Verse 56

⁵⁶This man was full of what he had heard, a house of character and conduct and good qualities, holding to his vow, gentle, restrained, truthful, versed in the sacred words, and clean. ⁵⁷He waited on his teacher, on the fire, on guests and on his elders, without I-making; a good man, friend to every being, sparing of speech, finding fault with none. ⁵⁸One day this brahmin went into the forest to do what his father had told him, and coming back from there he carried fruit and flowers, firewood and kusa grass. ⁵⁹He saw a man of low birth full of desire, with a bondwoman; and he had drunk sweet liquor, and her eyes were rolling with it.

⁶⁰She was drunk, her waistband slipping, half uncovered, with no shame left; and he was playing and singing along with her and laughing there at her side. ⁶¹Seeing her held in an arm smeared with desire, he fell all at once under the sway of the one who lies in the heart, and was bewildered.