[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) › notes.14 # འཕགས་པ་གྲང་ཁྱར་གྱས་འཚ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.14 The City Beggar Woman notes.14 - **Language:** English ### [notes.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes.14) 14. Tib. des ’bru mar sran gre’u dang sbyar ba nyos nas zhag bzhi kha ’tshos te nyam chung bar gyur to. Skilling notes that sran gre’u is similar to sran khre’u, which is attested in Negi’s dictionary as a translation of māṣaka and can mean “a bean,” or “a very small amount.” Skilling also notes that kha ’tshos is attested as a translation of anāhāratāṃ pratipannaḥ, “she went without food.” This has been preferred over a possible reading of the Tibetan that she bought some “oil mixed with beans” (’bru mar sran gre’u dang sbyar ba nyos nas) and subsisting on that for four days became weak. In the Vinaya and the Divyāvadāna, she begs for a little oil. In The Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish the narrative is a little more elaborate: she finds a coin and goes to an oil merchant who tells her that such a coin would only buy a useless amount of oil. However, when she tells him she plans to use the oil to make an offering to the Buddha, he is moved by pity and he gives her some more. She then goes directly to the monastery to light the lamp. - [Previous: notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes.13) - [Next: notes.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes.15) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.narrative.nagaravalambika*bo~en-84000.notes.14) · Pramāṇa