[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) › 54.57 # 法苑珠林 54.57 法苑珠林 54.57 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [54.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54.57) 又善見律云。時有六群比丘。自身在下。請法人在高。而為說法。以慢法故佛呵責之。佛語比丘。往昔波羅柰國有一居士。名曰車波加。其婦懷妊思菴羅果。語其婿言。我思菴羅果。君為我覓。其夫答言。此非果時。我云何得。婦語夫言。君若不得我必當死。夫聞婦語心自念言。唯王園中有非時果。我當往偷。作是念已。即夜入王園。取果未得。明相已出。不得出園。於是樹上藏住。時王與婆羅門入園欲食菴婆羅果。婆羅門在下。王在高座。婆羅門為王說法。偷果人樹上自念言。我偷果事應合死。因王聽婆羅門說法故我今得脫。我今無法王亦無法。婆羅門亦無法。何以故。我為婦故而偷王果。王由憍慢故師在下座。自在高座而聽說法。婆羅門為貪利養故。自在下坐為王說法。我今三人相與無法。我今得脫。即便下樹往至王前。而說偈言。 > Furthermore, the \*Samantapāsādikā\* says: At that time there was a group of six bhikṣus who sat in a low place themselves while the person requesting the Dharma was on a high seat, and expounded the Dharma for them. Because they showed contempt for the Dharma, the Buddha rebuked them. The Buddha said to the bhikṣus: 'In the past, in the country of Vārāṇasī, there was a householder named Chavaka. His wife was pregnant and craved a mango. She said to her husband, "I crave a mango; please find one for me, my lord." Her husband replied, "This is not the season for the fruit; how can I obtain it?" The wife said to the husband, "If you, my lord, do not obtain it, I must surely die." The husband, hearing the wife's words, thought to himself: "Only in the king's orchard are there out-of-season fruits; I must go and steal one." Having thought this, he entered the king's orchard by night. Before he could pick the fruit, the signs of dawn appeared, and he could not get out of the orchard. Thereupon he hid in a tree. At that time, the king and a brāhmaṇa entered the orchard wishing to eat mangoes. The brāhmaṇa was below, and the king was on a high seat; the brāhmaṇa expounded the Dharma for the king. The fruit-thief in the tree thought to himself: "My stealing of fruit ought to deserve death. Because the king is listening to the brāhmaṇa expounding the Dharma, I am now spared. I now have no Dharma; the king also has no Dharma; the brāhmaṇa also has no Dharma. Why? Because for the sake of my wife I stole the king's fruit; the king, out of arrogance, has his master on a low seat while he sits on a high seat to listen to the teaching of the Dharma; the brāhmaṇa, out of greed for material gain, sits on a low seat himself to expound the Dharma for the king. We three together are without Dharma. Now I am spared." He immediately climbed down the tree, went before the king, and spoke a verse:' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 54.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54.56) - [Next: 54.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54.58) - [Up: 54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.54.57) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [善見律毘婆沙](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.sastra.samantapasadika*zh-senggabatuoluo.16.28) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.54.57) · Pramāṇa