[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) › 91.77 # 法苑珠林 91.77 法苑珠林 91.77 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [91.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91.77) 晉時羊珊。字懿彭祖。晉世廬陵太守。為人剛克麁暴。恃國姻親縱恣尤甚。睚𥈐之嫌輒加刑殺。征西大將軍庾亮檻送。具以狀聞。右司奏。珊殺郡將吏及民簡良等二百九十人。徒謫一百餘人。應棄市。依八議請宥。顯宗詔曰。此事古今所未有。此而可忍孰不可忍。何八議之有。可獄所賜命。珊兄子賁。先尚南郡公主。自表解婚。詔不許。琅邪孝王妃山氏珊之甥也。苦以為請。於是司徒王遵。啟珊罪不可容恕宜極重法。山太妃憂感動疾。陛下罔極之恩。宜蒙生全之宥。於是下詔曰。山太妃唯此一甥發言摧鯁。乃至吐血。情慮深重。朕丁荼毒。受太妃撫育之恩。同於慈親。若不堪難忍之病。以致頓弊。朕亦何顏以寄。今便原珊生命。以慰太妃渭陽之恩。於是除名為民。少時疾病。常見簡良等曰。枉豈可受。今來相取。自申黃泉。經宿而死。 > During the Jin dynasty, Yang Shan, courtesy name Yipengzu, was the Grand Administrator of Luling. He was domineering, crude, and violent, and relying on his imperial marital ties, he was exceptionally indulgent and unruly, executing people over minor glares or grievances. Yu Liang, Senior General Who Conquers the West, sent him under escort in a cage and reported the full circumstances to the throne. The Right Office memorialized that Shan had killed two hundred and ninety officers, clerks, and commoners of the commandery, including Jian Liang, and had banished and exiled more than one hundred people; by law he should be publicly executed, but based on the Eight Deliberations, they requested clemency. Emperor Xianzong decreed: 'This matter is unprecedented from antiquity to the present. If this can be tolerated, what cannot be tolerated? What Eight Deliberations can apply here? He may be granted death in prison.' Shan's nephew Ben, who had earlier married Princess Nanjun, submitted a memorial requesting the dissolution of the marriage, but the emperor refused. Consort Shan, wife of Prince Xiao of Langye, was Shan's niece, and she pleaded bitterly on his behalf. Thereupon Minister over the Masses Wang Zun memorialized that Shan's crimes could not be pardoned and deserved the utmost penalty of the law, but Consort Shan's sorrow and emotional turmoil had made her ill, and by the boundless grace of His Majesty, he ought to receive the clemency of having his life preserved. An imperial decree was then issued: 'Consort Shan has only this single uncle; her words were choked with sorrow, even to the point of vomiting blood. Her emotional distress is profound. Having experienced the bitter loss of parents early on, We received the consort's upbringing, which is no different from that of a loving mother. If she cannot bear this intolerable illness and collapses completely, how could We hold up Our head? We now spare Shan's life to console the maternal kinship of the consort.' Thereupon he was stripped of his rank and made a commoner. A short time later, he fell ill and constantly saw Jian Liang and others saying: 'How could such injustice be endured? We have now come to take you to plead our case together in the Yellow Springs.' He died overnight. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 91.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91.76) - [Next: 91.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91.78) - [Up: 91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.91.77) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.91.77) · Pramāṇa