Dhammapada 3.5.p4

3.5.p4

Tassevaṃ aparāparaṃ vicarantasseva bhariyā gabbhinī ahosi. So sattame vāre araññato kasibhaṇḍamādāya gehaṃ gantvā bhaṇḍakaṃ ṭhapetvā ‘‘attano kāsāvaṃ gaṇhissāmī’’ti gabbhaṃ pāvisi. Tasmiṃ khaṇe tassa bhariyā nipajjitvā niddāyati. Tassā nivatthasāṭako apagato hoti, mukhato ca lālā paggharati, nāsā ghuraghurāyati, mukhaṃ vivaṭṭaṃ, dantaṃ ghaṃsati, sā tassa uddhumātakasarīraṃ viya upaṭṭhāsi. So ‘‘aniccaṃ dukkhaṃ ida’’nti saññaṃ labhitvā, ‘‘ahaṃ ettakaṃ kālaṃ pabbajitvā imaṃ nissāya bhikkhubhāve saṇṭhātuṃ nāsakkhi’’nti kāsāyakoṭiyaṃ gahetvā udare bandhitvā gehā nikkhami.

As he was thus going back and forth, his wife became pregnant. The seventh time he returned from the forest with his farming implements he went to the house, put his implements away, and entered his own room, saying to himself, “I will put on my yellow robe again.” Now his wife happened to be abed and asleep at the time. Her undergarment had fallen off, saliva was flowing from her mouth, she was snoring, her mouth was wide open; she appeared to him like a swollen corpse. Grasping the thought, “All that is in this world is transitory, is involved in suffering,” he said to himself, “To think that because of her, all the time I have been a monk, I have been unable to continue steadfast in the monastic life!” Straightway taking his yellow robe by the hem, he ran out of the house, binding the robe about his belly as he ran.