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Person一位龙王,前世为比丘时曾无意间折断一片叶子,因此忏悔转生为龙身,其女以谜歌寻访佛世,终由青年婆罗门优多罗(Uttara)对答如流而如愿。
A Nāga king who, having been a monk who inadvertently broke a leaf in a past life, was reborn in remorse as a serpent, and whose daughter’s riddle-song, sung in hope of finding a Buddha’s era, was finally answered by the young brahmin Uttara.
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