နမော တဿ ဘဂဝတော အရဟတော သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓဿ

Homage to that Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One.

ခုဒ္ဒကနိကာယေ

The Minor Collection

ထေရီဂါထာပါဠိ

Verses of the Elder Nuns

၁. ဧကကနိပါတော

1. The Book of the Ones

၁. အညတရာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of a Certain Elder Nun

၁.

1.

‘‘သုခံ [Pg.377] သုပါဟိ ထေရိကေ, ကတွာ စောဠေန ပါရုတာ;

ဥပသန္တော ဟိ တေ ရာဂေါ, သုက္ခဍာကံ ဝ ကုမ္ဘိယ’’န္တိ.

Dwell happily, O Therī, covered with a robe made from rags; for your passion is pacified, like dried vegetables in a pot.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ အညတရာ ထေရီ အပညာတာ ဘိက္ခုနီ ဂါထံ အဘာသိတ္ထာတိ.

Thus indeed a certain unknown elder nun, a bhikkhunī, recited this verse.

၂. မုတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Nun Muttā

၂.

2.

‘‘မုတ္တေ မုစ္စဿု ယောဂေဟိ, စန္ဒော ရာဟုဂ္ဂဟာ ဣဝ;

ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တေန စိတ္တေန, အနဏာ ဘုဉ္ဇ ပိဏ္ဍက’’န္တိ.

O Muttā, be freed from the yokes, just as the moon is freed from the grasp of Rāhu. With a well-freed mind, being free from debt, partake of the alms-food.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ ဘဂဝါ မုတ္တံ သိက္ခမာနံ ဣမာယ ဂါထာယ အဘိဏှံ ဩဝဒတီတိ.

Thus indeed the Blessed One repeatedly admonished the female probationer Muttā with this verse.

၃. ပုဏ္ဏာထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of the Elder Nun Puṇṇā

၃.

3.

‘‘ပုဏ္ဏေ ပူရဿု ဓမ္မေဟိ, စန္ဒော ပန္နရသေရိဝ;

ပရိပုဏ္ဏာယ ပညာယ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလယာ’’တိ.

O Puṇṇā, be full of the good qualities, like the moon on the fifteenth day. With fully perfected wisdom, utterly destroy the mass of delusion.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ ပုဏ္ဏာ ထေရီ ဂါထံ အဘာသိတ္ထာတိ.

Thus indeed the elder nun Puṇṇā recited this verse.

၄. တိဿာထေရီဂါထာ

4. The Verses of the Elder Nun Tissā

၄.

4.

‘‘တိဿေ သိက္ခဿု သိက္ခာယ, မာ တံ ယောဂါ ဥပစ္စဂုံ;

သဗ္ဗယောဂဝိသံယုတ္တာ, စရ လောကေ အနာသဝါ’’တိ.

O Tissā, train yourself in the training; may the yokes not overcome you. Disjoined from all yokes, live in the world free from taints.

… တိဿာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Tissā recited this verse.

၅. အညတရာတိဿာထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of Another Elder Nun Tissā

၅.

5.

‘‘တိဿေ [Pg.378] ယုဉ္ဇဿု ဓမ္မေဟိ, ခဏော တံ မာ ဥပစ္စဂါ;

ခဏာတီတာ ဟိ သောစန္တိ, နိရယမှိ သမပ္ပိတာ’’တိ.

O Tissā, apply yourself to the good qualities; may the opportune moment not pass you by. For those who have let the moment pass grieve, having been consigned to hell.

… အညတရာ တိဿာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed another elder nun Tissā recited this verse.

၆. ဓီရာထေရီဂါထာ

6. The Verses of the Elder Nun Dhīrā

၆.

6.

‘‘ဓီရေ နိရောဓံ ဖုသေဟိ, သညာဝူပသမံ သုခံ;

အာရာဓယာဟိ နိဗ္ဗာနံ, ယောဂက္ခေမမနုတ္တရ’’န္တိ.

O Dhīrā, attain cessation, the blissful calming of perception. Accomplish Nibbāna, the unsurpassed security from the yokes.

… ဓီရာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Dhīrā recited this verse.

၇. ဝီရာထေရီဂါထာ

7. The Verses of the Elder Nun Vīrā

၇.

7.

‘‘ဝီရာ ဝီရေဟိ ဓမ္မေဟိ, ဘိက္ခုနီ ဘာဝိတိန္ဒြိယာ;

ဓာရေဟိ အန္တိမံ ဒေဟံ, ဇေတွာ မာရံ သဝါဟိနိ’’န္တိ.

O Vīrā, heroic with heroic qualities, a bhikkhunī with developed faculties, bear this final body, having conquered Māra with his army.

… ဝီရာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Vīrā recited this verse.

၈. မိတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

8. The Verses of the Elder Nun Mittā

၈.

8.

‘‘သဒ္ဓါယ ပဗ္ဗဇိတွာန, မိတ္တေ မိတ္တရတာ ဘဝ;

ဘာဝေဟိ ကုသလေ ဓမ္မေ, ယောဂက္ခေမဿ ပတ္တိယာ’’တိ.

O Mittā, having gone forth in faith, be one who delights in good friends. Develop the wholesome qualities for the attainment of security from the yokes.

… မိတ္တာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Mittā recited this verse.

၉. ဘဒြာထေရီဂါထာ

9. The Verses of the Elder Nun Bhadrā

၉.

9.

‘‘သဒ္ဓါယ ပဗ္ဗဇိတွာန, ဘဒြေ ဘဒြရတာ ဘဝ;

ဘာဝေဟိ ကုသလေ ဓမ္မေ, ယောဂက္ခေမမနုတ္တရ’’န္တိ.

O Bhadrā, having gone forth in faith, be one who delights in what is auspicious. Develop the wholesome qualities for the attainment of the unsurpassed security from the yokes.

… ဘဒြာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Bhadrā recited this verse.

၁၀. ဥပသမာထေရီဂါထာ

10. The Verses of the Elder Nun Upasamā

၁၀.

10.

‘‘ဥပသမေ တရေ ဩဃံ, မစ္စုဓေယျံ သုဒုတ္တရံ;

ဓာရေဟိ အန္တိမံ ဒေဟံ, ဇေတွာ မာရံ သဝါဟန’’န္တိ.

O Upasamā, cross over the flood, the realm of Death, so very difficult to cross. Having conquered Māra with his army, bear this final body.

… ဥပသမာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Upasamā recited this verse.

၁၁. မုတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

11. The Verses of the Elder Nun Muttā

၁၁.

11.

‘‘သုမုတ္တာ [Pg.379] သာဓုမုတ္တာမှိ, တီဟိ ခုဇ္ဇေဟိ မုတ္တိယာ;

ဥဒုက္ခလေန မုသလေန, ပတိနာ ခုဇ္ဇကေန စ;

မုတ္တာမှိ ဇာတိမရဏာ, ဘဝနေတ္တိ သမူဟတာ’’တိ.

Well freed, truly freed am I, released from three crooked things: from the mortar, from the pestle, and from my hunchbacked husband. Freed am I from birth and death; the craving that leads to becoming is uprooted.

… မုတ္တာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Muttā recited this verse.

၁၂. ဓမ္မဒိန္နာထေရီဂါထာ

12. The Verses of the Elder Nun Dhammadinnā

၁၂.

12.

‘‘ဆန္ဒဇာတာ အဝသာယီ, မနသာ စ ဖုဋာ သိယာ;

ကာမေသု အပ္ပဋိဗဒ္ဓစိတ္တာ, ဥဒ္ဓံသောတာတိ ဝုစ္စတီ’’တိ.

She in whom zeal is born, who is resolute, and whose mind has made contact, whose mind is not bound to sensual pleasures—she is called ‘one who goes upstream.’

… ဓမ္မဒိန္နာ ထေရီ….

Thus indeed the elder nun Dhammadinnā recited this verse.

၁၃.ဝိသာခါထေရီဂါထာ

13. The Verse of the Elder Nun Visākhā

၁၃.

13.

‘‘ကရောထ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနံ, ယံ ကတွာ နာနုတပ္ပတိ;

ခိပ္ပံ ပါဒါနိ ဓောဝိတွာ, ဧကမန္တေ နိသီဒထာ’’တိ.

Practice the Buddha’s teaching, having done which, one does not regret. Quickly wash your feet and sit down in a solitary place.

… ဝိသာခါ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Visākhā recited this verse.

၁၄.သုမနာထေရီဂါထာ

14. The Verse of the Elder Nun Sumanā

၁၄.

14.

‘‘ဓာတုယော ဒုက္ခတော ဒိသွာ, မာ ဇာတိံ ပုနရာဂမိ;

ဘဝေ ဆန္ဒံ ဝိရာဇေတွာ, ဥပသန္တာ စရိဿသီ’’တိ.

Having seen the elements as suffering, do not come again to birth. Having dispelled desire for existence, you will dwell pacified.

… သုမနာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Sumanā recited this verse.

၁၅. ဥတ္တရာထေရီဂါထာ

15. The Verse of the Elder Nun Uttarā

၁၅.

15.

‘‘ကာယေန သံဝုတာ အာသိံ, ဝါစာယ ဥဒ စေတသာ;

သမူလံ တဏှမဗ္ဗုယှ, သီတိဘူတာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

I was restrained in body, speech, and also in mind. Having pulled out craving with its root, I have become cooled, extinguished.

… ဥတ္တရာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Uttarā recited this verse.

၁၆. ဝုဍ္ဎပဗ္ဗဇိတသုမနာထေရီဂါထာ

16. The Verse of the Elder Nun Sumanā Who Went Forth in Old Age

၁၆.

16.

‘‘သုခံ တွံ ဝုဍ္ဎိကေ သေဟိ, ကတွာ စောဠေန ပါရူတာ;

ဥပသန္တော ဟိ တေ ရာဂေါ, သီတိဘူတာသိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

Dwell happily, old woman, covered by the robe you made from a rag. For your passion is stilled; you have become cooled, extinguished.

… သုမနာ ဝုဍ္ဎပဗ္ဗဇိတာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Sumanā, who went forth in old age, recited this verse.

၁၇. ဓမ္မာထေရီဂါထာ

17. The Verse of the Elder Nun Dhammā

၁၇.

17.

‘‘ပိဏ္ဍပါတံ [Pg.380] စရိတွာန, ဒဏ္ဍမောလုဗ္ဘ ဒုဗ္ဗလာ;

ဝေဓမာနေဟိ ဂတ္တေဟိ, တတ္ထေဝ နိပတိံ ဆမာ;

ဒိသွာ အာဒီနဝံ ကာယေ, အထ စိတ္တံ ဝိမုစ္စိ မေ’’တိ.

Having wandered for alms, feeble and leaning on a staff, with trembling limbs I fell right there on the ground. Having seen the peril in the body, my mind was then liberated.

… ဓမ္မာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Dhammā recited this verse.

၁၈. သံဃာထေရီဂါထာ

18. The Verse of the Elder Nun Saṅghā

၁၈.

18.

