Kathasaritsagara 3.1.33

Story of the hypocritical ascetic.:— On the bank of the Ganges there is a city named Máakamnká; in that city long ago there was a certain ascetic who observed a vow of silence, and he lived on alms, and surrounded by numerous other holy beggars, dwelt in a monastery within the precincts of a god's temple where he had taken up his abode. Once, when be entered a certain merchant's house to beg, he saw a beautiful maiden coining out with alms in her hand, and the rascal seeing that she was wonderfully beautiful was smitten with love and exclaimed "Ah! Ah! Alas!" And that merchant overheard him. Then taking the alms he had received, he departed to his own house; and then the merchant went there and said to him in his astonishment,— " Why did you to-day suddenly break your vow of silence and say what you did?" When lie heard that, the ascetic said to the merchant— " This daughter of yours has inauspicious marks; when she marries, you will undoubtedly perish, wife, sons, and all. So, when I saw her, I was afflicted, for you are my devoted adherent; and thus it was on your account that I broke silence and said what I did. So place this daughter of yours by night in a basket, on the top of which there must be a light, and set her adrift on the Ganges." The merchant said, " So I will," and went away, and at night he did all he had been directed to do out of pure fear. The timid are ever unreflecting.

Story of the hypocritical ascetic.:— On the bank of the Ganges there is a city named Máakamnká; in that city long ago there was a certain ascetic who observed a vow of silence, and he lived on alms, and surrounded by numerous other holy beggars, dwelt in a monastery within the precincts of a god's temple where he had taken up his abode. Once, when be entered a certain merchant's house to beg, he saw a beautiful maiden coining out with alms in her hand, and the rascal seeing that she was wonderfully beautiful was smitten with love and exclaimed "Ah! Ah! Alas!" And that merchant overheard him. Then taking the alms he had received, he departed to his own house; and then the merchant went there and said to him in his astonishment,— " Why did you to-day suddenly break your vow of silence and say what you did?" When lie heard that, the ascetic said to the merchant— " This daughter of yours has inauspicious marks; when she marries, you will undoubtedly perish, wife, sons, and all. So, when I saw her, I was afflicted, for you are my devoted adherent; and thus it was on your account that I broke silence and said what I did. So place this daughter of yours by night in a basket, on the top of which there must be a light, and set her adrift on the Ganges." The merchant said, " So I will," and went away, and at night he did all he had been directed to do out of pure fear. The timid are ever unreflecting.