[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) › 6.85 # 法苑珠林 6.85 法苑珠林 6.85 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6.85) 夫論畜生。癡報所感種類既多。條緒非一。稟茲穢質。生此惡塗。頓罷慧明。唯多貪恚。所以蜂蠆蘊毒。蛇蝮懷瞋。鴿雀嗜婬豺狼騁暴。或復被毛戴角。抱翠銜珠。嘴巨鋒芒。爪甲長利。或復聽物往還。受人驅策。犬勤夜吠。雞競曉鳴。牛弊田農。馬勞行陣。肌肉於是消耗。皮膚為之零落。或可潛藏草澤遂被罝羅。竄伏陂池橫遭罾網。如是畜生悉皆懺悔。乃至鵾鵬大質。螻蟻細軀。偃鼠飲河。鷦鷯巢木。水生陸產羽族毛群。錦質紫鱗丹鰓頳尾。如此之流。悉皆代為懺悔。當令信根清淨。捨此惡形。慧命莊嚴。復茲天報。無復驅馳之苦。永離屠割之悲。縱意逍遙。隨心放蕩。飲啄自在。嗚嘯無為。出彼樊籠。免乎繫縛也。 > Now when discussing animals, they are brought about by the retribution of delusion; their varieties are already numerous, and their lineages are not single. Endowed with this defiled substance, they are born into this evil destiny; they abruptly lose wise brilliance and possess only abundant greed and anger. For this reason, bees and scorpions harbor venom, vipers and adders cherish wrath, doves and sparrows crave lust, and jackals and wolves unleash ferocity. Or again, they are clad in fur and wear horns, embrace kingfisher feathers and hold pearls in their mouths; their beaks are gigantic and sharp, and their talons and nails are long and keen. Or again, they heed others' comings and goings and suffer humans' driving and whipping: dogs toil at barking by night, roosters vie in crowing at dawn, oxen are worn out by tillage and farming, and horses are exhausted by battle lines. Flesh and sinews are thereby wasted away, and skin and hide peel and fall from them. Or they may lurk and hide in marshes of grass only to be trapped in snares and nets; or flee and conceal themselves in ponds and pools only to run foul of casting nets and seines. For all such animals, repentance is made on their behalf. Even down to the vast forms of giant fishes and rukh-birds, the tiny bodies of crickets and ants, the mole drinking from the river, and the wren nesting in the woods; water-born, land-produced, feathered clans, and furred herds; brocade textures, purple scales, cinnabar gills, and crimson tails—for all such types, we repent on their behalf. May their roots of faith become pure and clean, may they cast off these evil forms, may they adorn their life of wisdom, and may they return to this divine retribution; may they no longer have the suffering of being driven and spurred, may they forever leave the sorrow of slaughter and butchering, wandering at ease as they wish, roaming untrammeled according to their hearts, eating and drinking at liberty, chirping and whistling in unconditioned ease, emerging from those cages and escaping bondage! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6.84) - [Next: 6.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6.86) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.6.85) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.6.85) · Pramāṇa