‘‘ဟိတွာ ဃရေ ပဗ္ဗဇိတွာ, ဟိတွာ ပုတ္တံ ပသုံ ပိယံ;

ဟိတွာ ရာဂဉ္စ ဒေါသဉ္စ, အဝိဇ္ဇဉ္စ ဝိရာဇိယ;

သမူလံ တဏှမဗ္ဗုယှ, ဥပသန္တာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

Having abandoned home and gone forth, having abandoned my dear son and cattle; having abandoned lust and hatred, and having dispelled ignorance; having pulled out craving with its root, I am pacified, extinguished.

… သံဃာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Saṅghā recited this verse.

ဧကကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Ones is finished.

၂. ဒုကနိပါတော

2. The Chapter of Twos

၁. အဘိရူပနန္ဒာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Nun Abhirūpanandā

၁၉.

19.

‘‘အာတုရံ [Pg.381] အသုစိံ ပူတိံ, ပဿ နန္ဒေ သမုဿယံ;

အသုဘာယ စိတ္တံ ဘာဝေဟိ, ဧကဂ္ဂံ သုသမာဟိတံ.

Behold, O Nandā, this aggregate as afflicted, impure, and putrid. Develop your mind on the foul, one-pointed and well-composed.

၂၀.

20.

‘‘အနိမိတ္တဉ္စ ဘာဝေဟိ, မာနာနုသယမုဇ္ဇဟ;

တတော မာနာဘိသမယာ, ဥပသန္တာ စရိဿသီ’’တိ.

Cultivate the signless and abandon the underlying tendency to conceit. Then, through the full understanding of conceit, you will dwell pacified.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ ဘဂဝါ အဘိရူပနန္ဒံ သိက္ခမာနံ ဣမာဟိ ဂါထာဟိ အဘိဏှံ ဩဝဒတီတိ.

Thus indeed the Blessed One frequently advised the trainee Abhirūpanandā with these verses.

၂. ဇေန္တာထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Nun Jentā

၂၁.

21.

‘‘ယေ ဣမေ သတ္တ ဗောဇ္ဈင်္ဂါ, မဂ္ဂါ နိဗ္ဗာနပတ္တိယာ;

ဘာဝိတာ တေ မယာ သဗ္ဗေ, ယထာ ဗုဒ္ဓေန ဒေသိတာ.

These seven factors of enlightenment, the path for the attainment of Nibbāna—all of them have been developed by me, just as they were taught by the Buddha.

၂၂.

22.

‘‘ဒိဋ္ဌော ဟိ မေ သော ဘဂဝါ, အန္တိမောယံ သမုဿယော;

ဝိက္ခီဏော ဇာတိသံသာရော, နတ္ထိ ဒါနိ ပုနဗ္ဘဝေါ’’တိ.

Indeed, that Blessed One has been seen by me; this is the final body. The round of births is exhausted; now there is no future state of being.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ ဇေန္တာ ထေရီ ဂါထာယော အဘာသိတ္ထာတိ.

Thus indeed the Elder Nun Jentā recited these verses.

၃. သုမင်္ဂလမာတာထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of the Elder Nun Sumaṅgalamātā

၂၃.

23.

‘‘သုမုတ္တိကာ သုမုတ္တိကာ, သာဓုမုတ္တိကာမှိ မုသလဿ;

အဟိရိကော မေ ဆတ္တကံ ဝါပိ, ဥက္ခလိကာ မေ ဒေဍ္ဍုဘံ ဝါတိ.

Well-freed, well-freed! Excellently freed am I from the pestle. My shameless husband, the umbrella, and my cooking pot that smells like a water snake—from these I am well-freed.

၂၄.

24.

‘‘ရာဂဉ္စ အဟံ ဒေါသဉ္စ, စိစ္စိဋိ စိစ္စိဋီတိ ဝိဟနာမိ;

သာ ရုက္ခမူလမုပဂမ္မ, အဟော သုခန္တိ သုခတော ဈာယာမီ’’တိ.

I have done away with lust and hatred, along with the 'cicciṭi' sound. Having approached the root of a tree, I meditate with ease, thinking: 'Oh, what happiness!'

… သုမင်္ဂလမာတာ ထေရီ.

Thus the Elder Nun Sumaṅgalamātā recited these verses.

၄. အဍ္ဎကာသိထေရီဂါထာ

4. The Verses of the Elder Nun Aḍḍhakāsī

၂၅.

25.

‘‘ယာဝ ကာသိဇနပဒေါ, သုင်္ကော မေ တတ္ထကော အဟု;

တံ ကတွာ နေဂမော အဂ္ဃံ, အဍ္ဎေနဂ္ဃံ ဌပေသိ မံ.

As great as the revenue of the Kāsī country, so great was my fee. The townspeople then set my value, establishing my price at half of that.

၂၆.

26.

‘‘အထ [Pg.382] နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒဟံ ရူပေ, နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒဉ္စ ဝိရဇ္ဇဟံ;

မာ ပုန ဇာတိသံသာရံ, သန္ဓာဝေယျံ ပုနပ္ပုနံ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

Then I grew weary of form; and being weary, I became dispassionate. May I not run through the round of births again and again. The three true knowledges have been realized; the Buddha’s teaching has been done.

… အဍ္ဎကာသိ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Aḍḍhakāsī recited these verses.

၅. စိတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of the Elder Nun Cittā

၂၇.

27.

‘‘ကိဉ္စာပိ ခေါမှိ ကိသိကာ, ဂိလာနာ ဗာဠှဒုဗ္ဗလာ;

ဒဏ္ဍမောလုဗ္ဘ ဂစ္ဆာမိ, ပဗ္ဗတံ အဘိရူဟိယ.

Though indeed I am emaciated, sick, and very weak, and go leaning on a staff, having ascended the mountain,

၂၈.

28.

‘‘သံဃာဋိံ နိက္ခိပိတွာန, ပတ္တကဉ္စ နိကုဇ္ဇိယ;

သေလေ ခမ္ဘေသိမတ္တာနံ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလိယာ’’တိ.

Having laid down my outer robe and overturned my bowl, I propped myself up on the rock, having split apart the mass of darkness.

… စိတ္တာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nun Cittā recited these verses.

၆. မေတ္တိကာထေရီဂါထာ

6. Verses of the Elder Nun Mettikā

၂၉.

29.

‘‘ကိဉ္စာပိ ခေါမှိ ဒုက္ခိတာ, ဒုဗ္ဗလာ ဂတယောဗ္ဗနာ;

ဒဏ္ဍမောလုဗ္ဘ ဂစ္ဆာမိ, ပဗ္ဗတံ အဘိရူဟိယ.

Though indeed I am afflicted, weak, and past my youth, I go leaning on a staff; having ascended the mountain,

၃၀.

30.

‘‘နိက္ခိပိတွာန သံဃာဋိံ, ပတ္တကဉ္စ နိကုဇ္ဇိယ;

နိသိန္နာ စမှိ သေလမှိ, အထ စိတ္တံ ဝိမုစ္စိ မေ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

Having laid down my outer robe and overturned my bowl, I sat upon the rock. Then my mind was liberated. The three knowledges have been attained by me; the teaching of the Buddha has been accomplished.

… မေတ္တိကာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Mettikā.

၇. မိတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

7. Verses of the Elder Nun Mittā

၃၁.

31.

‘‘စာတုဒ္ဒသိံ ပဉ္စဒသိံ, ယာ စ ပက္ခဿ အဋ္ဌမီ;

ပါဋိဟာရိယပက္ခဉ္စ, အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသုသမာဂတံ.

On the fourteenth, the fifteenth, and on the eighth day of the fortnight, and also on the special observance days, endowed with the eight factors,

၃၂.

32.

‘‘ဥပေါသထံ ဥပါဂစ္ဆိံ, ဒေဝကာယာဘိနန္ဒိနီ;

သာဇ္ဇ ဧကေန ဘတ္တေန, မုဏ္ဍာ သံဃာဋိပါရုတာ;

ဒေဝကာယံ န ပတ္ထေဟံ, ဝိနေယျ ဟဒယေ ဒရ’’န္တိ.

I undertook the Uposatha, delighting in the celestial realms. But today, with a single meal, shaven-headed, and clad in the outer robe, I no longer long for any celestial realm, having removed the anguish from my heart.

… မိတ္တာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Mittā.

၈. အဘယမာတုထေရီဂါထာ

8. Verses of the Elder Nun Abhayamātā

၃၃.

33.

‘‘ဥဒ္ဓံ ပါဒတလာ အမ္မ, အဓော ဝေ ကေသမတ္ထကာ;

ပစ္စဝေက္ခဿုမံ ကာယံ, အသုစိံ ပူတိဂန္ဓိကံ.

“Mother, from the soles of the feet upwards, and from the tips of the hair downwards, contemplate this body as impure and foul-smelling.”

၃၄.

34.

‘‘ဧဝံ [Pg.383] ဝိဟရမာနာယ, သဗ္ဗော ရာဂေါ သမူဟတော;

ပရိဠာဟော သမုစ္ဆိန္နော, သီတိဘူတာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

“Dwelling thus, all passion has been uprooted. The burning torment has been cut off. I have become cooled, extinguished.”

… အဘယမာတု ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Abhayamātā.

၉. အဘယာထေရီဂါထာ

9. Verses of the Elder Nun Abhayā

၃၅.

35.

‘‘အဘယေ ဘိဒုရော ကာယော, ယတ္ထ သတာ ပုထုဇ္ဇနာ;

နိက္ခိပိဿာမိမံ ဒေဟံ, သမ္ပဇာနာ သတီမတီ.

“Abhayā, this body is perishable, that to which ordinary people cling. I shall lay aside this frame, clearly comprehending and mindful.”

၃၆.

36.

‘‘ဗဟူဟိ ဒုက္ခဓမ္မေဟိ, အပ္ပမာဒရတာယ မေ;

တဏှက္ခယော အနုပ္ပတ္တော, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

For me, who was touched by many painful states and who delighted in heedfulness, the destruction of craving has been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.

… အဘယာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Abhayā.

၁၀. သာမာထေရီဂါထာ

10. Verses of the Elder Nun Sāmā

၃၇.

37.

‘‘စတုက္ခတ္တုံ ပဉ္စက္ခတ္တုံ, ဝိဟာရာ ဥပနိက္ခမိံ;

အလဒ္ဓါ စေတသော သန္တိံ, စိတ္တေ အဝသဝတ္တိနီ;

တဿာ မေ အဋ္ဌမီ ရတ္တိ, ယတော တဏှာ သမူဟတာ.

“Four times, five times, I went out from my dwelling, not having found peace of mind, not in control of my own mind. For me, this is the eighth night since craving was uprooted.”

၃၈.

38.

‘‘ဗဟူဟိ ဒုက္ခဓမ္မေဟိ, အပ္ပမာဒရတာယ မေ;

တဏှက္ခယော အနုပ္ပတ္တော, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

For me, who delighted in heedfulness amidst many painful states, the destruction of craving has been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.

… သာမာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Sāmā.

ဒုကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Twos is concluded.

၃. တိကနိပါတော

3. The Chapter of Threes

၁. အပရာသာမာထေရီဂါထာ

1. Verses of the Other Elder Nun Sāmā

၃၉.

39.

‘‘ပဏ္ဏဝီသတိဝဿာနိ[Pg.384], ယတော ပဗ္ဗဇိတာယ မေ;

နာဘိဇာနာမိ စိတ္တဿ, သမံ လဒ္ဓံ ကုဒါစနံ.

