[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) › 78.51 # 法苑珠林 78.51 法苑珠林 78.51 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [78.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.51) 梁太山羊道生。為梁邵陵王中兵參軍。其兄海珍任漢州刺史。道生乞假省之。臨還兄於近路頓待道生。道生見縛一人於樹。就視乃故舊部曲也。見道生洟泣哀訴云。漢州欲賜殺。求之救濟。道生問何罪。答云。失意逃叛。道生曰。此最可忿。即下馬以珮刀剜其眼睛吞之。部曲呼天號地。須臾海珍來。又勸兄決斬。至座良久方覺眼在喉內。噎不肯下。索酒嚥之。頻傾數盃終不能去。轉覺脹塞。遂不成宴而別。在路數日死。當時見者。莫不以為有天道驗矣。 > Yang Daosheng of Taishan under the Liang served as Military Aide-de-camp to the Prince of Shaoling of the Liang. His elder brother Haizhen served as Regional Inspector of Hanzhou. Daosheng requested leave to visit him. When he was about to return, his elder brother waited for Daosheng at a post along the nearby road. Daosheng saw a man tied to a tree; approaching to look, he found that it was an old retainer of his. Seeing Daosheng, he wept and pleaded piteously, saying, 'The Regional Inspector of Hanzhou intends to have me put to death; I beg you to save me.' Daosheng asked what crime he had committed, and he replied, 'Disappointed \[in expectations\], I fled and deserted.' Daosheng said, 'This is most hateful!' He immediately dismounted, gouged out his eyes with his waist-knife, and swallowed them. The retainer cried out to Heaven and wept upon the ground. Shortly thereafter, Haizhen arrived, and Daosheng further urged his elder brother to behead him decisively. After arriving at the banquet and sitting for a long while, \[Daosheng\] only then felt the eyes inside his throat, stuck and unwilling to go down. He called for wine to swallow them, repeatedly pouring down several cups, but in the end could not dislodge them. He felt his throat swelling and choking more and more, so the banquet was abandoned and they parted. After several days on the road, he died. Among those who witnessed it at the time, there was none who did not consider it proof of the Way of Heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 78.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.50) - [Next: 78.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.52) - [Up: 78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.78.51) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.51) · Pramāṇa