Uttarajjhayana 197.1.73-74

'Ever so many times have I been slit, cut, mangled, and skinned with keen-edged razors, knives, and shears. (62)
'As an antelope I have, against my will, been caught, bound, and fastened in snares and traps, and frequently I have been killed. (63)
'As a fish I have, against my will, been caught with hooks and in bow-nets; I have therein been scraped, slit, and killed, an infinite number of times. (64)
'As a bird I have been caught by hawks, trapped in nets, and bound with bird-lime, and I have been killed, an infinite number of times. (65)
'As a tree I have been felled, slit, sawn into planks, and stripped of the bark by carpenters with axes, hatchets, &c., an infinite number of times. (66)
'As iron I have been malleated, cut, torn, and filed by blacksmiths, an infinite number of times. (67)
'I have been made to drink hissing molten copper, iron, tin, and lead under horrid shrieks, an infinite number of times. (68)
'You like meat minced or roasted; I have been made to eat, ever so many times, poisoned meat, and red-hot to boot. (69)
'You like wine, liquor, spirits, and honey; I have been made to drink burning fat and blood. (70)
'Always frightened, trembling, distressed, and suffering, I have experienced the most exquisite pain and misery. (71)
'I have experienced in hell sharp, acute and severe, horrible, intolerable, dreadful, and formidable pain. (72)
'O father, infinitely more painful is the suffering in hell than any suffering in the world of men. (73)

'In every kind of existence I have undergone suffering which was not interrupted by a moment's reprieve.' (74)
To him his parents said: "Son, a man is free to enter the order, but it causes misery to a Sramana that he may not remedy any ailings." (75)
He answered: 'O father and mother, it is even thus as you have plainly told; but who takes care of beasts and birds in the woods? (76)
'As a wild animal by itself roams about in the woods, thus I shall practise the Law by controlling myself and doing penance. (77)
'When in a large forest a wild animal falls very sick at the foot of a tree, who is there to cure it? (78)
'Or who will give it medicine? or who will inquire after its health? or who will get food and drink for it, and feed it? (79)
'When it is in perfect health, it will roam about in woods and on (the shores of) lakes in search of food and drink. (80)
'When it has eaten and drunk in woods and lakes, it will walk about and go to rest according to the habits of wild animals. (81)
'In the same way a pious monk goes to many places and walks about just as the animals, but afterwards he goes to the upper regions. (82)
'As a wild animal goes by itself to many places, lives in many places, and always gets its food; thus a monk on his begging-tour should not despise nor blame (the food he gets). (83)
'I shall imitate this life of animals.' "Well, my son, as you please." With his parents' permission he gave up all his property. (84)