[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) › 79.17 # 法苑珠林 79.17 法苑珠林 79.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [79.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79.17) 又中阿含經云。爾時斯和提中。有王名蜱肆。極大豐樂資財無量。共斯和提梵志居士。北行至尸攝和林。遙見尊者鳩摩羅迦葉所。共相問訊。却坐一面。問迦葉曰。我如是見。如是說。無有後世。無眾生生。沙門鳩摩羅迦葉告曰。今此日月為是今世為後世耶。王曰。雖作是說。然無後世。無眾生生。迦葉種種譬喻方便為說。固執己見而不捨之。迦葉復告蜱肆。汝聽我說喻。若有慧者。聞喻則解其義。蜱肆。猶養猪人。彼行路時。見有熇糞甚多無主。便作是念。此糞可以養飽多猪。我寧可取自重而去。即取負去。彼於中道遇天大雨。糞釋流漫澆污其身。故負持去。終不棄捨。彼則自受無量之惡。亦為眾人之所憎惡。當知蜱肆亦復如是。若汝此見欲取悑癡終不捨者。汝便當受無量之惡。亦為眾人之所憎惡。猶如養猪人。蜱肆王言。沙門雖作是說。但我此見欲取恚悑癡終不能捨。尊者迦葉告曰。蜱肆。復聽我說最後譬喻。若汝知者善。若不知者我不復說法。蜱肆。猶如大猪為五百猪王行嶮難道。彼於中道遇見一虎。由見虎已便作是念。而語虎曰。若欲鬪者便可共鬪。若不爾者借我道過。彼虎聞已便語猪曰。聽汝共鬪不借汝道。猪復語曰。虎汝小住。待我披著祖父時鎧。還當共戰。彼虎聞已而作是念。彼非我敵。況祖父鎧耶。便語猪曰。隨汝所欲。猪即還至本廁處所。宛轉糞中塗身至眼已。便往虎所語曰。汝欲鬪者便可共鬪。若不爾者借我道過。虎見猪已復作是念。我常不食雜小蟲者。以惜牙故。況復當近此臭猪耶。虎念是已便語猪曰。我借汝道不與汝鬪。猪得過已。即還向虎。而說頌曰。 > The Madhyama-āgama also states: 'At that time in Setavyā, there was a king named Pāyāsi, who was immensely wealthy and had boundless assets. Together with the brahmins and householders of Setavyā, he went north to the Siṃsapā Forest. Seeing the Venerable Kumārakāśyapa from afar, they exchanged greetings and sat down to one side. He asked Kāśyapa, saying: "I hold this view and speak thus: 'There is no other world, and there are no beings who are reborn.'" The śramaṇa Kumārakāśyapa told him: "Are these sun and moon of this world or of another world?" The king said: "Although you speak thus, still there is no other world, and there are no beings who are reborn." Kāśyapa used various parables and skillful means to explain it to him, but \[Pāyāsi\] stubbornly clung to his own view and would not abandon it. Kāśyapa again told Pāyāsi: "Listen to a parable I will tell. If one is wise, upon hearing a parable he will understand its meaning. Pāyāsi, it is like a swineherd who, while walking along the road, saw a great deal of dry dung with no owner. He thought: 'This dung can feed many pigs to their fill. I would do well to take it and carry the load away.' So he took it and carried it on his back. Halfway along the path he encountered heavy rain from the sky; the dung dissolved and flowed all over, splashing and dirtying his body, yet he still carried it along and would not discard it. He thereby brought boundless filth upon himself and became loathed by all people. You should know, Pāyāsi, that you are just the same. If you grasp this view out of fear and folly and never abandon it, you will incur boundless evil upon yourself and become loathed by all people, just like the swineherd." King Pāyāsi said: "Although the śramaṇa speaks thus, this view of mine was grasped through desire, wrath, fear, and folly, and I can never abandon it." The Venerable Kāśyapa said: "Pāyāsi, listen further to my final parable. If you understand it, good; if you do not understand it, I will not preach the Dharma further. Pāyāsi, it is like a great boar who was the king of five hundred pigs traveling along a perilous path. Halfway along the path he encountered a tiger. Having seen the tiger, he thought to himself and said to the tiger: 'If you wish to fight, we can fight together; if not, yield the road to let me pass.' Having heard this, the tiger said to the pig: 'I grant that we fight; I will not yield the road to you.' The pig said again: 'Tiger, wait a little while; wait until I put on my grandfather's armour, then I will return to fight with you.' When the tiger heard this, he thought: 'He is no match for me, how much less his grandfather's armour!' So he said to the pig: 'Do as you wish.' The pig immediately returned to his original privy, rolled in the dung until his body was smeared up to his eyes, and then went to the tiger, saying: 'If you wish to fight, we can fight together; if not, yield the road to let me pass.' Seeing the pig, the tiger thought again: 'I habitually do not eat things mixed with small maggots, because I cherish my fangs; how much less should I approach this foul pig!' Having thought this, the tiger said to the pig: 'I yield the road to you; I will not fight with you.' Having passed by, the pig immediately turned back to the tiger and spoke a verse, saying: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 79.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79.16) - [Next: 79.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79.18) - [Up: 79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.79.17) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.71.84) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.79.17) · Pramāṇa