熊：你伤害了我我一笑而过？｜龟兹菱格故事汇

龟兹菱格故事汇第21期

克孜尔第17窟熊救樵夫蒙难

局部：樵夫双手断掉

熊救樵夫蒙难

古时候，有个樵夫入山砍柴。途中，遇上暴雨，樵夫便进入一山洞躲避。刚一入口，他发现一熊安卧于洞内，惊恐万分，正欲逃离，听见熊说：“别怕，我不会加害于你。”熊把他抱进了洞内，并拿出美果供他享用。七天后，暴雨才停了下来。樵夫回家前跪谢熊恩，熊说：“只要你别泄露我的住处，就算报恩了。”樵夫向熊保证，绝对保守秘密。

樵夫返回途中，碰见一个猎师，问他：“你多日未归，大家都以为你被暴雨漂走它处，或被野兽吞食，如此大雨，为何还能安全归来？”樵夫把他的遭遇和被熊救护之事全部说了出来。猎师听后，惊喜万分，忙问熊的住处，樵夫不肯说。猎师就以利相诱，樵夫遂起贪婪之心，将猎师引到了熊的住处。猎师在山洞口点燃烈火，用烟将熊熏死，然后进入山洞，剥取熊皮，并将熊肉分作三份，两份分给樵夫，一份留给自己。当樵夫伸手接肉时，奇异的事情发生了：樵夫的双手立即掉了下来，这就是他忘恩负义的报应。

选自《根本说一切毗奈耶破僧事》卷十五

A Bear Dies to Save a Woodcutter

Once upon a time, there was a woodcutter who wanted to go into a mountain to cut firewood. On the way, he was caught in a rainstorm, so he took shelter in a cave. Upon entering the cave, he was frightened as he saw a bear lying inside the cave. As he was about to flee, he heard the bear saying to him, “Don’t be afraid. I will not hurt you.” Then the bear carried him inside the cave and let him share its fruit. The rainstorm kept falling for seven days. The woodcutter knelt down before the bear by way of thanks. But the bear said, “You will repay my kindness as long as you don’t give away where I live.” The woodcutter promised that he would keep the secret.

On his way back home, the woodcutter met a hunter, who asked him: “You have been away for many days and we all think that you have been carried away by the rainstorm, or have been devoured by a beast. How come you can return safe and sound with so big a rain?” The woodcutter told him all about what he had met and how the bear managed to save him. The hunter was so pleased to hear his story and asked him where the bear lived, but the woodcutter declined to give him any information about it. So the hunter lured him with the promise of some profit. The woodcutter was so greedy that he guided the hunter to the place where the bear lived. Then the hunter made a fire at the entrance of the cave, so the bear was suffocated to death. Afterwards, he went inside the cave to peel off the skin of the bear and divided the flesh of the bear into three parts. He gave two parts to the woodcutter and kept one for himself. But something strange happened: when the woodcutter reached out his hands for the flesh of the bear, both his hands fell off his body. This was what he got for his ungratefulness.

Excerpts from Mulasarvastivada Vinaya

熊：你伤害了我我一笑而过？｜龟兹菱格故事汇