[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) › 57.7 # 法苑珠林 57.7 法苑珠林 57.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.7) 如法句喻經云。昔佛在世時有弗迦沙王。比丘入羅閱城分衛。於城門中有新產牸牛所觝殺。牛主怖懼賣牛轉與他人。其人牽牛欲飲水。牛從後復觝殺其主。其主家人瞋恚取牛殺之。於市賣肉。有田舍人買取牛頭。貫擔持歸去舍。田邊坐樹下息。以牛頭掛樹枝。須臾繩斷。牛頭落下正墮人上。牛角刺人即時命終。一日之中凡殺三人。瓶沙王聞之。怪其如此。即與群臣往詣佛所。具問其意。佛告王曰。往昔有賈客三人。到他國內興生。寄住孤獨老母舍。應與雇舍直。見老母孤獨欺不欲與。伺老母不在默去不與。母歸不見客。即問比居。皆云已去。老母瞋恚尋後逐及。疲頓索直。三客逆罵我前已與。云何復索。同聲共抵不肯與直。老母單弱不能奈何。懊惱守祝。我今窮厄何忍欺抵。願我後世所生之處。若當相值要當殺汝。正使得道終不相置。佛語瓶沙王。爾時老母者今此牸牛是也。三賈客者弗迦沙等三人為牛所觝殺者是也。於是世尊即說偈言。 > As the Sūtra of the Parables of the Dharmapada states: In the past, when the Buddha was in the world, there was King Pukkusāti. When he entered Rājagṛha as a monk on his almsround, at the city gate a newly calved cow gored him to death. The cow's owner was terrified, and sold the cow to someone else. As that person was leading the cow to drink water, the cow again gored its master to death from behind. The master's family members were enraged; they took the cow, killed it, and sold its meat in the market. A rustic bought the cow's head, hung it on a carrying pole, and carried it home. Beside a field, he sat beneath a tree to rest and hung the cow's head from a tree branch. After a short while, the rope broke, and the cow's head fell directly upon the man; the cow's horn pierced him, and he died immediately. In a single day, it had killed three people in all. King Bimbisāra heard of this and thought it strange. Together with his courtiers, he went to the Buddha's place and asked in full about the matter. The Buddha told the king: "In the past, there were three merchants who went to another country to engage in trade. They lodged in the house of a lonely old woman, where they owed her the rental fee for the lodging. Seeing that the old woman was alone, they cheated her and did not wish to pay. Waiting until the old woman was away, they quietly left without paying. When the old woman returned and did not see the guests, she asked the neighbours, who all said they had left. The old woman was enraged; she pursued them and caught up with them, asking for the fee in exhaustion. The three guests reviled her: 'We already gave it to you before! Why are you asking again?' Unanimously, they resisted and refused to give the fee. The old woman was frail and solitary, and could do nothing. Grievously distressed, she swore an oath: 'I am now in poverty and distress; how can you bear to cheat and resist me? May it be that in whatever place I am reborn in future lives, if I meet you, I will certainly kill you! Even if you attain the Way, I will never let you go.'" The Buddha said to King Bimbisāra: "The old woman of that time was this cow. The three merchants were the three men, Pukkusāti and the others, who were gored to death by the cow." Thereupon, the World-Honoured One spoke this gāthā: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 57.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.6) - [Next: 57.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.8) - [Up: 57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.57.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.7) · Pramāṇa