法苑珠林 65.57

65.57

又雜阿含經云。爾時世尊告諸比丘。過去世時有一鳥。名曰羅婆。為鷹所捉飛騰虛空。於空鳴喚言。我不自覺忽遭此難。我坐捨離父母境界。而游他處故遭此難。如何今日為他所囚。不得自在。鷹語羅婆汝當何處自有境界。而得自在。羅婆答言。我於田耕壠中自有境界。足免諸難。是為我家父母境界。鷹於羅婆起憍慢言。放汝令去還耕壠中。能得脫不。於是羅婆得脫鷹爪。還到耕壠大塊之下。安住止處。然復於塊上欲與鷹鬪。鷹則大怒。彼是小鳥敢與我鬪。瞋恚極盛。峻飛直搏。於是羅婆入於塊下。鷹鳥飛勢臆衝堅塊。碎身即死。時羅婆鳥深伏塊下。仰說偈言。

Furthermore, the *Saṃyuktāgama* says: At that time, the World-Honoured One addressed the bhikṣus: 'In a past age there was a bird named Lava. It was seized by a hawk and soared into the sky. Calling out in the sky, it said: "Without realising it, I suddenly met with this disaster! Because I abandoned the territory of my parents and roamed elsewhere, I met with this disaster! How is it that today I am imprisoned by another, having no self-determination?" The hawk said to the lava: "Where would you have your own territory to have self-determination?" The lava replied: "Amidst the furrows of ploughed fields I have my own territory, sufficient to escape all disasters; that is the territory of my family and parents." The hawk, feeling arrogant towards the lava, said: "I will let you go back into the ploughed furrows—will you be able to escape?" Thereupon the lava escaped from the hawk's talons, returned beneath a large clod in the ploughed furrows, and settled safely in its resting place. Yet it stood on top of the clod and wished to fight with the hawk. The hawk was enraged: "That little bird dares to fight with me!" With intense anger, it dived down steeply to strike. Thereupon the lava went under the clod; the momentum of the hawk's flight caused its chest to crash into the hard clod, shattering its body and killing it instantly. At that time, the lava bird, crouching deep under the clod, looked up and spoke a verse:'