“For the twenty-five years since I went forth, I do not recall my mind ever attaining peace.”

၄၀.

40.

‘‘အလဒ္ဓါ စေတသော သန္တိံ, စိတ္တေ အဝသဝတ္တိနီ;

တတော သံဝေဂမာပါဒိံ, သရိတွာ ဇိနသာသနံ.

“Not finding peace of mind, not in control of my own mind, I was overcome with spiritual urgency, remembering the Victor’s teaching.”

၄၁.

41.

‘‘ဗဟူဟိ ဒုက္ခဓမ္မေဟိ, အပ္ပမာဒရတာယ မေ;

တဏှက္ခယော အနုပ္ပတ္တော, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ;

အဇ္ဇ မေ သတ္တမီ ရတ္တိ, ယတော တဏှာ ဝိသောသိတာ’’တိ.

For me, who was touched by many painful states and who delighted in heedfulness, the destruction of craving has been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished. Today is the seventh night since my craving was dried up.

… အပရာ သာမာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the other Elder Nun Sāmā.

၂. ဥတ္တမာထေရီဂါထာ

2. Verses of the Elder Nun Uttamā

၄၂.

42.

‘‘စတုက္ခတ္တုံ ပဉ္စက္ခတ္တုံ, ဝိဟာရာ ဥပနိက္ခမိံ;

အလဒ္ဓါ စေတသော သန္တိံ, စိတ္တေ အဝသဝတ္တိနီ.

“Four times, five times, I went out from my dwelling, not having found peace of mind, not in control of my own mind.”

၄၃.

43.

‘‘သာ ဘိက္ခုနိံ ဥပဂစ္ဆိံ, ယာ မေ သဒ္ဓါယိကာ အဟု;

သာ မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ခန္ဓာယတနဓာတုယော.

“I approached a nun in whom I had confidence. She taught me the Dhamma: the aggregates, the sense bases, and the elements.”

၄၄.

44.

‘‘တဿာ ဓမ္မံ သုဏိတွာန, ယထာ မံ အနုသာသိ သာ;

သတ္တာဟံ ဧကပလ္လင်္ကေန, နိသီဒိံ ပီတိသုခသမပ္ပိတာ ;

အဋ္ဌမိယာ ပါဒေ ပသာရေသိံ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလိယာ’’တိ.

“Having heard her Dhamma, I practiced just as she instructed me. For seven days I sat in a single cross-legged posture, filled with rapture and bliss. On the eighth day, having split apart the mass of darkness, I stretched out my feet.”

… ဥတ္တမာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the Elder Nun Uttamā.

၃. အပရာဥတ္တမာထေရီဂါထာ

3. Verses of the Other Elder Nun Uttamā

၄၅.

45.

‘‘ယေ ဣမေ သတ္တ ဗောဇ္ဈင်္ဂါ, မဂ္ဂါ နိဗ္ဗာနပတ္တိယာ;

ဘာဝိတာ တေ မယာ သဗ္ဗေ, ယထာ ဗုဒ္ဓေန ဒေသိတာ.

“These seven factors of enlightenment, the path for attaining Nibbāna—all have been developed by me, just as they were taught by the Buddha.”

၄၆.

46.

‘‘သုညတဿာနိမိတ္တဿ, လာဘိနီဟံ ယဒိစ္ဆကံ;

ဩရသာ ဓီတာ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ, နိဗ္ဗာနာဘိရတာ သဒါ.

“I am one who attains at will the liberations of emptiness and the signless. A true-born daughter of the Buddha, I always delight in Nibbāna.”

၄၇.

47.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ [Pg.385] ကာမာ သမုစ္ဆိန္နာ, ယေ ဒိဗ္ဗာ ယေ စ မာနုသာ;

ဝိက္ခီဏော ဇာတိသံသာရော, နတ္ထိ ဒါနိ ပုနဗ္ဘဝေါ’’တိ.

“All sensual pleasures have been cut off—both the divine and the human. The round of births is exhausted; now there is no more becoming.”

… အပရာ ဥတ္တမာ ထေရီ….

Thus spoke the other Elder Nun Uttamā.

၄. ဒန္တိကာထေရီဂါထာ

4. Verses of the Elder Nun Dantikā

၄၈.

48.

‘‘ဒိဝါဝိဟာရာ နိက္ခမ္မ, ဂိဇ္ဈကူဋမှိ ပဗ္ဗတေ;

နာဂံ ဩဂါဟမုတ္တိဏ္ဏံ, နဒီတီရမှိ အဒ္ဒသံ.

“Having come out from my day’s retreat on Vulture’s Peak mountain, I saw on the riverbank an elephant that had plunged into the water and come out.”

၄၉.

49.

‘‘ပုရိသော အင်္ကုသမာဒါယ, ‘ဒေဟိ ပါဒ’န္တိ ယာစတိ;

နာဂေါ ပသာရယီ ပါဒံ, ပုရိသော နာဂမာရုဟိ.

“A man, taking up a goad, requested, ‘Give me your foot.’ The elephant extended its foot, and the man mounted it.”

၅၀.

50.

‘‘ဒိသွာ အဒန္တံ ဒမိတံ, မနုဿာနံ ဝသံ ဂတံ;

တတော စိတ္တံ သမာဓေသိံ, ခလု တာယ ဝနံ ဂတာ’’တိ.

Having seen the untamed one tamed and come under the control of humans, I, who had gone to the forest, thereupon composed my mind because of that.

… ဒန္တိကာ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Dantikā recited these verses.

၅. ဥဗ္ဗိရိထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of the Elder Nun Ubbiri

၅၁.

51.

‘‘အမ္မ ဇီဝါတိ ဝနမှိ ကန္ဒသိ, အတ္တာနံ အဓိဂစ္ဆ ဥဗ္ဗိရိ;

စုလ္လာသီတိသဟဿာနိ, သဗ္ဗာ ဇီဝသနာမိကာ;

ဧတမှာဠာဟနေ ဒဍ္ဎာ, တာသံ ကမနုသောစသိ.

‘O Jīvā, my dear!’ you cry in the forest. Come to your senses, Ubbiri! Eighty-four thousand, all with the name Jīvā, have been burned in this very charnel ground. For which of them do you grieve?

၅၂.

52.

‘‘အဗ္ဗဟီ ဝတ မေ သလ္လံ, ဒုဒ္ဒသံ ဟဒယဿိတံ ;

ယံ မေ သောကပရေတာယ, ဓီတုသောကံ ဗျပါနုဒိ.

Indeed, the dart has been drawn out from me—hard to see, lodged in my heart—for he has dispelled the grief for my daughter which had overcome me, who was afflicted by sorrow.

၅၃.

53.

‘‘သာဇ္ဇ အဗ္ဗူဠှသလ္လာဟံ, နိစ္ဆာတာ ပရိနိဗ္ဗုတာ;

ဗုဒ္ဓံ ဓမ္မဉ္စ သံဃဉ္စ, ဥပေမိ သရဏံ မုနိ’’န္တိ.

Today I, with dart drawn out, without thirst, am fully extinguished. I go for refuge to the Sage, the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha.

… ဥဗ္ဗိရီ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Ubbirī recited these verses.

၆. သုက္ကာထေရီဂါထာ

6. The Verses of the Elder Nun Sukkā

၅၄.

54.

‘‘ကိံမေ ကတာ ရာဇဂဟေ မနုဿာ, မဓုံ ပီတာဝ အစ္ဆရေ;

ယေ သုက္ကံ န ဥပါသန္တိ, ဒေသေန္တိံ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနံ.

What is the matter with the people in Rājagaha? They sit as if intoxicated with honey, in that they do not attend upon Sukkā as she teaches the Buddha's dispensation.

၅၅.

55.

‘‘တဉ္စ အပ္ပဋိဝါနီယံ, အသေစနကမောဇဝံ;

ပိဝန္တိ မညေ သပ္ပညာ, ဝလာဟကမိဝဒ္ဓဂူ.

And that Dhamma—unfailing, perfect, and full of essence—the wise, I think, drink it, just as travellers drink from a rain cloud.

၅၆.

56.

‘‘သုက္ကာ [Pg.386] သုက္ကေဟိ ဓမ္မေဟိ, ဝီတရာဂါ သမာဟိတာ;

ဓာရေတိ အန္တိမံ ဒေဟံ, ဇေတွာ မာရံ သဝါဟန’’န္တိ.

Sukkā, endowed with pure qualities, free from passion and composed, bears her final body, having conquered Māra with his host.

… သုက္ကာ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Sukkā recited these verses.

၇. သေလာထေရီဂါထာ

7. The Verses of the Elder Nun Selā

၅၇.

57.

‘‘နတ္ထိ နိဿရဏံ လောကေ, ကိံ ဝိဝေကေန ကာဟသိ;

ဘုဉ္ဇာဟိ ကာမရတိယော, မာဟု ပစ္ဆာနုတာပိနီ’’.

There is no escape in the world; what will you do with seclusion? Enjoy the delights of sensuality; do not be one who repents later.

၅၈.

58.

‘‘သတ္တိသူလူပမာ ကာမာ, ခန္ဓာသံ အဓိကုဋ္ဋနာ;

ယံ တွံ ‘ကာမရတိံ’ ဗြူသိ, ‘အရတီ’ ဒါနိ သာ မမ.

Sensual pleasures are like spears and stakes; they are a chopping block for the aggregates. What you call ‘delight in sensuality,’ is now non-delight for me.

၅၉.

59.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တကာ’’တိ.

Everywhere delight has been destroyed, the mass of darkness has been shattered. Know me thus, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker!

… သေလာ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Selā recited these verses.

၈. သောမာထေရီဂါထာ

8. The Verses of the Elder Nun Somā

၆၀.

60.

‘‘ယံ တံ ဣသီဟိ ပတ္တဗ္ဗံ, ဌာနံ ဒုရဘိသမ္ဘဝံ;

န တံ ဒွင်္ဂုလပညာယ, သက္ကာ ပပ္ပောတုမိတ္ထိယာ’’.

That state which is to be attained by sages, a place difficult to reach—it is not possible for a woman with her two-finger wisdom to attain it.

၆၁.

61.

‘‘ဣတ္ထိဘာဝေါ နော ကိံ ကယိရာ, စိတ္တမှိ သုသမာဟိတေ;

ဉာဏမှိ ဝတ္တမာနမှိ, သမ္မာ ဓမ္မံ ဝိပဿတော.

What can womanhood do to me, for whom the mind is well-concentrated, while knowledge is present, as I rightly see the Dhamma with insight?

၆၂.

62.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တကာ’’တိ.

Everywhere delight has been destroyed, the mass of darkness has been shattered. Know me thus, O Evil One: you are defeated, O Ender!

… သောမာ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Somā recited these verses.

တိကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Threes is concluded.

၄. စတုက္ကနိပါတော

4. The Chapter of Fours

၁. ဘဒ္ဒါကာပိလာနီထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Nun Bhaddā Kāpilānī

၆၃.

63.

‘‘ပုတ္တော [Pg.387] ဗုဒ္ဓဿ ဒါယာဒေါ, ကဿပေါ သုသမာဟိတော;

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ယောဝေဒိ, သဂ္ဂါပါယဉ္စ ပဿတိ.

Kassapa, son of the Buddha and his heir, is well-concentrated; he who knows his former lives, and sees the heavens and the planes of loss.

