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  • 講述苦行者 Dīpāyana 的本生故事:他因摯友 Maṇḍabya 無辜遭刺身受血汙而得「黑」(Kaṇha)之名,後與悔悟的父母一同以真實語誓願治癒一名被蛇咬瀕死的男孩。

  • A Jātaka about the ascetic Dīpāyana, who acquired the epithet Kaṇha (black) from bloodstains after his friend Maṇḍabya was wrongly impaled, and who later healed a boy dying of snakebite by an Act of Truth alongside the boy’s own repentant parents.

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