[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 22.25 # 法苑珠林 22.25 法苑珠林 22.25 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [22.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22.25) 如雜寶藏經云。昔有一婦女。端正殊妙。於外道法中出家修道。時人問言。顏貌如是應當在俗。何故出家。女人答言。如我今日非不端正。但以小來厭惡婬欲。今故出家我在家時。以端正故早蒙處分。早生男兒。兒遂長大端正無比。轉覺羸損如似病者。我即問兒病之由狀。兒不肯道。為問不止。兒不獲已而語母言。我正不道恐命不全。止欲具述無顏之甚。即語母言。我欲得母以私情欲。以不得故是以病耳。母即語言。自古已來何有此事。復自念言。我若不從兒或能死。今寧違理以存兒命。即便喚兒欲從其意。兒將上床地即礔裂。我子即時生身陷入。我即驚怖以手挽兒捉得兒髮。而我兒髮今日猶故在我懷中。感切是事是故出家。 > As the \*Saṃyuktaratnapiṭaka-sūtra\* states, in the past there was a woman who was extraordinarily beautiful and refined. She left home to practice the way within a non-Buddhist tradition. People of that time asked her, “With an appearance like this, you ought to remain in secular life. Why have you left home?” The woman answered, “It is not that I am not beautiful today, but from childhood I have loathed sensual desire. This is why I have now left home. When I was living as a householder, because of my beauty I was arranged in marriage early and bore a son at a young age. My son grew up to be incomparably handsome. Gradually he grew emaciated and weakened, appearing as if sick. I asked my son about the cause and nature of his illness, but he was unwilling to speak. Because I questioned him incessantly, having no other choice, the son told his mother, ‘If I do not speak, I fear my life will not be preserved; yet if I merely wish to describe it in full, it is utterly shameless.’ He then told his mother, ‘I desire to obtain you, Mother, for my private lust. It is because I cannot obtain \[you\] that I have fallen ill.’ His mother then said to him, ‘Since ancient times, how could there ever be such a thing?’ Yet she thought to herself, ‘If I do not comply, my son may die. Now I would rather violate moral principle to save my son's life.’ Thereupon she summoned her son, intending to comply with his desire. As the son was about to mount the bed, the earth suddenly split open, and my son sank into it in his living body. I was terrified, and pulling at my son with my hands, I caught hold of his hair. Even today my son's hair is still kept in my bosom. Deeply moved and pierced by this event, I therefore left home.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 22.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22.24) - [Next: 22.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22.26) - [Up: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.22.25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.22.25) · Pramāṇa