၆၄.

64.

‘‘အထော ဇာတိက္ခယံ ပတ္တော, အဘိညာဝေါသိတော မုနိ;

ဧတာဟိ တီဟိ ဝိဇ္ဇာဟိ, တေဝိဇ္ဇော ဟောတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော.

Furthermore, having reached the destruction of birth, a sage perfected in the direct knowledges, with these three true knowledges, he becomes a brahmin possessed of the threefold knowledge.

၆၅.

65.

‘‘တထေဝ ဘဒ္ဒါ ကာပိလာနီ, တေဝိဇ္ဇာ မစ္စုဟာယိနီ;

ဓာရေတိ အန္တိမံ ဒေဟံ, ဇေတွာ မာရံ သဝါဟနံ.

Likewise, Bhaddā Kāpilānī, possessed of the threefold knowledge, has left death behind. She bears her final body, having conquered Māra and his mount.

၆၆.

66.

‘‘ဒိသွာ အာဒီနဝံ လောကေ, ဥဘော ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ မယံ;

တျမှ ခီဏာသဝါ ဒန္တာ, သီတိဘူတမှ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

Having seen the peril in the world, we both went forth. We are those whose taints are destroyed, tamed, become cool, and utterly unbound.

… ဘဒ္ဒါ ကာပိလာနီ ထေရီ….

The elder nun Bhaddā Kāpilānī recited these verses.

စတုက္ကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Fours is concluded.

၅. ပဉ္စကနိပါတော

5. The Chapter of Fives

၁. အညတရာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of a Certain Elder Nun

၆၇.

67.

‘‘ပဏ္ဏဝီသတိဝဿာနိ[Pg.388], ယတော ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ အဟံ;

နာစ္ဆရာသံဃာတမတ္တမ္ပိ, စိတ္တဿူပသမဇ္ဈဂံ.

For twenty-five years since I went forth, not even for the space of a finger-snap did I find peace of mind.

၆၈.

68.

‘‘အလဒ္ဓါ စေတသော သန္တိံ, ကာမရာဂေနဝဿုတာ;

ဗာဟာ ပဂ္ဂယှ ကန္ဒန္တီ, ဝိဟာရံ ပါဝိသိံ အဟံ.

Having found no peace of mind, drenched by sensual lust, I entered the monastery, wailing with my arms upraised.

၆၉.

69.

‘‘သာ ဘိက္ခုနိံ ဥပါဂစ္ဆိံ, ယာ မေ သဒ္ဓါယိကာ အဟု;

သာ မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ခန္ဓာယတနဓာတုယော.

I went to a certain nun who was trustworthy to me. She taught me the Dhamma: the aggregates, the sense bases, and the elements.

၇၀.

70.

‘‘တဿာ ဓမ္မံ သုဏိတွာန, ဧကမန္တေ ဥပါဝိသိံ;

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ဇာနာမိ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု ဝိသောဓိတံ.

Having heard her Dhamma, I sat down in a suitable place. I know my former lives, and my divine eye is purified.

၇၁.

71.

‘‘စေတောပရိစ္စဉာဏဉ္စ, သောတဓာတု ဝိသောဓိတာ;

ဣဒ္ဓီပိ မေ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ပတ္တော မေ အာသဝက္ခယော;

ဆဠဘိညာ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

The knowledge of others' minds is purified, the divine ear element is purified. Psychic power has been realized by me; I have attained the destruction of the taints. The six direct knowledges are realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

… အညတရာ ထေရီ ….

A certain elder nun recited these verses.

၂. ဝိမလာထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Nun Vimalā

၇၂.

72.

‘‘မတ္တာ ဝဏ္ဏေန ရူပေန, သောဘဂ္ဂေန ယသေန စ;

ယောဗ္ဗနေန စုပတ္ထဒ္ဓါ, အညာသမတိမညိဟံ.

Intoxicated by my complexion and form, by my beauty and my fame, and arrogant with youth, I held other women in contempt.

၇၃.

73.

‘‘ဝိဘူသေတွာ ဣမံ ကာယံ, သုစိတ္တံ ဗာလလာပနံ;

အဋ္ဌာသိံ ဝေသိဒွါရမှိ, လုဒ္ဒေါ ပါသမိဝေါဍ္ဍိယ.

Having adorned this body—so well-adorned, an enticement for fools—I stood at the brothel door, like a hunter setting a snare.

၇၄.

74.

‘‘ပိလန္ဓနံ ဝိဒံသေန္တီ, ဂုယှံ ပကာသိကံ ဗဟုံ;

အကာသိံ ဝိဝိဓံ မာယံ, ဥဇ္ဇဂ္ဃန္တီ ဗဟုံ ဇနံ.

Displaying my ornaments, revealing what was hidden, I worked my many wiles, laughing aloud at many a person.

၇၅.

75.

‘‘သာဇ္ဇ ပိဏ္ဍံ စရိတွာန, မုဏ္ဍာ သံဃာဋိပါရုတာ;

နိသိန္နာ ရုက္ခမူလမှိ, အဝိတက္ကဿ လာဘိနီ.

Today, shaven-headed, wrapped in my outer robe, having wandered for alms and now seated at the foot of a tree, I am an attainer of the state free from thought.

၇၆.

76.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ ယောဂါ သမုစ္ဆိန္နာ, ယေ ဒိဗ္ဗာ ယေ စ မာနုသာ;

ခေပေတွာ အာသဝေ သဗ္ဗေ, သီတိဘူတာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

All yokes are cut asunder—both the divine and the human. Having exhausted all the taints, I have become cooled, utterly extinguished.

… ဝိမလာ ပုရာဏဂဏိကာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Vimalā, formerly a courtesan, spoke these verses.

၃. သီဟာထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of the Elder Sīhā

၇၇.

77.

‘‘အယောနိသော [Pg.389] မနသိကာရာ, ကာမရာဂေန အဋ္ဋိတာ;

အဟောသိံ ဥဒ္ဓတာ ပုဗ္ဗေ, စိတ္တေ အဝသဝတ္တိနီ.

Through improper attention, afflicted by sensual lust, formerly I was restless, my mind not under my control.

၇၈.

78.

‘‘ပရိယုဋ္ဌိတာ က္လေသေဟိ, သုဘသညာနုဝတ္တိနီ;

သမံ စိတ္တဿ န လဘိံ, ရာဂစိတ္တဝသာနုဂါ.

Overwhelmed by defilements, following perceptions of beauty, I did not obtain serenity of mind, following the will of a lustful mind.

၇၉.

79.

‘‘ကိသာ ပဏ္ဍု ဝိဝဏ္ဏာ စ, သတ္တ ဝဿာနိ စာရိဟံ;

နာဟံ ဒိဝါ ဝါ ရတ္တိံ ဝါ, သုခံ ဝိန္ဒိံ သုဒုက္ခိတာ.

Emaciated, pale, and discolored, I wandered for seven years. Being extremely miserable, neither by day nor by night did I find happiness.

၈၀.

80.

‘‘တတော ရဇ္ဇုံ ဂဟေတွာန, ပါဝိသိံ ဝနမန္တရံ;

ဝရံ မေ ဣဓ ဥဗ္ဗန္ဓံ, ယဉ္စ ဟီနံ ပုနာစရေ.

Then, taking a rope, I entered the interior of the forest, thinking: ‘Better for me to hang myself here than to return again to the inferior life.’

၈၁.

81.

‘‘ဒဠှပါသံ ကရိတွာန, ရုက္ခသာခါယ ဗန္ဓိယ;

ပက္ခိပိံ ပါသံ ဂီဝါယံ, အထ စိတ္တံ ဝိမုစ္စိ မေ’’တိ.

Having made a strong noose and tied it to a tree branch, I placed the noose on my neck. Then my mind was liberated.

… သီဟာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Sīhā spoke these verses.

၄. သုန္ဒရီနန္ဒာထေရီဂါထာ

4. The Verses of the Elder Sundarīnandā

၈၂.

82.

‘‘အာတုရံ အသုစိံ ပူတိံ, ပဿ နန္ဒေ သမုဿယံ;

အသုဘာယ စိတ္တံ ဘာဝေဟိ, ဧကဂ္ဂံ သုသမာဟိတံ.

O Nandā, behold this composite body as diseased, impure, and putrid. Develop the mind on the meditation of the unattractive, making it one-pointed and well-composed.

၈၃.

83.

‘‘ယထာ ဣဒံ တထာ ဧတံ, ယထာ ဧတံ တထာ ဣဒံ;

ဒုဂ္ဂန္ဓံ ပူတိကံ ဝါတိ, ဗာလာနံ အဘိနန္ဒိတံ.

As this is, so is that; as that is, so is this. It emits a foul and putrid stench, and is delighted in by fools.

၈၄.

84.

‘‘ဧဝမေတံ အဝေက္ခန္တီ, ရတ္တိန္ဒိဝမတန္ဒိတာ;

တတော သကာယ ပညာယ, အဘိနိဗ္ဗိဇ္ဈ ဒက္ခိသံ.

Observing it in this way, tirelessly day and night, then with my own wisdom, having penetrated it, I shall see.

၈၅.

85.

‘‘တဿာ မေ အပ္ပမတ္တာယ, ဝိစိနန္တိယာ ယောနိသော;

ယထာဘူတံ အယံ ကာယော, ဒိဋ္ဌော သန္တရဗာဟိရော.

For me, being heedful and investigating properly, this body was seen as it truly is, both internally and externally.

၈၆.

86.

‘‘အထ နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒဟံ ကာယေ, အဇ္ဈတ္တဉ္စ ဝိရဇ္ဇဟံ;

အပ္ပမတ္တာ ဝိသံယုတ္တာ, ဥပသန္တာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

Then I grew disenchanted with the body and became dispassionate towards the internal. Being heedful and disjoined, I am at peace, utterly extinguished.

… သုန္ဒရီနန္ဒာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Sundarīnandā spoke these verses.

၅. နန္ဒုတ္တရာထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of the Elder Nanduttarā

၈၇.

87.

‘‘အဂ္ဂိံ စန္ဒဉ္စ သူရိယဉ္စ, ဒေဝတာ စ နမဿိဟံ;

နဒီတိတ္ထာနိ ဂန္တွာန, ဥဒကံ ဩရုဟာမိဟံ.

I paid homage to fire, the moon, the sun, and the deities. Having gone to the river fords, I descended into the water.

၈၈.

88.

‘‘ဗဟူဝတသမာဒါနာ[Pg.390], အဍ္ဎံ သီသဿ ဩလိခိံ;

ဆမာယ သေယျံ ကပ္ပေမိ, ရတ္တိံ ဘတ္တံ န ဘုဉ္ဇဟံ.

Undertaking many vows, I shaved half of my head. I made my bed upon the ground; I did not eat food at night.

၈၉.

89.

‘‘ဝိဘူသာမဏ္ဍနရတာ, နှာပနုစ္ဆာဒနေဟိ စ;

ဥပကာသိံ ဣမံ ကာယံ, ကာမရာဂေန အဋ္ဋိတာ.

Delighting in ornaments and adornments, and in bathing and anointing, I tended to this body, being afflicted by sensual lust.

၉၀.

90.

