法苑珠林 21.74

21.74

又智度論云。女人相者。若得敬待則令夫心高。若敬待情捨則令夫心怖。女人如是常以煩惱憂怖與人。云何可近親好。如說國王有女。名曰拘牟頭。有捕魚師。名術波伽。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。母喻兒言。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。常送肥魚鳥肉以遺王女。而不取價。王女怪而問之。欲求何願。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。汝去至月十五日。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。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。以是證知。女人之心。不擇貴賤。唯欲是從。

Furthermore, the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra* says: "As for the traits of a woman, if she receives respectful treatment, she makes her husband's mind arrogant; if she renounces respectful treatment, she makes her husband's mind fearful. Women are like this: they constantly give affliction, worry, and fear to others. How could one be intimate with or fond of them? As it is told, a king had a daughter named Kumuda. There was a fisherman named Śubhaka. Traveling along the road, he saw the princess from afar in a tall pavilion. Seeing her face in the window, he formed an imagined attachment to her and his mind could not let go for even a moment. As the days and months passed, he could not eat or drink. His mother asked him the cause, and he answered her truthfully: 'I saw the princess, and my mind cannot forget her.' The mother reasoned with her son, saying: 'You are a base person; the princess is noble and exalted—she cannot be obtained.' The son said: 'My heart yearns for her and cannot forget her for a moment. If I do not get my wish, I cannot go on living.' For the sake of her son, the mother entered the royal palace, constantly delivering fat fish and fowl meat to present to the princess without taking payment. Wondering at this, the princess asked her, 'What wish do you seek?' The mother said to the princess: 'May you dismiss your attendants, and I will speak the truth. I have an only son who reveres and longs for you, Princess; his passion has knotted into an illness and his life will not last long. May you condescend to have pity on him and grant him his life.' The princess said: 'Go, and on the fifteenth day of the month, stay behind the statue of the deity in such-and-such shrine.' The mother returned and told her son: 'Your wish has been granted,' informing him as above. Having bathed and put on new clothes, he stayed behind the statue of the deity. When the time came, the princess said to her royal father: 'I have encountered an inauspicious sign and must go to the shrine to pray for auspicious blessings.' The king said: 'Very good.' He immediately prepared five hundred carriages to go out to the shrine. Having arrived, she ordered all her attendants to halt at the gate, and entered the shrine alone. The deity thought: 'This should not be. The king is a benefactor; this base person must not be allowed to defile and disgrace the princess.' He immediately suppressed this man, making him sleep heavily without waking. When the princess entered, she saw that his sleep was profound, and shook him, but he did not awaken. She then left a necklace worth a hundred thousand liang of gold for him and departed. Later, when the man awoke, he saw the necklace and asked the people around, learning that the princess had come. His wish having failed, he felt such sorrow, resentment, and anguish that the fire of lust erupted within him, and he burned himself to death. From this evidence one knows that the minds of women do not choose between noble and base: they only follow their desires."