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  • 本生故事,講一位婆羅門轉生為金鵝、屢屢贈家人金羽,其妻貪心一次拔光所有羽毛,羽毛因此變回凡羽;此事為貪得無厭的偷羅難陀比丘尼而說。

  • A birth story of a brahmin reborn as a golden goose who repeatedly gave his family golden feathers, until his wife’s greed led her to pluck them all at once, turning them ordinary, told about a nun’s excessive greed.

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