‘‘တတော သဒ္ဓံ လဘိတွာန, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ;

ဒိသွာ ကာယံ ယထာဘူတံ, ကာမရာဂေါ သမူဟတော.

Then, having gained faith, I went forth into the homeless life. Having seen the body as it truly is, sensual lust has been uprooted.

၉၁.

91.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ ဘဝါ သမုစ္ဆိန္နာ, ဣစ္ဆာ စ ပတ္ထနာပိ စ;

သဗ္ဗယောဂဝိသံယုတ္တာ, သန္တိံ ပါပုဏိ စေတသော’’တိ.

All becomings are cut off; desire and yearning too are cut off. Disjoined from all yokes, I have attained peace of mind.

… နန္ဒုတ္တရာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Nanduttarā spoke these verses.

၆. မိတ္တာကာဠီထေရီဂါထာ

6. The Verses of the Elder Mittākāḷī

၉၂.

92.

‘‘သဒ္ဓါယ ပဗ္ဗဇိတွာန, အဂါရသ္မာနဂါရိယံ;

ဝိစရိံဟံ တေန တေန, လာဘသက္ကာရဥဿုကာ.

Having gone forth with faith from the home life into homelessness, I wandered about for this and that, zealous for gain and honor.

၉၃.

93.

‘‘ရိဉ္စိတွာ ပရမံ အတ္ထံ, ဟီနမတ္ထံ အသေဝိဟံ;

ကိလေသာနံ ဝသံ ဂန္တွာ, သာမညတ္ထံ န ဗုဇ္ဈိဟံ.

Having abandoned the supreme goal, I pursued the inferior goal. Having come under the power of the defilements, I did not understand the purpose of recluseship.

၉၄.

94.

‘‘တဿာ မေ အဟု သံဝေဂေါ, နိသိန္နာယ ဝိဟာရကေ;

ဥမ္မဂ္ဂပဋိပန္နာမှိ, တဏှာယ ဝသမာဂတာ.

For me, while sitting in my dwelling, a sense of spiritual urgency arose: ‘I have entered the wrong path, having come under the power of craving.’

၉၅.

95.

‘‘အပ္ပကံ ဇီဝိတံ မယှံ, ဇရာ ဗျာဓိ စ မဒ္ဒတိ;

ပုရာယံ ဘိဇ္ဇတိ ကာယော, န မေ ကာလော ပမဇ္ဇိတုံ.

My life is short; old age and sickness crush me. Before this body breaks up, there is no time for me to be heedless.

၉၆.

96.

‘‘ယထာဘူတမဝေက္ခန္တီ, ခန္ဓာနံ ဥဒယဗ္ဗယံ;

ဝိမုတ္တစိတ္တာ ဥဋ္ဌာသိံ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသန’’န္တိ.

Observing the arising and passing away of the aggregates as they truly are, with a liberated mind, I arose. The Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

… မိတ္တာ ကာဠီ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Mittākāḷī spoke these verses.

၇. သကုလာထေရီဂါထာ

7. The Verses of the Elder Sakulā

၉၇.

97.

‘‘အဂါရသ္မိံ ဝသန္တီဟံ, ဓမ္မံ သုတွာန ဘိက္ခုနော;

အဒ္ဒသံ ဝိရဇံ ဓမ္မံ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ ပဒမစ္စုတံ.

Dwelling in the household, having heard the Dhamma from a monk, I saw the dustless state, the imperishable Nibbāna.

၉၈.

98.

‘‘သာဟံ ပုတ္တံ ဓီတရဉ္စ, ဓနဓညဉ္စ ဆဍ္ဍိယ;

ကေသေ ဆေဒါပယိတွာန, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ.

That I, having abandoned son and daughter, wealth and grain, and having had my hair cut, went forth into the homeless life.

၉၉.

99.

‘‘သိက္ခမာနာ [Pg.391] အဟံ သန္တီ, ဘာဝေန္တီ မဂ္ဂမဉ္ဇသံ;

ပဟာသိံ ရာဂဒေါသဉ္စ, တဒေကဋ္ဌေ စ အာသဝေ.

While I was a probationer, cultivating the direct path, I abandoned lust and hatred, and the taints that share their foundation.

၁၀၀.

100.

‘‘ဘိက္ခုနီ ဥပသမ္ပဇ္ဇ, ပုဗ္ဗဇာတိမနုဿရိံ;

ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု ဝိသောဓိတံ, ဝိမလံ သာဓုဘာဝိတံ.

Having received full ordination as a nun, I recollected my past lives; the divine eye was purified, spotless, and well-cultivated.

၁၀၁.

101.

‘‘သင်္ခါရေ ပရတော ဒိသွာ, ဟေတုဇာတေ ပလောကိတေ ;

ပဟာသိံ အာသဝေ သဗ္ဗေ, သီတိဘူတာမှိ နိဗ္ဗုတာ’’တိ.

Having seen formations as other, as cause-born and perishable, I abandoned all the taints; I have become cooled, I am extinguished.

… သကုလာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Sakulā uttered these verses.

၈. သောဏာထေရီဂါထာ

8. The Verses of the Elder Nun Soṇā

၁၀၂.

102.

‘‘ဒသ ပုတ္တေ ဝိဇာယိတွာ, အသ္မိံ ရူပသမုဿယေ;

တတောဟံ ဒုဗ္ဗလာ ဇိဏ္ဏာ, ဘိက္ခုနိံ ဥပသင်္ကမိံ.

8. Having given birth to ten sons in this bodily frame, I then, weak and aged, approached a bhikkhunī.

၁၀၃.

103.

‘‘သာ မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ခန္ဓာယတနဓာတုယော;

တဿာ ဓမ္မံ သုဏိတွာန, ကေသေ ဆေတွာန ပဗ္ဗဇိံ.

She taught me the Dhamma—the aggregates, sense bases, and elements. Having heard her Dhamma, I cut off my hair and went forth.

၁၀၄.

104.

‘‘တဿာ မေ သိက္ခမာနာယ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု ဝိသောဓိတံ;

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ဇာနာမိ, ယတ္ထ မေ ဝုသိတံ ပုရေ.

While I was training, the divine eye was purified. I know my past abodes, where I had lived before.

၁၀၅.

105.

‘‘အနိမိတ္တဉ္စ ဘာဝေမိ, ဧကဂ္ဂါ သုသမာဟိတာ;

အနန္တရာဝိမောက္ခာသိံ, အနုပါဒါယ နိဗ္ဗုတာ.

I cultivate the signless, with a mind unified and well-concentrated. I had immediate liberation; without grasping, I am quenched.

၁၀၆.

106.

‘‘ပဉ္စက္ခန္ဓာ ပရိညာတာ, တိဋ္ဌန္တိ ဆိန္နမူလကာ;

ဓိ တဝတ္ထု ဇရေ ဇမ္မေ, နတ္ထိ ဒါနိ ပုနဗ္ဘဝေါ’’တိ.

The five aggregates are fully understood; they stand with their root severed. Fie on you, vile aging! There is now no further becoming for me.

… သောဏာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Soṇā uttered these verses.

၉. ဘဒ္ဒါကုဏ္ဍလကေသာထေရီဂါထာ

9. The Verses of the Elder Nun Bhaddā Kuṇḍalakesā

၁၀၇.

107.

‘‘လူနကေသီ ပင်္ကဓရီ, ဧကသာဋီ ပုရေ စရိံ;

အဝဇ္ဇေ ဝဇ္ဇမတိနီ, ဝဇ္ဇေ စာဝဇ္ဇဒဿိနီ.

With plucked hair, covered in dirt, wearing a single cloth, I wandered in the past, perceiving fault in the faultless, and seeing no fault in the faulty.

၁၀၈.

108.

‘‘ဒိဝါဝိဟာရာ နိက္ခမ္မ, ဂိဇ္ဈကူဋမှိ ပဗ္ဗတေ;

အဒ္ဒသံ ဝိရဇံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဘိက္ခုသံဃပုရက္ခတံ.

9. Coming from my day-abode on Vulture Peak mountain, I saw the Buddha, free from dust, attended by the community of monks.

၁၀၉.

109.

‘‘နိဟစ္စ ဇာဏုံ ဝန္ဒိတွာ, သမ္မုခါ အဉ္ဇလိံ အကံ;

‘ဧဟိ ဘဒ္ဒေ’တိ မံ အဝစ, သာ မေ အာသူပသမ္ပဒါ.

Kneeling down and paying homage, I raised my hands in reverence before him. ‘Come, Bhaddā,’ he said to me; that was my higher ordination.

၁၁၀.

110.

‘‘စိဏ္ဏာ [Pg.392] အင်္ဂါ စ မဂဓာ, ဝဇ္ဇီ ကာသီ စ ကောသလာ;

အနဏာ ပဏ္ဏာသဝဿာနိ, ရဋ္ဌပိဏ္ဍံ အဘုဉ္ဇဟံ.

I have wandered through Aṅga and Magadha, Vajjī, Kāsī, and Kosala. For fifty years, free from debt, I have partaken of the kingdom’s alms-food.

၁၁၁.

111.

‘‘ပုညံ ဝတ ပသဝိ ဗဟုံ, သပ္ပညော ဝတာယံ ဥပါသကော;

ယော ဘဒ္ဒါယ စီဝရံ အဒါသိ, ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တာယ သဗ္ဗဂန္ထေဟီ’’တိ.

Indeed, this layman is truly wise; he has generated much merit, he who gave a robe to Bhaddā, who is liberated from all fetters.

… ဘဒ္ဒါ ကုဏ္ဍလကေသာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Bhaddā Kuṇḍalakesā uttered these verses.

၁၀. ပဋာစာရာထေရီဂါထာ

10. The Verses of the Elder Nun Paṭācārā

၁၁၂.

112.

‘‘နင်္ဂလေဟိ ကသံ ခေတ္တံ, ဗီဇာနိ ပဝပံ ဆမာ;

ပုတ္တဒါရာနိ ပေါသေန္တာ, ဓနံ ဝိန္ဒန္တိ မာဏဝါ.

Plowing the field with plows, sowing seeds upon the earth, supporting their children and wives, men find wealth.

၁၁၃.

113.

‘‘ကိမဟံ သီလသမ္ပန္နာ, သတ္ထုသာသနကာရိကာ;

နိဗ္ဗာနံ နာဓိဂစ္ဆာမိ, အကုသီတာ အနုဒ္ဓတာ.

Why should I, endowed with virtue, a doer of the Teacher’s instruction, diligent and not agitated, not attain Nibbāna?

၁၁၄.

114.

‘‘ပါဒေ ပက္ခာလယိတွာန, ဥဒကေသု ကရောမဟံ;

ပါဒေါဒကဉ္စ ဒိသွာန, ထလတော နိန္နမာဂတံ.

10. Having washed my feet, I observed the water. Seeing the foot-washing water flow from a high place to a low one,

၁၁၅.

115.

‘‘တတော စိတ္တံ သမာဓေသိံ, အဿံ ဘဒြံဝဇာနိယံ;

တတော ဒီပံ ဂဟေတွာန, ဝိဟာရံ ပါဝိသိံ အဟံ;

သေယျံ ဩလောကယိတွာန, မဉ္စကမှိ ဥပါဝိသိံ.

I then concentrated my mind, like a fine thoroughbred horse. Then, taking a lamp, I entered my dwelling; observing the bed, I sat down on the couch.

