Anitthigandha Kumāra的故事 The Story of Anitthigandha Kumāra
The Story of Anitthigandha Kumāra
Anitthigandha Kumāra的故事
The Dhammapada Commentary relates the story of Anitthigandha Kumāra in whom love developed for the kind of feminine beauty that he had imagined. This illustrates that if one can visualize an image in one』s dreams or thoughts, then desire, lust, and affection can develop. The story is as follows:
法句經的注釋書中講到Anitthigandha Kumāra的故事，他愛上了一種他想象出來的美女。這個故事說明了，如果某人能在他的想象或想法中形象化出一個圖象，那麼欲念、貪愛、和喜愛就能產生。故事是這樣的：
Anitthigandha Kumāra was born in Sāvatthi. He was a Brahmā in his previous existence. While in the Brahmā plane he was naturally free from the shackles of sensual desire and lust. When reborn as a human being, he had no interest in the opposite sex. When he came of age his parents urged him to marry, but he refused. As his parents were insistent he devised a plan by which he hoped to evade marriage. He enlisted the services of sculptors to make a gold image of a beautiful girl, and told his parents that he would marry anyone who looked like this gold image. The parents, being wealthy and capable, hired the services of brahmins to search the land for a bride whose beauty equalled that of the image that their son had conceptualised in the gold image.
Anitthigandha Kumāra出生在舍衛城。在過去世他是一位梵天。他在梵天界時，自然是不受欲念和貪愛的束縛。(所以)他再生為人類後，對異性沒有興趣。到一定的年紀，他的父母催促他結婚，但他拒絕了。因為父母的一再堅持，他便設計了一個計劃，想藉此逃避婚姻。他徵募雕塑家們雕塑了一位美貌女孩的黃金雕像，然後告訴他的父母，如果能找到長得像這個金像的女孩，就和她結婚。他把想象到的美貌概念化到了這個金像中。他父母，富有又能干，于是雇請了很多婆羅門，到處尋找這位美貌能和雕像匹敵的新娘。
When the brahmins reached Sāgala in the Madda kingdom they heard talk of a beautiful sixteen year old girl who was kept secluded in a seven-storeyed tower. Having traced her, they persuaded her parents to allow them to assess her beauty. When she was brought to meet them they found that she was even more beautiful than the statue.
婆羅門到達了Madda國的沙伽拉城(Sāgala)後，他們聽說到有位美麗的16歲女孩隱居在一座七層的塔中。追蹤到線索後，他們勸服她的父母，允許他們評估下她的美貌程度。女孩子被帶來和他們見面，他們發現女孩居然比雕像還要美麗。
They then negotiated with the parents for the girl to be given in marriage to Anitthigandha Kumāra. Gaining their consent, they informed the parents of the bridegroom. On hearing that the bride was even more beautiful than the figurine he had had sculpted, the bridegroom was anxious to have her brought as soon as possible. This is an instance of attachment that can arise purely out of one』s imagination.
然後，他們和女孩的父母商議，允許帶走女孩和Anitthigandha Kumāra結婚。得到同意後，他們通知了新郎的父母。聽到新娘甚至比雕像還要漂亮的消息後，新郎急切盼望能盡快把她帶回來。這就是一個執著純粹產生于人的想象的例子。
Sāgala and Sāvatthi are more than five hundred miles apart, and in those days transportation was primitive. Perhaps she was brought in a horse-drawn carriage. She became utterly exhausted during the journey, fell ill, and died.
沙伽拉城和舍衛城的距離超過五百英里，那個時代的交通很原始。大概，她是用馬車來運送的。在旅途中，她變得極度疲憊，患上疾病，最後死掉了。
When Anitthigandha Kumāra heard this news, he became gravely distressed for having missed the chance even to catch a glimpse of her. He could not eat or sleep. Knowing about this, the Buddha took pity on him, and so came to his house for alms. The parents respectfully offered alms to the Buddha and brought their son to meet him. Then the Buddha uttered the following verse:
Anitthigandha Kumāra聽到消息後，極度哀傷，因為連看新娘一眼的機會都錯過了。他無法吃飯也無法睡覺。知道這件事情後，佛陀憐憫他，于是便來到他家房前托缽。他的父母恭敬地給佛陀提供了布施，並把他帶到佛陀面前。那時，佛陀誦出了下面的偈句：
「Kāmato jāyatī soko, kāmato jāyatī bhayam; Kāmato vippamuttassa, natthi soko kuto bhayam.」 (Dhp v 215)
「From lust springs grief, from lust springs fear; One free from lust, has no grief, whence fear?」
「從愛欲生憂，從愛欲生怖；離愛欲無憂，何處有恐怖？」
Having heard this verse the young man attained stream-winning. Previously he had been disinterested in women, and thought he had set his parents an impossible task. When the impossible came true with the discovery of a maiden more beautiful than his wildest dreams, attachment arose to torment his innocent mind.
聽完這個偈句後，這位年輕的小夥子就證到了入流果。先前，他對女人沒有興趣，心想已經給父母設置了一個不可能的任務。但是不可能變成了現實，比他瘋狂的想象更加美貌的少女被發現了，執著生起，並折磨他無知的心。