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Erakapatta
Person一位龍王,前世為比丘時曾無意間折斷一片葉子,因此懺悔轉生為龍身,其女以謎歌尋訪佛世,終由青年婆羅門優多羅(Uttara)對答如流而如願。
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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