經律異相 34.37

34.37

國王有女。名曰狗頭。有捕魚師。名述婆伽。隨道而行。遙見王女在高樓上。窓中見面想像染著。心不暫捨彌歷日月不能飲食。母問其故。以情答母。我見王女心不能忘。母抑喻言。汝是小人王女尊貴。不可得也。兒言。我心願樂不能暫忘。若不如意不能活也。母為子故入王宮中。常送肥魚肥肉。以遺王女而不取價。王女怪問。汝欲求何。母白王女願却左右當以情告。我唯有一子。敬慕王女情結成病命不云遠。願垂愍念賜其生命。王女言曰。汝月十五日於某甲天祠中住天像後。母還語子。汝願已得。告之如上。沐浴新衣在天像後住。王女至時白其父王。我有不吉須至天祠以求吉福。王言大善。即嚴車五百乘出至天祠。既到。勅諸從者。齊門而止。獨入天祠。天神思惟。此不應爾。王為施主不可令此小人毀辱王女。即[示*厭]此人令睡不覺。王女既入。見其睡重推之不寤。即以瓔珞直十萬兩金遺之而去。去後此人得覺。見有瓔珞。又問眾人知王女來。情願不遂。憂恨懊惱婬火內發自燒而死。以是證故知。女人之心不擇貴賤。唯欲是從。復次昔有國王女。逐旃陀羅共為不淨。又有仙人女。隨逐師子（出大智論第十四卷）。

A king had a daughter named Dog-Head (Śunīmukha). There was a fisherman named Śubhaka. Walking along the road, he caught sight of the princess from afar in a high tower. Seeing her face in the window, his imagination became enflamed with desire. His mind could not abandon her for a moment; as days and months passed, he was unable to eat or drink. His mother asked him the cause, and he answered his mother with the truth: "Having seen the king's daughter, my mind cannot forget her." His mother restrained him, explaining: "You are a lowly person, and the king's daughter is noble; she cannot be attained." The son said: "My heart's desire cannot forget her for a moment. If I cannot have my wish, I cannot live." For the sake of her son, the mother entered the royal palace and constantly brought fat fish and fat meat to give to the princess without taking payment. The princess wondered and asked: "What do you seek?" The mother addressed the princess: "I pray that you dismiss your attendants, and I will speak the truth. I have only one son, who reveres and longs for the princess; his feeling has formed an illness, and his life is not far from ending. I pray that you will show pity and grant him his life." The princess said: "On the fifteenth day of the month, have him stay behind the deity's statue in such-and-such a temple." The mother returned and told her son: "Your wish has been granted," telling him as above. Having bathed and put on new clothes, he stayed behind the deity's statue. When the time came, the princess addressed her father the king: "I have an inauspicious sign and must go to the temple to seek good fortune." The king said: "Very well." He then prepared five hundred chariots to go out to the temple. Having arrived, she ordered her attendants to stop at the gate and entered the temple alone. The god thought: "This should not be. The king is a donor; this lowly person must not be permitted to defile and disgrace the king's daughter." He then cast a spell on the man, causing him to fall into a deep sleep without waking. When the princess entered, she saw him sleeping heavily; she pushed him, but he did not awaken. She then left him a necklace worth one hundred thousand ounces of gold and departed. After she left, the man woke up. Seeing the necklace and asking the crowd, he learned that the princess had come. His desire unfulfilled, he was consumed with sorrow, resentment, and anguish; the fire of lust broke out within him, and he burned himself to death. From this evidence it is known that a woman's mind makes no distinction between noble and lowly, following only lust. Furthermore, in the past a king's daughter followed a caṇḍāla to engage in impurity together; there was also a sage's daughter who followed a lion. (Extracted from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, Fascicle 14)