[181] Herein, Sāriputta, this was my practice of seclusion. I dwelt having plunged deep into a certain tract of wilderness. Whenever I saw a cowherd, or a herder of livestock, or a grass-gatherer, or a wood-gatherer, or a forest worker, I would flee from forest to forest, from thicket to thicket, from lowland to lowland, from upland to upland. Why was that? So that they might not see me, and I might not see them. Just as, Sāriputta, a forest-bred deer, on seeing human beings, flees from forest to forest, from thicket to thicket, from lowland to lowland, from upland to upland — even so, Sāriputta, whenever I saw a cowherd, or a herder of livestock, or a grass-gatherer, or a wood-gatherer, or a forest worker, I would flee from forest to forest, from thicket to thicket, from lowland to lowland, from upland to upland. Why was that? So that they might not see me, and I might not see them. Such, Sāriputta, was my practice of seclusion.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.