[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 26.13 # 法苑珠林 26.13 法苑珠林 26.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.13) 第三鬼趣中。亦有生處得智知他心等。云何知然。昔有女人。為鬼所魅羸瘦將死。呪師問鬼。汝今何為惱此女人。鬼便報言。此女過去五百生中常害我命。我亦過去五百生中常害彼命。怨怨相報于今未息。彼若能捨我亦捨之。呪師因報彼女人曰。汝若惜命當捨怨心。女人報言。我已捨矣。鬼觀女意都不捨怨。恐命不全妄言已捨。遂斷其命捨之而去。 > Third, in the preta destiny, there is also cognition attained at birth that knows others' minds and so forth. How is this known to be so? In the past there was a woman possessed by a preta, emaciated and near death. A sorcerer asked the preta: 'Why are you now troubling this woman?' The preta then replied: 'In five hundred past lives this woman constantly took my life, and in five hundred past lives I also constantly took her life. Resentment has repaid resentment, and down to the present it has not ceased. If she can relinquish it, I too will relinquish it.' The sorcerer accordingly told that woman: 'If you spare your life, you should relinquish your resentful mind.' The woman replied: 'I have already relinquished it.' The preta examined the woman's mind and saw that she had not relinquished her resentment at all; fearing her life would not be preserved, she falsely claimed to have relinquished it. Thereupon the preta ended her life, left her, and departed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 26.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.12) - [Next: 26.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.14) - [Up: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.26.13) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.13) · Pramāṇa