[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) › 46.40 # 法苑珠林 46.40 法苑珠林 46.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [46.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.40) 漢下邳周式。甞至東海道逢一吏。持一卷書求寄載行十餘里謂式曰。吾暫有所過。留書寄君船中。慎勿發之。去後式盜發視書。皆諸死人錄。下條有式名。須臾吏還。式首視書。吏怒曰。故以相告而勿視之。式叩頭流血。良久感卿遠相載。此書不可除卿。今日已去還家三年。勿出門可得度也。勿道見吾書。式還不出已二年。餘家皆怪之。隣人卒亡。父怒使往吊之。式不得止。適出門便見此吏。吏曰。吾令汝三年勿出。而今出門。知復奈何。吾求不見。連相為得鞭杖。今已見汝無可奈何。後三日日中當相取也。式還洟泣具道如此。父故不信。母晝夜與相守洟泣。至三日日中時見來取便死（右此一驗出搜神記）。 > Zhou Shi of Xiapi under the Han once traveled to the eastern coast road and met a clerk holding a scroll of a book, who asked for a ride. After traveling more than ten li, he said to Shi, 'I have to visit somewhere for a short while. I will leave the book in your boat; take care not to open it.' After he left, Shi furtively opened and looked at the book. It was entirely a register of dead people, and among the entries below was Shi's name. In a short while the clerk returned, and Shi confessed to having looked at the book. The clerk said angrily, 'I explicitly warned you not to look at it!' Shi kowtowed until he bled. After a long time, \[the clerk said\], 'I am grateful that you carried me from afar. Your name cannot be deleted from this book. Leave today and return home; for three years do not go outside your gate, and you may escape it. Do not say that you saw my book.' Shi returned and did not go out for two years, and the rest of the household all wondered at it. A neighbor suddenly died, and his father angrily made him go offer condolences. Shi could not refuse. Just as he stepped out of the gate, he saw this clerk. The clerk said, 'I told you not to go out for three years, but now you have come out of the gate. What can be done? I tried not to see you, and for your sake I was repeatedly flogged. Now that I have seen you, nothing can be done. In three days, at midday, I shall come to take you.' Shi returned weeping and recounted the whole matter. His father still did not believe it, but his mother watched over him day and night, weeping together with him. When midday on the third day arrived, he saw \[the clerk\] come to take him, and he died. (This one proof above is from the Soushen ji.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 46.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.39) - [Next: 46.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.41) - [Up: 46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.46.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.40) · Pramāṇa