一切悉盡不留片殘。時王子婦取水迴還。問其夫言。此中鼉肉今在何處。王子報言。鼉忽然還活。今已走去。其婦不信何忽如是。鼉肉已熟云何能走。婦心不信而意思念。必是我夫飢急食盡。誑我言走。情壞瞋恨心常不歡。於後數年其父命終。時諸大臣即迎王子灌頂為主。既作王已。所得眾寶皆悉與妃。其妃不悅。王語妃言。何故顏不悅。其夫人即說偈。以報王言。

At that time, after the World-Honoured One had attained Buddhahood, the Venerable Udāyin said to the Buddha: "Why did the Tathāgata take all the priceless neck-ornaments from his body and bestow them on Yaśodharā without being able to make her heart rejoice?" The Buddha told Udāyin: "Listen attentively with all your heart, and I shall explain it." Udāyin said: "Please explain it to me." At that time the Buddha told Udāyin: "I remember that in the past, countless ages ago, in the kingdom of Kāśi in the city of Vārāṇasī, there was a king who governed by adhering to false views. That king had a son who committed a minor offense. His father the king drove him out of the realm. Traveling gradually, he arrived at a shrine of the gods, where he stayed with his wife. Their provisions were exhausted. The prince went hunting, killing and capturing various creatures to sustain their lives. At his hunting place, he saw a monitor lizard. He pursued and killed it, stripped its skin, placed it in water, and boiled it. When it was nearly done, the broth boiled away completely. At that time the prince said to his wife: 'The meat is not yet fully cooked. Go fetch some more water.' His wife then went to fetch water. After she left, the prince was famished, unable to endure it. He immediately ate the lizard meat, finishing it entirely, leaving not even a scrap. When the prince's wife returned with the water, she asked her husband: 'Where is the lizard meat from here?' The prince replied: 'The lizard suddenly came back to life and has already run away.' His wife did not believe that such a sudden thing could happen: 'The lizard meat was already cooked, how could it run away?' Her heart did not believe it, and she thought: 'My husband was surely starving and ate it all, lying to me that it ran away.' Harried by resentment, her heart was constantly unhappy. Several years later his father died. The ministers then welcomed the prince and anointed him as sovereign. Having become king, he gave all the various treasures he obtained to his consort, but the consort was not pleased. The king said to the consort: 'Why are you unhappy in your expression?' His wife then spoke a verse to reply to the king: