[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) › 64.48 # 法苑珠林 64.48 法苑珠林 64.48 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [64.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64.48) 又雜寶藏經云。昔有王子兄弟二人被驅出國。到曠路中糧食都盡。弟即殺婦分肉與其兄嫂。嫂便食之。兄得此肉藏棄不敢食之。自割脚肉夫婦共食。弟婦肉盡欲得殺嫂。兄言莫殺。以先藏肉。還與弟食。既過曠路到神仙住處。採取華果以自供食。弟後病亡。唯兄獨在。是時王子見一被刖無手足人。心生慈悲。採取華果。活彼刖人。王子為人少於欲事。採華果去。其婦在後。與刖人通。以有私情深疾其夫。於一日中逐夫採華。至河岸邊而語夫言。取樹頭華果。夫語婦言。下有深河。或當墮落。婦言。以索繫腰。我當挽索。小近岸邊。婦挨其夫墮著河中。以慈善力隨水漂而去不沒死。於河下流有國王崩。彼國相師推求國中。誰應為王。遙見水上有黃雲蓋。相師占已。黃雲蓋下必有神人。遣人水中而往迎接。立以為王。王之舊婦擔彼刖人。展轉乞索到王子國。國人皆稱有一好婦擔一刖婿恭承孝順。乃聞於王。王聞是已即遣人喚來到殿前。王問婦言。此刖人者實爾夫不。答言實是。王時語言。識我不耶。答言不識。王言。汝識某甲不。諦向王看。然後慚愧。王故慈心遣人養活。佛言。欲知王者。即我身是。爾時婦者。旃遮婆羅門女帶木杅謗我者是。爾時刖手足者。今提婆達多是（故知善惡目驗有徵）。 > Furthermore, the \*Saṃyuktaratnapiṭaka-sūtra\* says: In the past, there were two brothers, princes, who were banished from their country. Arriving on a vast and desolate road, their provisions were completely exhausted. The younger brother killed his own wife and shared her flesh with his elder brother and sister-in-law. The sister-in-law ate it, but the elder brother, upon receiving this meat, concealed it and dared not eat it. He cut the flesh of his own legs for him and his wife to eat together. When the younger brother’s wife’s flesh was finished, he wanted to kill his sister-in-law. The elder brother said, ‘Do not kill her,’ and gave the meat he had hidden earlier back to the younger brother to eat. After crossing the vast and desolate road, they arrived at an abode of rṣis, and gathered flowers and fruits to sustain themselves. Later, the younger brother fell ill and died, leaving only the elder brother. At that time, the prince saw a man whose hands and feet had been amputated. Conception of compassion arose in his heart; he gathered flowers and fruits to keep that amputated man alive. The prince, by nature, had few sensual desires. When he went to gather flowers and fruits, his wife remained behind and engaged in illicit relations with the amputated man. Due to this secret affair, she deeply resented her husband. One day, she followed her husband to gather flowers, reached the bank of a river, and said to her husband, ‘Fetch the flowers and fruits at the top of the tree.’ The husband said to the wife, ‘Below is a deep river; I might fall into it.’ The wife said, ‘Tie a rope around your waist, and I will pull the rope.’ When he approached close to the edge of the bank, the wife pushed her husband, causing him to fall into the river. By the power of his benevolence, he drifted along with the water without drowning to death. Downstream on the river, the king of that country had passed away. The physiognomists of that country were searching throughout the kingdom for who should become king. From afar, they saw a yellow cloud-canopy over the water. After divining it, the physiognomists said, ‘Beneath the yellow cloud-canopy there must be an extraordinary person.’ They sent men into the water to welcome him, and enthroned him as king. The king’s former wife, carrying that amputated man on her back, wandered around begging until she reached the prince’s kingdom. The people of the kingdom all praised her, saying that there was a virtuous wife who carried an amputated husband and served him with respect and filial devotion. This was eventually reported to the king. Having heard this, the king immediately sent someone to summon them before the palace. The king asked the woman, ‘Is this amputated person truly your husband?’ She replied, ‘He truly is.’ The king then said to her, ‘Do you recognize me?’ She answered, ‘I do not recognize you.’ The king said, ‘Do you recognize so-and-so?’ Looking closely at the king, she was then filled with shame. The king, still with a mind of compassion, sent people to support and sustain them. The Buddha said, ‘If you wish to know who that king was, it was myself. The woman at that time was the Brahmin girl Ciñcā who strapped a wooden bowl to slander me. The person whose hands and feet were amputated was none other than Devadatta (thus one knows that good and evil are visibly verified by evidence).’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 64.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64.47) - [Next: 64.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64.49) - [Up: 64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.64.48) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.64.48) · Pramāṇa