[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Narrative and karma sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative) › [Nagarāvalambikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika) › [འཕགས་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo) › [The City Beggar Woman](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000) › intro.4 # འཕགས་པ་གྲང་ཁྱར་གྱས་འཚ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.4 The City Beggar Woman intro.4 - **Language:** English ### [intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro.4) The framing of the story is also diverse across the different iterations. While the Vinaya and Divyāvadāna versions present it as the last of several episodes in a series, in The Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish it is followed by a past life story.⁷ The patterns of convergence and divergence between the different iterations, in these and other ways,⁸ are therefore somewhat complicated. - [Previous: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Next: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.intro.4) · Pramāṇa