[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) › 77.14 # 法苑珠林 77.14 法苑珠林 77.14 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [77.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.14) 是時盲母養兒已大。年八九歲堪能行來。與杖一枚食器一具。而告子曰。汝自乞活不須住此。吾亦無目。復當乞求。以濟餘命。此盲小兒家家乞求。遂後漸至栴檀香家。在門外立。唱盲兒乞。時守門人。瞋恚捉手。擲著深坑。傷折左臂。復打頭破。所乞得食盡棄在地。有人臨見甚憐愍傷。往語盲母。盲母聞已匍匐拄杖。到盲兒所抱著膝上。而語兒言。汝有何愆遭此苦厄。子報母曰。我向者至栴檀香家門外而乞。便遇惡人打擲如是。佛時知已告阿難言。禍災禍災。難陀長者。命終與彼旃陀羅家盲婦作子。生無兩目。昔所居業。豪富無量。象馬七珍不可稱計。而今復得親用不耶。然由慳貪受此盲報。從此命終入阿鼻獄。佛於過中與比丘眾入國城。人民圍繞往到栴檀香門盲小兒所。時栴檀香聞佛在外。出門禮拜在一面立。佛知眾集。復見栴檀。廣為眾說慳貪嫉妬受罪無量。如說惠施受福無窮。欲使離有趣無為道。爾時世尊欲與栴檀拔地獄苦。告小兒曰。汝是難陀長者非耶。小兒報曰。實是難陀。如是至三。大眾聞此愕然而言。難陀長者乃受此形。時栴檀香聞見此事。悲泣墮淚不能自止。禮佛求救願拔罪根。即請佛僧明日舍食。佛明日食竟為說妙法。時栴檀香得須陀洹果。佛告阿難。若人積財不自衣食。復不布施。愚中之愚。是故智者應當行施。求離生死。莫生慳悋受無邊苦。 > At that time, the blind mother raised the child until he was grown, eight or nine years of age, and capable of walking about. She gave him a staff and a food vessel, and told the child: 'Beg to sustain your own life; you need not stay here. I too have no eyes, and must also beg to preserve the remainder of my life.' This blind little boy begged from house to house, and eventually arrived at the home of Candanagandha. Standing outside the gate, he cried out that a blind boy was begging. At that time, the gatekeeper angrily grabbed his hand and threw him into a deep ditch, breaking his left arm and also smashing his head open. All the food he had begged for was completely scattered on the ground. Someone who saw it felt great pity and grief, and went to tell the blind mother. Having heard, the blind mother crawled, leaning on her staff, to where the blind boy was, gathered him onto her lap, and said to the child: 'What fault did you commit to encounter such bitter affliction?' The child replied to his mother, saying: 'Just now, I went outside the gate of Candanagandha's house to beg, and then encountered an evil man who struck and threw me down like this.' The Buddha, knowing this at that time, told Ānanda, 'Disaster, disaster! The elder Nanda, having died, became the child of that blind woman in a caṇḍāla household, born without both eyes. In his former life his estate and possessions were boundless in extreme wealth, with elephants, horses, and the seven treasures beyond count. But can he now personally use them? It is because of stinginess and greed that he received this retribution of blindness. Dying from this life, he will enter the Avīci Hell.' Around midday, the Buddha, together with the assembly of bhikṣus, entered the city, surrounded by the people, and went to the blind boy at Candanagandha's gate. At that time, Candanagandha heard that the Buddha was outside, came out of the gate, prostrated himself, and stood to one side. The Buddha, knowing that the crowd had gathered and also seeing Candanagandha, broadly explained to the assembly that stinginess, greed, and jealousy bring about boundless punishment, just as practicing generous giving brings about inexhaustible blessings, wishing to cause them to leave the realms of existence and advance toward the unconditioned path. At that time, the World-Honoured One, wishing to pluck out the suffering of hell for Candanagandha, addressed the little boy, saying, 'Are you the elder Nanda or not?' The boy replied, 'I am truly Nanda.' This happened up to three times. Hearing this, the great assembly was astonished and said, 'Did the elder Nanda indeed receive such a form?' At that time, Candanagandha, hearing and seeing this matter, wept and shed tears, unable to stop himself. He bowed to the Buddha, begging for deliverance, wishing to pluck out the roots of sin. He then invited the Buddha and the Saṃgha to eat at his residence the next day. The next day, after the meal was over, the Buddha explained the wondrous Dharma for him. At that time, Candanagandha attained the fruit of a srotāpanna. The Buddha told Ānanda, 'If a person amasses wealth and neither clothes nor feeds himself, nor practices dāna, he is the most foolish of the foolish. Therefore, the wise should practice giving, seeking to escape birth and death, and not give rise to stinginess and suffer boundless torment.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 77.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.13) - [Next: 77.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.15) - [Up: 77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.77.14) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [出曜經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-zhu-fonian.4.58) — Classical Chinese - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.15.42) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.14) · Pramāṇa