[25] Now at that time, in Bārāṇasī there was a clansman named Yasa, the son of a merchant-treasurer (seṭṭhi), delicately nurtured. He had three mansions: one for the winter, one for the summer, and one for the rains. During the four months [of the rains], being entertained in the rains mansion by musicians among whom there was no man, he did not come down to the lower part of the mansion. Then, while the clansman Yasa — furnished and endowed with the five strands of sensual pleasure (kāmaguṇa) — was being entertained, sleep came upon him first, and sleep came upon his retinue afterwards; and an oil lamp burned all through the night. Then the clansman Yasa, awakening first, saw his own retinue sleeping: one with a lute in her armpit, one with a tabor at her neck, one with a drum at her breast, one with disheveled hair, one drooling, and others muttering in their sleep — it seemed, one might think, a charnel ground come within reach of his hand. Seeing this, the danger (ādīnava) became manifest to him, and his mind (citta) settled in disenchantment (nibbidā). Then the clansman Yasa uttered an inspired utterance: "How distressing indeed, sirs! How oppressive indeed, sirs!"
Then the clansman Yasa, putting on his golden sandals, went to the door of the residence. Non-human beings opened the door, [thinking:] "Let no one make an obstacle to the clansman Yasa's going forth (pabbajjā) from home into homelessness." Then the clansman Yasa went to the city gate. Non-human beings opened the gate, [thinking:] "Let no one make an obstacle to the clansman Yasa's going forth from home into homelessness." Then the clansman Yasa went to the Deer Park at Isipatana.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.