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Tissa40

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Saddhā Tissa 王的一位侍從,國王以處死相威脅試探他,他堅決不肯為御膳而殺雉雞,以此證明操守,後轉而從獵人處取得已死的雉雞呈上。

An attendant of King Saddhā Tissa. The king, wishing to eat pheasants, asked Tissa to procure some, having first tested him by threatening to have him executed if he refused to kill fowl for the king’s table. Tissa, even when led to the executioner’s block, refused to kill the birds. The king was thus satisfied that Tissa would not kill pheasants for him. The next day, Tissa, seeing a fowler hawking some dead pheasants, obtained them for the king.⁵⁶

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