၁၁၆.

116.

‘‘တတော သူစိံ ဂဟေတွာန, ဝဋ္ဋိံ ဩကဿယာမဟံ;

ပဒီပဿေဝ နိဗ္ဗာနံ, ဝိမောက္ခော အဟု စေတသော’’တိ.

Then, taking a pin, I drew down the wick. Like the quenching of the lamp, there was the liberation of my mind.

… ပဋာစာရာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Paṭācārā uttered these verses.

၁၁. တိံသမတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

11. The Verses of the Thirty Elder Nuns

၁၁၇.

117.

‘‘‘မုသလာနိ ဂဟေတွာန, ဓညံ ကောဋ္ဋေန္တိ မာဏဝါ ;

ပုတ္တဒါရာနိ ပေါသေန္တာ, ဓနံ ဝိန္ဒန္တိ မာဏဝါ.

Taking up pestles, men pound grain; supporting their children and wives, men find wealth.

၁၁၈.

118.

‘‘‘ကရောထ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနံ, ယံ ကတွာ နာနုတပ္ပတိ;

ခိပ္ပံ ပါဒါနိ ဓောဝိတွာ, ဧကမန္တေ နိသီဒထ;

စေတောသမထမနုယုတ္တာ, ကရောထ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနံ’.

Practice the Buddha’s teaching, having done which, one does not regret. Quickly wash your feet and sit to one side. Devoted to the calming of the mind, practice the Buddha’s teaching.

၁၁၉.

119.

‘‘တဿာ တာ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ပဋာစာရာယ သာသနံ;

ပါဒေ ပက္ခာလယိတွာန, ဧကမန္တံ ဥပါဝိသုံ;

စေတောသမထမနုယုတ္တာ, အကံသု ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနံ.

Having heard her words, the instruction of Paṭācārā, they washed their feet and sat to one side. Devoted to the calming of the mind, they practiced the Buddha’s teaching.

၁၂၀.

120.

‘‘ရတ္တိယာ [Pg.393] ပုရိမေ ယာမေ, ပုဗ္ဗဇာတိမနုဿရုံ;

ရတ္တိယာ မဇ္ဈိမေ ယာမေ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခုံ ဝိသောဓယုံ;

ရတ္တိယာ ပစ္ဆိမေ ယာမေ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလယုံ.

11. In the first watch of the night, they recollected their past lives. In the middle watch of the night, they purified the divine eye. In the last watch of the night, they tore asunder the mass of darkness.

၁၂၁.

121.

‘‘ဥဋ္ဌာယ ပါဒေ ဝန္ဒိံသု, ‘ကတာ တေ အနုသာသနီ;

ဣန္ဒံဝ ဒေဝါ တိဒသာ, သင်္ဂါမေ အပရာဇိတံ;

ပုရက္ခတွာ ဝိဟဿာမ, တေဝိဇ္ဇာမှ အနာသဝါ’’’တိ.

Rising, they paid homage at her feet, saying: ‘Your instruction has been followed. As the Tāvatiṃsa gods attend upon Indra, unconquered in battle, so shall we attend upon you. We possess the threefold knowledge and are free from taints.’

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ တိံသမတ္တာ ထေရီ ဘိက္ခုနိယော ပဋာစာရာယ သန္တိကေ အညံ ဗျာကရိံသူတိ.

Thus, indeed, the thirty Elder Bhikkhunīs declared final knowledge in the presence of Paṭācārā.

၁၂. စန္ဒာထေရီဂါထာ

12. The Verses of the Elder Nun Candā

၁၂၂.

122.

‘‘ဒုဂ္ဂတာဟံ ပုရေ အာသိံ, ဝိဓဝါ စ အပုတ္တိကာ;

ဝိနာ မိတ္တေဟိ ဉာတီဟိ, ဘတ္တစောဠဿ နာဓိဂံ.

In the past, I was unfortunate, a widow and childless. Without friends or relatives, I did not obtain food and clothing.

၁၂၃.

123.

‘‘ပတ္တံ ဒဏ္ဍဉ္စ ဂဏှိတွာ, ဘိက္ခမာနာ ကုလာ ကုလံ;

သီတုဏှေန စ ဍယှန္တီ, သတ္တ ဝဿာနိ စာရိဟံ.

Taking a bowl and a staff, begging from family to family, tormented by cold and heat, I wandered for seven years.

၁၂၄.

124.

‘‘ဘိက္ခုနိံ ပုန ဒိသွာန, အန္နပါနဿ လာဘိနိံ;

ဥပသင်္ကမ္မ အဝေါစံ, ‘ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇံ အနဂါရိယံ’.

Then, seeing a bhikkhunī who received food and drink, I approached her and spoke of the going forth into homelessness.

၁၂၅.

125.

‘‘သာ စ မံ အနုကမ္ပာယ, ပဗ္ဗာဇေသိ ပဋာစာရာ;

တတော မံ ဩဝဒိတွာန, ပရမတ္ထေ နိယောဇယိ.

And she, Paṭācārā, out of compassion, gave me the going forth. Then, having advised me, she directed me toward the ultimate goal.

၁၂၆.

126.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, အကာသိံ အနုသာသနိံ;

အမောဃော အယျာယောဝါဒေါ, တေဝိဇ္ဇာမှိ အနာသဝါ’’တိ.

12. Having heard her words, I followed her instruction. The noble lady’s advice was not in vain; I possess the threefold knowledge and am free from taints.

… စန္ဒာ ထေရီ….

Thus the Elder Candā uttered these verses.

ပဉ္စကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Fives is concluded.

၆. ဆက္ကနိပါတော

The Chapter of the Sixes

၁. ပဉ္စသတမတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Five Hundred Elder Nuns

၁၂၇.

127.

‘‘ယဿ [Pg.394] မဂ္ဂံ န ဇာနာသိ, အာဂတဿ ဂတဿ ဝါ;

တံ ကုတော စာဂတံ သတ္တံ, ‘မမ ပုတ္တော’တိ ရောဒသိ.

Of one who has come or gone, you do not know the path. For that being who has come from who knows where, why do you weep, crying, ‘My son’?

၁၂၈.

128.

‘‘မဂ္ဂဉ္စ ခေါဿ ဇာနာသိ, အာဂတဿ ဂတဿ ဝါ;

န နံ သမနုသောစေသိ, ဧဝံဓမ္မာ ဟိ ပါဏိနော.

Even if you knew the path of his coming and his going, you should not grieve for him; for such, indeed, is the nature of living beings.

၁၂၉.

129.

‘‘အယာစိတော တတာဂစ္ဆိ, နာနုညာတော ဣတော ဂတော;

ကုတောစိ နူန အာဂန္တွာ, ဝသိတွာ ကတိပါဟကံ;

ဣတောပိ အညေန ဂတော, တတောပညေန ဂစ္ဆတိ.

Unsolicited he came from there; unpermitted he went from here. Surely, having come from somewhere and stayed for a few days, from here he has gone to another place, and from there he goes to yet another.

၁၃၀.

130.

‘‘ပေတော မနုဿရူပေန, သံသရန္တော ဂမိဿတိ;

ယထာဂတော တထာ ဂတော, ကာ တတ္ထ ပရိဒေဝနာ’’.

Departed from the human realm, wandering on, he will go. As he came, so he has gone—what lamentation is there in that?

၁၃၁.

131.

‘‘အဗ္ဗဟီ ဝတ မေ သလ္လံ, ဒုဒ္ဒသံ ဟဒယဿိတံ;

ယာ မေ သောကပရေတာယ, ပုတ္တသောကံ ဗျပါနုဒိ.

Indeed, the dart has been drawn out from me, so hard to see, lodged in my heart. For me, who was overcome by sorrow, the grief for my son has been dispelled.

၁၃၂.

132.

‘‘သာဇ္ဇ အဗ္ဗူဠှသလ္လာဟံ, နိစ္ဆာတာ ပရိနိဗ္ဗုတာ;

ဗုဒ္ဓံ ဓမ္မဉ္စ သံဃဉ္စ, ဥပေမိ သရဏံ မုနိံ’’.

Today, with the dart drawn out, I am without craving, fully quenched. I go for refuge to the Sage—the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ ပဉ္စသတမတ္တာ ထေရီ ဘိက္ခုနိယော…ပေ….

Thus it is said that five hundred elder nuns…

၂. ဝါသေဋ္ဌီထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Vāseṭṭhī

၁၃၃.

133.

‘‘ပုတ္တသောကေနဟံ အဋ္ဋာ, ခိတ္တစိတ္တာ ဝိသညိနီ;

နဂ္ဂါ ပကိဏ္ဏကေသီ စ, တေန တေန ဝိစာရိဟံ.

Afflicted by sorrow for my son, with a distracted mind and senseless, I was naked with disheveled hair; I wandered here and there.

၁၃၄.

134.

‘‘ဝီထိ သင်္ကာရကူဋေသု, သုသာနေ ရထိယာသု စ;

အစရိံ တီဏိ ဝဿာနိ, ခုပ္ပိပါသာသမပ္ပိတာ.

On rubbish heaps, in cemeteries, and on the streets, I wandered for three years, overcome by hunger and thirst.

၁၃၅.

135.

‘‘အထဒ္ဒသာသိံ သုဂတံ, နဂရံ မိထိလံ ပတိ ;

အဒန္တာနံ ဒမေတာရံ, သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓမကုတောဘယံ.

Then I saw the Well-Gone One journeying towards the city of Mithilā—the Tamer of the untamed, the Fully Enlightened One, fearless from any quarter.

၁၃၆.

136.

‘‘သစိတ္တံ ပဋိလဒ္ဓါန, ဝန္ဒိတွာန ဥပါဝိသိံ;

သော မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, အနုကမ္ပာယ ဂေါတမော.

Having regained my own mind, I paid homage and sat down nearby. Out of compassion, that Gotama taught me the Dhamma.

၁၃၇.

137.

‘‘တဿ [Pg.395] ဓမ္မံ သုဏိတွာန, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ;

ယုဉ္ဇန္တီ သတ္ထုဝစနေ, သစ္ဆာကာသိံ ပဒံ သိဝံ.

Having heard his Dhamma, I went forth into the homeless life. Striving in the Teacher’s word, I realized the blissful state.

၁၃၈.

138.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ သောကာ သမုစ္ဆိန္နာ, ပဟီနာ ဧတဒန္တိကာ;

ပရိညာတာ ဟိ မေ ဝတ္ထူ, ယတော သောကာန သမ္ဘဝေါ’’တိ.

All sorrows are cut off, abandoned, and have come to an end; for the bases from which sorrows arise have been fully understood by me.

… ဝါသေဋ္ဌီ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Vāseṭṭhī….

၃. ခေမာထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of the Elder Khemā

၁၃၉.

139.

‘‘ဒဟရာ တွံ ရူပဝတီ, အဟမ္ပိ ဒဟရော ယုဝါ;

ပဉ္စင်္ဂိကေန တုရိယေန, ဧဟိ ခေမေ ရမာမသေ’’.

“You are young and beautiful, Khemā, and I too am a young man. Come, let us delight in the five-fold music.”

၁၄၀.

140.

‘‘ဣမိနာ ပူတိကာယေန, အာတုရေန ပဘင်္ဂုနာ;

အဋ္ဋိယာမိ ဟရာယာမိ, ကာမတဏှာ သမူဟတာ.

