不本意ながら結婚したが独身の禁欲を保ったバーラーナシーのバラモンの本生話で、後に苦行者となり、妻の死を見つけても平然と食事を続け、崩れゆく運命にあるものはただ崩れただけだと説く。

A birth story of a Bārāṇasī brahmin who married reluctantly but lived in celibacy, later becoming an ascetic and, on finding his wife dead, ate his meal undisturbed, explaining that what is subject to dissolution has simply dissolved.