[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) › 77.38 # 法苑珠林 77.38 法苑珠林 77.38 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [77.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.38) 又百緣經云。佛在王舍城迦蘭陀竹林。爾時目連在一樹下見一餓鬼。身如焦柱。腹如太山。咽如細鍼髮如錐刀。纏刺其身。諸支節間皆悉火然。渴乏欲死脣口乾焦。欲趣河泉變為涸竭。假令天降甘雨。墮其身上。皆變為火。目連即問業緣。餓鬼答言。我渴乏不能答。汝自問佛。目連即詣佛所具述前事。向佛廣說。宿造何業受是苦惱。爾時世尊告目連言。汝今諦聽。吾當為汝分別解說。此賢劫中。波羅柰國。有佛出世。號曰迦葉。有一沙門涉路而行。極患熱渴。時有女人。名曰惡見。井傍汲水。往從乞水。女報之曰。使汝渴死。我終不與。令我水減。不可持去。于時沙門既不得水服道而去。時彼女人遂復慳貪。有來乞者終不施與。其後命終墮餓鬼中。以是業緣受如是苦。佛告目連。欲知彼時女人不施水者。今此餓鬼是。佛說是惡見緣時。諸比丘等捨慳貪業。得四沙門果者。或有發無上菩提心者。聞佛所說歡喜奉行。 > Furthermore, the Avadānaśataka (Baiyuan jing) states: The Buddha was in the Kalandaka Bamboo Grove at Rājagṛha. At that time, Maudgalyāyana saw a hungry ghost beneath a tree. Its body was like a charred pillar, its belly like a great mountain, its throat like a fine needle, and its hair like awls and knives, wrapping around and piercing its body. All its limbs and joints were blazing with fire. It was dying of thirst, its lips and mouth parched and burnt. Whenever it tried to go toward rivers or springs, they turned into dry wastelands. Even if heaven showered sweet rain, upon falling onto its body it all turned into fire. Maudgalyāyana asked about its karmic causes. The hungry ghost replied: 'I am so exhausted by thirst that I cannot answer. Ask the Buddha yourself.' Maudgalyāyana immediately went to the Buddha's presence and recounted the previous incident in full. He explained it in detail to the Buddha, \[asking\]: 'What karma did it create in the past to suffer this agony?' At that time, the World-Honoured One said to Maudgalyāyana: 'Listen carefully now; I shall analyze and explain it for you. In this Bhadrakalpa, in the country of Vārāṇasī, a Buddha appeared in the world named Kāśyapa. There was a śramaṇa traveling along the road who suffered severely from heat and thirst. At that time, there was a woman named Durgandhā (Evildoer / Bad View) drawing water beside a well. He went to beg water from her. The woman answered him: "May you die of thirst! I will never give you any, causing my water to decrease; you must not take it away." Thereupon, the śramaṇa, having obtained no water, resumed his journey on the road. That woman was persistently stingy and greedy; whenever any beggar came, she would never give anything. Afterwards, when her life ended, she fell among the hungry ghosts. Due to these karmic causes, she suffers such torment.' The Buddha said to Maudgalyāyana: 'Do you wish to know who the woman was who would not give water at that time? She was this very hungry ghost.' When the Buddha expounded the causes and conditions of this Durgandhā, the bhikṣus abandoned the karma of stinginess and greed; some attained the four fruits of the śramaṇa, while others gave rise to the aspiration for unsurpassed bodhi. Hearing what the Buddha had taught, they rejoiced and practiced accordingly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 77.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.37) - [Next: 77.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.39) - [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.77.38) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.15.44) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.77.38) · Pramāṇa