I am vexed and disgusted by this foul body, which is diseased and perishable; craving for sensual pleasures has been uprooted.

၁၄၁.

141.

‘‘သတ္တိသူလူပမာ ကာမာ, ခန္ဓာသံ အဓိကုဋ္ဋနာ;

ယံ ‘တွံ ကာမရတိံ’ ဗြူသိ, ‘အရတီ’ ဒါနိ သာ မမ.

Sensual pleasures are like spears and stakes, a chopping block for the aggregates. What you call ‘sensual delight’ is now non-delight for me.

၁၄၂.

142.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တက.

Delight in all things has been destroyed, the mass of darkness has been shattered. Know this, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker!

၁၄၃.

143.

‘‘နက္ခတ္တာနိ နမဿန္တာ, အဂ္ဂိံ ပရိစရံ ဝနေ;

ယထာဘုစ္စမဇာနန္တာ, ဗာလာ သုဒ္ဓိမမညထ.

Worshipping the constellations and tending the sacred fire in the forest, not knowing reality as it is, fools imagined there was purity.

၁၄၄.

144.

‘‘အဟဉ္စ ခေါ နမဿန္တီ, သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓံ ပုရိသုတ္တမံ;

ပမုတ္တာ သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခေဟိ, သတ္ထုသာသနကာရိကာ’’တိ.

But I, paying homage to the Fully Enlightened One, the supreme among men, am freed from all suffering, having followed the Teacher’s instruction.

… ခေမာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Khemā….

၄. သုဇာတာထေရီဂါထာ

4. The Verses of the Elder Sujātā

၁၄၅.

145.

‘‘အလင်္ကတာ သုဝသနာ, မာလိနီ စန္ဒနောက္ခိတာ;

သဗ္ဗာဘရဏသဉ္ဆန္နာ, ဒါသီဂဏပုရက္ခတာ.

Adorned and finely dressed, wearing garlands and anointed with sandalwood, covered with every ornament, I was attended by a retinue of maidservants.

၁၄၆.

146.

‘‘အန္နံ ပါနဉ္စ အာဒါယ, ခဇ္ဇံ ဘောဇ္ဇံ အနပ္ပကံ;

ဂေဟတော နိက္ခမိတွာန, ဥယျာနမဘိဟာရယိံ.

Taking abundant food and drink, both hard and soft, I departed from my home and went to the park.

၁၄၇.

147.

‘‘တတ္ထ ရမိတွာ ကီဠိတွာ, အာဂစ္ဆန္တီ သကံ ဃရံ;

ဝိဟာရံ ဒဋ္ဌုံ ပါဝိသိံ, သာကေတေ အဉ္ဇနံ ဝနံ.

There, having delighted and played, while returning to my own home, I entered the Añjana Wood at Sāketa to see the monastery.

၁၄၈.

148.

‘‘ဒိသွာန [Pg.396] လောကပဇ္ဇောတံ, ဝန္ဒိတွာန ဥပါဝိသိံ;

သော မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, အနုကမ္ပာယ စက္ခုမာ.

Having seen the Light of the World, I paid homage and sat down nearby. Out of compassion, that Visionary One taught me the Dhamma.

၁၄၉.

149.

‘‘သုတွာ စ ခေါ မဟေသိဿ, သစ္စံ သမ္ပဋိဝိဇ္ဈဟံ;

တတ္ထေဝ ဝိရဇံ ဓမ္မံ, ဖုသယိံ အမတံ ပဒံ.

And having heard the Dhamma of the Great Sage, I penetrated the Truth; right there I attained the stainless, deathless state.

၁၅၀.

150.

‘‘တတော ဝိညာတသဒ္ဓမ္မာ, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, အမောဃံ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသန’’န္တိ.

Then, having understood the true Dhamma, I went forth into the homeless life. The three true knowledges have been attained; the Buddha’s Dispensation is not in vain.

… သုဇာတာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Sujātā….

၅. အနောပမာထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of the Elder Anopamā

၁၅၁.

151.

‘‘ဥစ္စေ ကုလေ အဟံ ဇာတာ, ဗဟုဝိတ္တေ မဟဒ္ဓနေ;

ဝဏ္ဏရူပေန သမ္ပန္နာ, ဓီတာ မဇ္ဈဿ အတြဇာ.

I was born in a high family, of great possessions and immense wealth. Endowed with beauty and fine features, I am the own daughter of the merchant Majjha.

၁၅၂.

152.

‘‘ပတ္ထိတာ ရာဇပုတ္တေဟိ, သေဋ္ဌိပုတ္တေဟိ ဂိဇ္ဈိတာ ;

ပိတု မေ ပေသယီ ဒူတံ, ဒေထ မယှံ အနောပမံ.

Desired by princes and coveted by merchants’ sons, they sent a messenger to my father, saying: ‘Give Anopamā to me.’

၁၅၃.

153.

‘‘ယတ္တကံ တုလိတာ ဧသာ, တုယှံ ဓီတာ အနောပမာ;

တတော အဋ္ဌဂုဏံ ဒဿံ, ဟိရညံ ရတနာနိ စ.

‘Whatever this daughter of yours, Anopamā, is valued at, I will give eight times that amount in gold and precious gems.’

၁၅၄.

154.

‘‘သာဟံ ဒိသွာန သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓံ, လောကဇေဋ္ဌံ အနုတ္တရံ;

တဿ ပါဒါနိ ဝန္ဒိတွာ, ဧကမန္တံ ဥပါဝိသိံ.

But I, having seen the Fully Enlightened One, the world’s most senior, the unsurpassed, paid homage at his feet and sat down to one side.

၁၅၅.

155.

‘‘သော မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, အနုကမ္ပာယ ဂေါတမော;

နိသိန္နာ အာသနေ တသ္မိံ, ဖုသယိံ တတိယံ ဖလံ.

Out of compassion, that Gotama taught me the Dhamma. While seated on that very seat, I attained the third fruit.

၁၅၆.

156.

‘‘တတော ကေသာနိ ဆေတွာန, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ;

အဇ္ဇ မေ သတ္တမီ ရတ္တိ, ယတော တဏှာ ဝိသောသိတာ’’တိ.

Then, having cut off my hair, I went forth into the homeless life. This is now the seventh night since my craving was made to dry up.

… အနောပမာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Anopamā….

၆. မဟာပဇာပတိဂေါတမီထေရီဂါထာ

6. The Verses of the Elder Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī

၁၅၇.

157.

‘‘ဗုဒ္ဓ ဝီရ နမော တျတ္ထု, သဗ္ဗသတ္တာနမုတ္တမ;

ယော မံ ဒုက္ခာ ပမောစေသိ, အညဉ္စ ဗဟုကံ ဇနံ.

Homage to you, O Buddha, O Hero, supreme among all beings! You who have liberated me from suffering, and many other people besides.

၁၅၈.

158.

‘‘သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခံ ပရိညာတံ, ဟေတုတဏှာ ဝိသောသိတာ;

ဘာဝိတော အဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကော မဂ္ဂေါ, နိရောဓော ဖုသိတော မယာ.

All suffering has been fully understood, the cause—craving—has been dried up; the Eightfold Path has been developed, and cessation has been realized by me.

၁၅၉.

159.

‘‘မာတာ [Pg.397] ပုတ္တော ပိတာ ဘာတာ, အယျကာ စ ပုရေ အဟုံ;

ယထာဘုစ္စမဇာနန္တီ, သံသရိံဟံ အနိဗ္ဗိသံ.

Mother, son, father, brother, and grandmother I have been in the past. Not knowing the truth as it is, I wandered on in saṃsāra without a foothold.

၁၆၀.

160.

‘‘ဒိဋ္ဌော ဟိ မေ သော ဘဂဝါ, အန္တိမောယံ သမုဿယော;

ဝိက္ခီဏော ဇာတိသံသာရော, နတ္ထိ ဒါနိ ပုနဗ္ဘဝေါ.

Indeed, that Blessed One has been seen by me; this is my final body. The cycle of birth is exhausted; now there is no further becoming.

၁၆၁.

161.

‘‘အာရဒ္ဓဝီရိယေ ပဟိတတ္တေ, နိစ္စံ ဒဠှပရက္ကမေ;

သမဂ္ဂေ သာဝကေ ပဿေ, ဧသာ ဗုဒ္ဓါန ဝန္ဒနာ.

One should see the disciples who are energetic, resolute, always firm in their exertion, and harmonious—this is homage to the Buddhas.

၁၆၂.

162.

‘‘ဗဟူနံ ဝတ အတ္ထာယ, မာယာ ဇနယိ ဂေါတမံ;

ဗျာဓိမရဏတုန္နာနံ, ဒုက္ခက္ခန္ဓံ ဗျပါနုဒီ’’တိ.

Indeed, for the welfare of many, Māyā gave birth to Gotama. He dispelled the mass of suffering for beings afflicted by sickness and death.

… မဟာပဇာပတိဂေါတမီ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī….

၇. ဂုတ္တာထေရီဂါထာ

7. The Verses of the Elder Guttā

၁၆၃.

163.

‘‘ဂုတ္တေ ယဒတ္ထံ ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇာ, ဟိတွာ ပုတ္တံ ဝသုံ ပိယံ;

တမေဝ အနုဗြူဟေဟိ, မာ စိတ္တဿ ဝသံ ဂမိ.

O Guttā, for the sake of which goal you went forth, having abandoned your beloved son and wealth, cultivate that very goal. Do not fall under the power of the mind.

၁၆၄.

164.

‘‘စိတ္တေန ဝဉ္စိတာ သတ္တာ, မာရဿ ဝိသယေ ရတာ;

အနေကဇာတိသံသာရံ, သန္ဓာဝန္တိ အဝိဒ္ဒသူ.

Beings, deceived by the mind, delight in the domain of Māra. Unwise, they run on through the saṃsāra of many births.

၁၆၅.

165.

‘‘ကာမစ္ဆန္ဒဉ္စ ဗျာပါဒံ, သက္ကာယဒိဋ္ဌိမေဝ စ;

သီလဗ္ဗတပရာမာသံ, ဝိစိကိစ္ဆဉ္စ ပဉ္စမံ.

Sensual desire and ill will, identity view, clinging to rites and rituals, and doubt as the fifth—

၁၆၆.

166.

‘‘သံယောဇနာနိ ဧတာနိ, ပဇဟိတွာန ဘိက္ခုနီ;

ဩရမ္ဘာဂမနီယာနိ, နယိဒံ ပုနရေဟိသိ.

these are the fetters pertaining to the lower realms. Having abandoned them, O nun, you will not come to this world again.

၁၆၇.

167.

‘‘ရာဂံ မာနံ အဝိဇ္ဇဉ္စ, ဥဒ္ဓစ္စဉ္စ ဝိဝဇ္ဇိယ;

သံယောဇနာနိ ဆေတွာန, ဒုက္ခဿန္တံ ကရိဿသိ.

Having forsaken lust, conceit, ignorance, and restlessness, and having cut off these fetters, you will make an end of suffering.

၁၆၈.

168.

‘‘ခေပေတွာ ဇာတိသံသာရံ, ပရိညာယ ပုနဗ္ဘဝံ;

ဒိဋ္ဌေဝ ဓမ္မေ နိစ္ဆာတာ, ဥပသန္တာ စရိဿတီ’’တိ.

