[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) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 16.60 # 諸經要集 16.60 諸經要集 16.60 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16.60) 又百喻經云。昔外國節慶之日。一切婦女。盡持優鉢羅華以為鬘飾。有一貧人。其婦語言。爾若能得優鉢羅華來與我。為爾作妻。若不能得我捨爾去。其夫先來。常善能作鴛鴦之鳴。即入王池作鴛鴦鳴。偷優鉢羅華。時守池者。而作是問。池中者誰。而此貧人失口。答言我是鴛鴦。守者捉得將詣王所。而於中道。復更和聲。作鴛鴦鳴。守池者言。爾先不作今作何益。世間愚人亦復如是。終身殘害作眾惡業。不習心行。使令調善。臨命終時。方言今我欲得修善。獄卒將去付閻羅王。雖欲修善亦無所及。如彼愚人。欲到王所作鴛鴦鳴。 > Furthermore, the Sūtra of One Hundred Parables says: In the past, on a festival day in a foreign land, all the women held utpala flowers to use as garland ornaments. There was a poor man whose wife said to him: 'If you can obtain an utpala flower and give it to me, I will be your wife; if you cannot obtain one, I shall abandon you and leave.' Her husband had always been skilled at imitating the cry of a mandarin duck. He promptly entered the king's pond, making the cry of a mandarin duck, and stole an utpala flower. At that time, the pond keeper asked: 'Who is in the pond?' But this poor man slipped up and answered: 'I am a mandarin duck.' The keeper captured him and took him to the king. On the way, he once again harmonized his voice and made the cry of a mandarin duck. The pond keeper said: 'You did not make it before; what is the use of making it now?' Foolish people of the world are also like this. Throughout their lives they cause harm and commit numerous evil deeds, failing to train their minds and deeds so as to make them disciplined and wholesome. Only when their life is about to end do they say: 'Now I wish to cultivate the wholesome.' When the wardens of hell take them away to present them to King Yama, although they wish to cultivate the wholesome, it is of no avail—just like that foolish man, who wished to make the cry of a mandarin duck only when he was about to arrive before the king. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16.59) - [Next: 16.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16.61) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.16.60) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [百喻經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.upama.upamasataka*zh-gunavrddhi.3.15) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.16.60) · Pramāṇa