原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
忘恩痴心 The Ingrate and the Foolish Heart
正是那：正是那：
忘恩漢騙了痴心婦，烈性魔來近木叉人。忘恩汉骗了痴心妇，烈性魔来近木叉人。
逐句解 Line by line
正是那：
正是那：
Truly it was:
Three characters standing alone. This is the ninth and shortest of the chapter's set-pieces — a single couplet — and the only one of the chapter's six instances of 正是 that actually announces verse.
忘恩漢騙了痴心婦，烈性魔來近木叉人。
忘恩汉骗了痴心妇，烈性魔来近木叉人。
The ingrate fellow has cheated the foolish-hearted woman; the fierce-natured demon comes to close with the man of Mokṣa.
忘恩漢 and 痴心婦 name the two parties to the deception in four characters, and the judgement falls on the man. 木叉 spells out Mokṣa, release or liberation, and stands here for the Great Sage as one travelling the road of it — an unusually generous title for a character the first half of the same couplet has just called an ingrate.
The closing couplet apportions blame with unexpected sharpness. 忘恩漢 — the man who forgot a kindness — is the Great Sage, and the kindness is the Rākṣasī's: she fed him, drank with him and handed him the fan. 痴心婦, the foolish-hearted woman, is less an insult than a diagnosis. The verdict on the evening's business is that one party was ungrateful and the other credulous.
The second line changes register entirely. The fierce-natured demon is coming to close with the man of Mokṣa — of liberation — which puts the Great Sage back on the pilgrimage and gives the coming fight a doctrinal frame it has completely lacked. In sixteen characters the couplet travels from a domestic swindle to the road west.