[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) › 46.44 # 法苑珠林 46.44 法苑珠林 46.44 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [46.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.44) 漢時諸暨縣吏吳詳者。憚役委頓。將投竄深山。行至一溪。日欲暮見年少女子綵衣甚端正。女云。我一身獨居。又無鄉里。唯有一孤嫗。相去十餘步耳。詳聞甚悅。便即隨去。行一里餘即至女家。家甚貧陋。為詳設食。至一更竟。聞一嫗喚云張姑子。女應曰。諾。詳問是誰。答云。向所道孤獨嫗也。二人共寢息。至曉雞鳴。詳去。二情相戀。女以紫巾贈詳。詳以布手巾報。行至昨所應處過溪。其夜水大瀑溢。深不可涉。乃迴向女家。覩不見昨處。但有一塚耳。 > Under the Han, Wu Xiang, a petty clerk of Zhuji County, was exhausted and dreading his corvée duties, so he set out to flee into the deep mountains. Walking to a stream as evening approached, he saw a young woman wearing brightly colored clothes, very graceful and upright. The woman said, 'I live alone by myself, with no neighbors, having only an old solitary woman more than ten paces away.' Hearing this, Xiang was delighted and went along with her. After walking for more than a li, they reached the woman's home. The house was very poor and humble. She prepared food for Xiang. When the first night watch ended, he heard an old woman calling, 'Miss Zhang!' The woman answered, 'Yes.' Xiang asked who it was, and she replied, 'The solitary old woman I spoke of earlier.' The two slept together. At dawn, when the cock crowed, Xiang left. Filled with mutual affection, the woman gave Xiang a purple kerchief, and Xiang returned the favor with a cloth hand-towel. Walking to the stream at the place where they had met the previous day, the water that night had flooded violently, too deep to wade across. He then turned back toward the woman's home, but could not see the place from yesterday; there was only a single grave mound. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 46.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.43) - [Next: 46.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.45) - [Up: 46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.46.44) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.46.44) · Pramāṇa