父親與不肖的兒子們 Parijinna Brahmanaputta Vatthu

 Parijinna Brahmanaputta Vatthu 


Dhammapada Verse 324 

Dhanapalo nama kunjaro
katukabhedano dunnivarayo
baddho kabalam na bhunjati
sumarati nagavanassa kunjaro.

Verse 324: The elephant called Dhanapala, in severe must and uncontrollable, being in captivity, eats not a morsel, yearning for his native forest (i.e., longing to look after his parents).

The Story of an Old Brahmin

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (324) of this book, with reference to an old brahmin.

Once, there lived in Savatthi an old brahmin who had eight lakhs in cash. He had four sons; when each one of the sons got married, he gave one lakh to him. Thus, he gave away four lakhs. Later, his wife died. His sons came to him and looked after him very well; in fact, they were very loving and affectionate to him. In course of time, somehow they coaxed him to give them the remaining four lakhs. Thus, he was left practically penniless.

First, he went to stay with his eldest son. After a few days, the daughter-in-law said to him, "Did you give any extra hundred or thousand to your eldest son? Don't you know the way to the houses of your other sons?" Hearing this, the old brahmin got very angry and he left the eldest son's house for the house of his second son. The same remarks were made by the wife of his second son and the old man went to the house of his third son and finally to the house of his fourth and youngest son. The same thing happened in the houses of all his sons. Thus, the old man became helpless; then, taking a staff and a bowl he went to the Buddha for protection and advice.

At the monastery, the brahmin told the Buddha how his sons had treated him and asked for his help. Then the Buddha gave him some verses to memorize and instructed him to recite them wherever there was a large gathering of people. The gist of the verses is this: "My four foolish sons are like ogres. They call me 'father, father', but the words come only out of their mouths and not from their hearts. They are deceitful and scheming. Taking the advice of their wives they have driven me out of their houses. So, now I have got to be begging. Those sons of mine are of less service to me than this staff of mine." When the old brahmin recited these verses, many people in the crowd, hearing him, went wild with rage at his sons and some even threatened to kill them.

At this, the sons became frightened and knelt down at the feet of their father and asked for pardon. They also promised that starting from that day they would look after their father properly and would respect, love and honour him. Then, they took their father to their houses; they also warned their wives to look after their father well or else they would be beaten to death. Each of the sons gave a length of cloth and sent every day a food-tray. The brahmin became healthier than before and soon put on some weight. He realized that he had been showered with these benefits on account of the Buddha. So, he went to the Buddha and humbly requested him to accept two food-trays out of the four he was receiving every day from his sons. Then he instructed his sons to send two food-trays to the Buddha.

One day, the eldest son invited the Buddha to his house for alms-food. After the meal, the Buddha gave a discourse on the benefits to be gained by looking after one's parents. Then he related to them the story of the elephant called Dhanapala, who looked after his parents. Dhanapala when captured pined for the parents who were left in the forest.

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 324: The elephant called Dhanapala, in severe must and uncontrollable, being in captivity, eats not a morsel, yearning for his native forest (i. e., longing to look after his parents).

At the end of the discourse, the old brahmin as well as his four sons and their wives attained Sotapatti Fruition.

父親與不肖的兒子們


求偶時期的財護(註)，難以馴服，但被人繫縛後，不吃任何食物，只惦記著森林。(譯者註)


　　舍衛城中有位年老的婆羅門非常富有，他有四個兒子，每個兒子結婚時，他就分給那位兒子應得的一份財產。四個兒子全部結婚後，他又把剩下的財產分成兩半，其中一半再分給四個兒子。後來，他的夫人去世了，他的兒子們就回來妥善照顧他。他們十分關心，敬愛他，但卻慢慢勸服他，把剩下來那一半財產也全部分給他們。從此這老人分文不值。

　　老人首先與長子同住。過了幾天，長媳婦就說話了：「長子分到的財產比較多嗎？難道你不知道去其他兒子家的路嗎！」聽完話後，老人十分難過，就離開長子的家，前往次子的家。不久，二媳婦也講類似的話，老人只好移往第三個兒子的家去。結果，情形也是一樣。老人最後去找最小的兒子，但與在前面三個兒子家的遭遇一樣。老人從此流落街頭，拿著一缽一杖，前去找佛陀，尋求護慰和忠告。

　　到達精舍後，他向佛陀敘說他的兒子如何虧待他。佛陀就教他數首偈語，請他在婆羅門大型聚會的場合上朗誦，這些偈語的主要內容如下：

　　「我四個愚癡的兒子個個像惡魔，他們雖稱呼我『父親！父親！』但這只是嘴上親熱而已，內心裡全不是這樣想。他們全是騙子，工於心計。全都聽老婆的話，把我趕出他們的家，現在我只有乞討為生了！這四個兒子比我手上的枴扙更無用！」

　　城裡所有婆羅門聚會的日子到了，老人知道他的四個兒子也會出席，就前往參加大會，並且大聲朗誦佛陀教他的偈語。當時的習俗認為虧待父母，不奉養父母的兒女都應該接受處罰。因此大家聽完老人的偈語後，就憤怒地找出這四個不肖子孫來，威脅著要處罰他們。

　　這時候，四個兒子明白自己的錯誤，就跪在父親的腳下，請求父親的原諒。他們發誓從此以後會照顧、愛護和禮敬他，他們也警告妻子要妥善照顧父親。從此以後這四個兒子供給父親足夠的食物和衣服。老人因此恢復健康，他就前往精舍，請佛陀每天接受他兒子供給他的四盤食物中的兩盤，做為他的供養。

　　有一天，老人的長子邀請佛陀前去他家應供。供養後，佛陀說，人若妥善照顧父母，可以得到功德。佛陀也講大象財護照顧父母的故事。大象財護被捕後，天天思念森林裡的父母。


註：「財護」為象名。

譯者註：佛陀說此法句告誡世人應該孝順父母。

（可參考故事「疏於照顧母親的子女 」）


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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23. Nāgavagga

Chapter Twenty Three    The Elephant

第二十三章 象

ཉེར་གསུམ་པ་གླང་པོའི་ལེའུ།


324. Dhanapālo nāma kuñjaro,

kaṭukabhedano dunnivārayo;

Baddho kabaḷaṃ na bhuñjati, 

sumarati nāgavanassa kuñjaro.


324. Musty during rut, the tusker named Dhanapalaka is uncontrollable. Held in captivity, the tusker does not touch a morsel, but only longingly calls to mind the elephant forest.


324.求偶時期的財護（象名），是很難被制服的；牠被捕後，不願進食，只想返回樹林。


324.求偶时期的财护（象名），是很难被制服的；牠被捕后，不愿进食，只想返回树林。


༣༢༤༽ འདོད་པས་མྱོས་པའི་འདུལ་དཀའ་བ། །ནོར་སྐྱོང་ཞེས་བྱའི་གླང་པོ་ཆེ། །གཟུང་ན་ཁམ་གང་མི་ཟ་བར། །གླང་པོའི་ནགས་ཚལ་ལྷག་པར་དྲན། །


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