[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) › 74.20 # 法苑珠林 74.20 法苑珠林 74.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [74.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74.20) 又增一阿含經云。佛告比丘。若人作賊偷盜他物。為主所執。縛送付王。治其盜罪。王即遣人閉著牢獄。或截手足。或刖耳鼻。或剝其皮。或抽其筋。或取倒懸。或時鋸解。或以火炙。或時湯煮。或以生革縛絡其頭。或復洋銅而灌其身。或以長橛而刺其臗。或使惡象而以蹈殺。或開其腹抽腸紵草。或時反縛打惡聲鼓。將詣市所標下斬首。或復節節支解其形。或以刀破。或時箭射。如是種種苦切殺之。以此偷盜惡業因緣。命終之後生地獄中。猛火燒身融銅灌口。鑊湯鑪炭刀山劍樹。煻灰糞屎磨磨碓擣。受如是等種種諸苦。酸楚毒痛不可稱計。百千萬歲脫出無期。地獄罪畢生畜生中。象馬牛羊駝驢犬等。經百千歲以償他力。畜生罪畢生餓鬼中。飢渴苦惱不可具言。初不聞有漿水之名。經百千歲受如是苦。惡道罪畢出生人中。若生人中得二種報。一者貧窮。衣不蓋形。食不充口。二者常為王賊火水及以惡賊劫。又正法念經云。何名盜。若人思惟。欲令種種穀麥我獨成就令世間人五穀不登。常作如是不善思惟。復於異時。眾生薄福。田苗不收。如是惡人。見世飢饉。心生歡喜。如我所念。於市糶賣。曲心巧偽。量諸穀麥。誑惑於人。究竟成業。若心思惟。名為思業。若作誑時。名為誑業。作誑業已。名究竟業。 > Furthermore, the Ekottarika-āgama says: The Buddha addressed the monks: 'If a person acts as a thief and steals another's property, and is seized by the owner, bound, and delivered to the king to be punished for his crime of theft, the king then sends men to lock him in prison, or cut off his hands and feet, or amputate his ears and nose, or flay his skin, or pull out his sinews, or hang him upside down, or saw him apart, or roast him with fire, or boil him in hot water, or bind and wrap his head with raw leather, or pour molten copper over his body, or pierce his loins with a long stake, or have a vicious elephant trample him to death, or rip open his belly, pull out his entrails, and stuff it with grass, or bind his hands behind his back, beat the ominous drum, lead him to the execution ground in the marketplace, and behead him beneath the post, or dismember his form joint by joint, or hack him with knives, or shoot him with arrows—thus killing him with various kinds of harsh torment. > 'By the cause and condition of this evil karma of theft, after his life ends he is born in hell: blazing fire burns his body, molten copper is poured into his mouth, with caldrons of boiling water, hearths of coals, mountains of knives, trees of swords, glowing ashes, excrement and feces, being ground in mills, and pounded in mortars. He undergoes various such sufferings, his bitter pains and venomous agonies impossible to calculate, with no date of escape for hundreds of thousands of myriads of years. > 'When his hell offense is exhausted, he is born among animals: elephants, horses, cattle, sheep, camels, donkeys, dogs, and the like, for hundreds of thousands of years repaying the labor of others. > 'When his animal offense is exhausted, he is born among hungry ghosts: his hunger, thirst, and distress impossible to describe fully, never hearing even the name of water or broth, enduring such suffering for hundreds of thousands of years. > 'When his offense in the evil destinies is exhausted, he is born among humans. If born among humans, he obtains two kinds of retributions: first, poverty, with clothes that do not cover his body and food that does not fill his mouth; second, constantly being plundered by kings, thieves, fire, water, and wicked bandits.' > Furthermore, the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna-sūtra says: 'What is called theft? If a person reflects: "May various kinds of grain and wheat mature for me alone, and cause the people of the world to suffer crop failure," constantly harboring such unwholesome thoughts. Furthermore, at another time, when sentient beings have meager merit and the crops in the fields yield no harvest, such an evil person, seeing the world in famine, gives rise to joy in his mind, thinking: "It is just as I wished!" He sells them in the market, using a crooked mind and deceitful trickery to measure the grain and wheat, deceiving people, and consummating the karma. If the mind reflects, it is called mental karma; when committing the deception, it is called deceptive karma; having committed the deceptive karma, it is called consummated karma.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 74.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74.19) - [Next: 74.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74.21) - [Up: 74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.74.20) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.14.19) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.74.20) · Pramāṇa