諸經要集 8.47

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8.47

Furthermore, the Samantapāsādikā states: Maudgalyāyana expounded a jātaka sūtra to King Aśoka, saying: Great King, once in the past there was a partridge bird that was caged and bound on the ground, sorrowful and terrified. It cried out loudly, and its fellows gathered like clouds and were killed by men. The partridge asked a man of the Way: "Do I have guilt or not?" The man of the Way answered: "When you cried out, did you have a mind to kill?" The partridge bird said: "I cried out to summon my companions; I had no mind to kill." The man of the Way replied: "If you had no mind to kill, you have no guilty mind." And he spoke a verse:

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