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Some doomed to die for the sake of skin or flesh, some for their horns or hair or bones or wings,
1127. Others torn or killed in mutual conflict, friend or relative before, contending thus;

22. ‘Others also, through various actions arising from the spasmodic violence of their minds, are born miserable in the wombs of various beasts.

māṃsatvagbāladantārthaṃ vairād api madād api |
hanyante kṛpaṇaṃ¹ yatra bandhūnāṃ paśyatām api || 14.22 ||

1. EBC: kṛpaṇā.

23. ‘There the poor wretches are killed even in the sight of their kindred, for the sake of their flesh, their skin, their hair, or their teeth, or through hatred or for mere pleasure.

aśaknuvanto ’py avaśāḥ kṣuttarṣaśramapīḍitāḥ |
goaśvabhūtāś ca vāhyante pratodakṣatamūrtayaḥ || 14.23 ||

(26)負重而¹ 抱軛鞭策鉤錐刺
(27)傷體膿血流飢渇莫能解

1. 抱＝挽＜三＞

(some) burthened with loads or dragging heavy weights, (others) pierced and urged on by pricking goads,
1128. Blood flowing down their tortured forms, parched and hungry--no relief afforded;

24. ‘Even though powerless and helpless, oppressed by hunger, thirst, and fatigue, they are driven along as oxen and horses, their bodies wounded with goads.

vāhyante gajabhūtāś ca balīyāṃso ’pi durbalaiḥ |
aṅkuśakliṣṭamūrdhānas tāḍitāḥ pādapārṣṇibhiḥ || 14.24 ||

25. ‘They are driven along, when born as elephants, by weaker creatures than themselves for all their strength,--their heads tormented by the hook and their bodies kicked by foot and heel.

satsv apy anyeṣu duḥkheṣu duḥkhaṃ yatra viśeṣataḥ |
parasparavirodhāc ca parādhīnatayaiva ca || 14.25 ||

26. ‘And with all these other miseries there is an especial misery arising from mutual enmity and from subjection to a master.

khasthāḥ khasthair hi bādhyante jalasthā jalacāribhiḥ |
sthalasthāḥ sthalasaṃsthaiś ca prāpya caivetaretaraiḥ² || 14.26 ||

2. EBC: tu prāpyante cetaretaraiḥ.

(28)展轉相殘殺無有自在力
(29)虚空水陸中逃死亦無處

then, turning round, (he saw) one with the other struggling, possessed of no independent strength;
1129. Flying through air or sunk in deep water, yet no place as a refuge left from death.

27. ‘Air-dwellers are oppressed by air-dwellers, the denizens of water by the denizens of water, those that dwell on dry land are made to suffer by the dwellers on dry land in mutual hostility.

upapannās tathā ceme mātsaryākrāntacetasaḥ |
pitṛloke nirāloke kṛpaṇaṃ bhuñjate phalam || 14.27 ||

(27b1)慳貪増上者生於餓鬼趣
(2)巨身如大山咽孔猶針² 鼻
(3)飢渇火毒然還自燒其身

2. 鼻＝筒＜宋＞, 筩＜元＞＜明＞

He saw, moreover, those, misers and covetous, born now as hungry ghosts,
1130. Vast bodies like the towering mountain, with mouths as small as any needle-tube, hungry and thirsty, nought but fire and poison’d flame to enwrap their burning forms within.

28. ‘And others there are who, when born again, with their minds filled with envy, reap the miserable fruit of their actions in a world of the Pitris destitute of all light;

sūcīchidropamamukhāḥ parvatopamakukṣayaḥ |
kṣuttarṣajanitair duḥkhaiḥ pīḍyante duḥkhabhāginaḥ || 14.28 ||

(4)求者慳不與或遮人惠施
(5)生彼餓鬼中求食不能得
(6)不淨人所棄欲食而變失

1131. Covetous, they would not give to those who sought, or duped the man who gave in charity, now born among the famished ghosts, they seek for food, but cannot find withal.
1132. The refuse of the unclean man they fain would eat,

29. ‘Having mouths as small as the eye of a needle and bellies as big as a mountain, these miserable wretches are tortured with the pains of hunger and thirst.
30. ‘If a man only knew that such was the consequence of selfishness, he would always give to others even pieces of his own body like Sibi.

āśayā samatikrāntā³ dhāryamāṇāḥ svakarmabhiḥ |
labhante na hy amī bhoktuṃ praviddhāny aśucīny api ⁴ || 14.29 ||

3. EBC: samabhikrāntā. 4. This verse is placed after 14.30 in EBC.

(7)若人聞慳貪苦報如是者
(8)割肉以施人如彼³ 尸毘王

3. Śibi.

but this is changed and lost (before it can be eaten); oh! if a man believes that covetousness is thus repaid, as in their case,
1133. Would he not give his very flesh in charity even as Sivi râga did!

31. ‘Rushing up filled with hope but held back by their former deeds, they try in vain to eat anything large, however impure.

puruṣo yadi jānīta mātsaryasyedṛśaṃ phalam |
sarvathā śibivad⁵ dadyāc charīrāvayavān api || 14.30 ||

5. EBC: śivivad.

(9)或生人⁴ 道中身處於行厠
(10)動轉極大苦出胎生恐怖
(11)軟身觸外物猶如刀劍截

4. 道中＝中道＜三＞

Then, once more (he saw), those reborn as men, with bodies like some foul sewer,
1134. Ever moving ’midst the direst sufferings, born from the womb to fear and trembling, with body tender, touching anything its feelings painful, as if cut with knives;

1. See verse 30.

ime ’nye narakaprakhye⁶ garbhasaṃjñe ’śucihrade |
upapannā manuṣyeṣu duḥkham archanti jantavaḥ || 14.31 ||

6. EBC: narakaṃ prāpya.

(12)⁵ 任彼宿業分無時不有死
(13)勤苦而求生得生長受苦

5. 任＝住＜三＞

1135. Whilst born in this condition, no moment free from chance of death, labour, and sorrow, yet seeking birth again, and being born again, enduring pain.

32. ‘Others, having found a hell in an impure lake called the womb, are born amongst men and there suffer anguish.

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