Having exhausted the cycle of birth, having fully understood renewed existence, in this very life, free from craving and fully calmed, you will dwell.

… ဂုတ္တာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Guttā …

၈. ဝိဇယာထေရီဂါထာ

8. The Verses of the Elder Vijayā

၁၆၉.

169.

‘‘စတုက္ခတ္တုံ ပဉ္စက္ခတ္တုံ, ဝိဟာရာ ဥပနိက္ခမိံ;

အလဒ္ဓါ စေတသော သန္တိံ, စိတ္တေ အဝသဝတ္တိနီ.

Four times, five times, I went out from my dwelling, not having obtained peace of mind, with my mind not under my control.

၁၇၀.

170.

‘‘ဘိက္ခုနိံ [Pg.398] ဥပသင်္ကမ္မ, သက္ကစ္စံ ပရိပုစ္ဆဟံ;

သာ မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ဓာတုအာယတနာနိ စ.

I approached a nun and questioned her respectfully. She taught me the Dhamma: the elements and the sense bases,

၁၇၁.

171.

‘‘စတ္တာရိ အရိယသစ္စာနိ, ဣန္ဒြိယာနိ ဗလာနိ စ;

ဗောဇ္ဈင်္ဂဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဥတ္တမတ္ထဿ ပတ္တိယာ.

the Four Noble Truths, the faculties and the powers, the factors of enlightenment, and the Eightfold Path, for the attainment of the supreme goal.

၁၇၂.

172.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ကရောန္တီ အနုသာသနိံ;

ရတ္တိယာ ပုရိမေ ယာမေ, ပုဗ္ဗဇာတိမနုဿရိံ.

Having heard her words and following her instruction, in the first watch of the night, I recollected my former lives.

၁၇၃.

173.

‘‘ရတ္တိယာ မဇ္ဈိမေ ယာမေ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခုံ ဝိသောဓယိံ;

ရတ္တိယာ ပစ္ဆိမေ ယာမေ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလယိံ.

In the middle watch of the night, I purified the divine eye; in the last watch of the night, I split asunder the mass of darkness.

၁၇၄.

174.

‘‘ပီတိသုခေန စ ကာယံ, ဖရိတွာ ဝိဟရိံ တဒါ;

သတ္တမိယာ ပါဒေ ပသာရေသိံ, တမောခန္ဓံ ပဒါလိယာ’’တိ.

Then I dwelt, having pervaded my body with rapture and bliss. On the seventh day, having split asunder the mass of darkness, I stretched out my feet.

… ဝိဇယာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Vijayā …

ဆက္ကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Sixes is concluded.

၇. သတ္တကနိပါတော

7. The Chapter of Sevens

၁. ဥတ္တရာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Uttarā

၁၇၅.

175.

‘‘‘မုသလာနိ [Pg.399] ဂဟေတွာန, ဓညံ ကောဋ္ဋေန္တိ မာဏဝါ;

ပုတ္တဒါရာနိ ပေါသေန္တာ, ဓနံ ဝိန္ဒန္တိ မာဏဝါ.

‘Taking up pestles, men pound grain; supporting their sons and wives, these men obtain wealth.

၁၇၆.

176.

‘‘‘ဃဋေထ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနေ, ယံ ကတွာ နာနုတပ္ပတိ;

ခိပ္ပံ ပါဒါနိ ဓောဝိတွာ, ဧကမန္တံ နိသီဒထ.

Strive in the Buddha’s Dispensation, doing that for which there is no regret. Quickly wash your feet and sit down to one side.

၁၇၇.

177.

‘‘‘စိတ္တံ ဥပဋ္ဌပေတွာန, ဧကဂ္ဂံ သုသမာဟိတံ;

ပစ္စဝေက္ခထ သင်္ခါရေ, ပရတော နော စ အတ္တတော’.

Having established the mind, making it one-pointed and well-concentrated, contemplate conditioned phenomena as other, and not as self.’

၁၇၈.

178.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ပဋာစာရာနုသာသနိံ;

ပါဒေ ပက္ခာလယိတွာန, ဧကမန္တေ ဥပါဝိသိံ.

Having heard her words, the instruction of Paṭācārā, I washed my feet and sat down to one side.

၁၇၉.

179.

‘‘ရတ္တိယာ ပုရိမေ ယာမေ, ပုဗ္ဗဇာတိမနုဿရိံ;

ရတ္တိယာ မဇ္ဈိမေ ယာမေ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခုံ ဝိသောဓယိံ.

In the first watch of the night, I recollected my former lives; in the middle watch of the night, I purified the divine eye.

၁၈၀.

180.

‘‘ရတ္တိယာ ပစ္ဆိမေ ယာမေ, တမောက္ခန္ဓံ ပဒါလယိံ;

တေဝိဇ္ဇာ အထ ဝုဋ္ဌာသိံ, ကတာ တေ အနုသာသနီ.

In the last watch of the night, I split asunder the mass of darkness. Then I arose, endowed with the three knowledges. Your instruction has been carried out.

၁၈၁.

181.

‘‘သက္ကံဝ ဒေဝါ တိဒသာ, သင်္ဂါမေ အပရာဇိတံ;

ပုရက္ခတွာ ဝိဟဿာမိ, တေဝိဇ္ဇာမှိ အနာသဝါ’’.

Just as the Tāvatiṃsa devas honor Sakka, who is unconquered in battle, so shall I dwell honoring you. I am endowed with the three knowledges and am free from taints.

… ဥတ္တရာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Uttarā …

၂. စာလာထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Cālā

၁၈၂.

182.

‘‘သတိံ ဥပဋ္ဌပေတွာန, ဘိက္ခုနီ ဘာဝိတိန္ဒြိယာ;

ပဋိဝိဇ္ဈိ ပဒံ သန္တံ, သင်္ခါရူပသမံ သုခံ’’.

Having established mindfulness, a nun with faculties developed penetrated the peaceful state, the bliss of the stilling of formations.

၁၈၃.

183.

‘‘ကံ နု ဥဒ္ဒိဿ မုဏ္ဍာသိ, သမဏီ ဝိယ ဒိဿသိ;

န စ ရောစေသိ ပါသဏ္ဍေ, ကိမိဒံ စရသိ မောမုဟာ’’.

“For whose sake are you shaven-headed? You appear like a female ascetic, yet you do not approve of the sectarians—why do you wander about so confused?”

၁၈၄.

184.

‘‘ဣတော ဗဟိဒ္ဓါ ပါသဏ္ဍာ, ဒိဋ္ဌိယော ဥပနိဿိတာ;

န တေ ဓမ္မံ ဝိဇာနန္တိ, န တေ ဓမ္မဿ ကောဝိဒါ.

“The sectarians outside of this Dispensation rely on their views; they do not know the Dhamma, nor are they skilled in the Dhamma.

၁၈၅.

185.

‘‘အတ္ထိ သကျကုလေ ဇာတော, ဗုဒ္ဓေါ အပ္ပဋိပုဂ္ဂလော;

သော မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ဒိဋ္ဌီနံ သမတိက္ကမံ.

There is one born in the Sakyan clan, the Buddha, who is without peer; he taught me the Dhamma for the overcoming of views:

၁၈၆.

186.

‘‘ဒုက္ခံ [Pg.400] ဒုက္ခသမုပ္ပာဒံ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ အတိက္ကမံ;

အရိယံ စဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဒုက္ခူပသမဂါမိနံ.

Suffering, the origin of suffering, and the overcoming of suffering; and the Noble Eightfold Path that leads to the stilling of suffering.

၁၈၇.

187.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ဝိဟရိံ သာသနေ ရတာ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

Having heard his words, I dwelt delighting in the Dispensation. The three knowledges have been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.

၁၈၈.

188.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တက’’.

“Delight has been destroyed in every respect, the mass of darkness is shattered. Know this, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker.”

… စာလာ ထေရီ….

… Cālā Therī …

၃. ဥပစာလာထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of Upacālā Therī

၁၈၉.

189.

‘‘သတိမတီ စက္ခုမတီ, ဘိက္ခုနီ ဘာဝိတိန္ဒြိယာ;

ပဋိဝိဇ္ဈိံ ပဒံ သန္တံ, အကာပုရိသသေဝိတံ’’.

“Mindful and clear-eyed, a bhikkhunī with faculties developed, I have penetrated the peaceful state, frequented by noble men.”

၁၉၀.

190.

‘‘ကိံ နု ဇာတိံ န ရောစေသိ, ဇာတော ကာမာနိ ဘုဉ္ဇတိ;

ဘုဉ္ဇာဟိ ကာမရတိယော, မာဟု ပစ္ဆာနုတာပိနီ’’.

“Why do you not delight in birth? One who is born enjoys sensual pleasures. Enjoy the delights of sensuality; do not be one who is later regretful.”

၁၉၁.

191.

‘‘ဇာတဿ မရဏံ ဟောတိ, ဟတ္ထပါဒါန ဆေဒနံ;

ဝဓဗန္ဓပရိက္လေသံ, ဇာတော ဒုက္ခံ နိဂစ္ဆတိ.

“For one who is born there is death, and the cutting off of hands and feet; one who is born encounters suffering, such as execution, bondage, and torment.”

၁၉၂.

192.

‘‘အတ္ထိ သကျကုလေ ဇာတော, သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓေါ အပရာဇိတော;

သော မေ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, ဇာတိယာ သမတိက္ကမံ.

“There is one born in the Sakyan clan, the Fully Enlightened One, the Unconquered; he taught me the Dhamma for the overcoming of birth.”

၁၉၃.

193.

‘‘ဒုက္ခံ ဒုက္ခသမုပ္ပာဒံ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ အတိက္ကမံ;

အရိယံ စဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဒုက္ခူပသမဂါမိနံ.

“Suffering, the origin of suffering, and the overcoming of suffering; and the Noble Eightfold Path that leads to the stilling of suffering.”

၁၉၄.

194.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ဝိဟရိံ သာသနေ ရတာ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

“Having heard his words, I dwelt delighting in the Dispensation. The three knowledges have been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.”

၁၉၅.

195.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တက’’.

“Delight has been destroyed in every respect, the mass of darkness is shattered. Know this, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker.”

… ဥပစာလာ ထေရီ….

… Upacālā Therī …

သတ္တကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Sevens is finished.

၈. အဋ္ဌကနိပါတော

8. The Chapter of Eights

၁. သီသူပစာလာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of Sīsūpacālā Therī

၁၉၆.

196.

‘‘ဘိက္ခုနီ [Pg.401] သီလသမ္ပန္နာ, ဣန္ဒြိယေသု သုသံဝုတာ;

အဓိဂစ္ဆေ ပဒံ သန္တံ, အသေစနကမောဇဝံ’’.

“As a bhikkhunī accomplished in virtue, well-restrained in the senses, I have attained the peaceful state, which is perfect and full of essence.”

၁၉၇.

197.

‘‘တာဝတိံသာ စ ယာမာ စ, တုသိတာ စာပိ ဒေဝတာ;

နိမ္မာနရတိနော ဒေဝါ, ယေ ဒေဝါ ဝသဝတ္တိနော;

တတ္ထ စိတ္တံ ပဏီဓေဟိ, ယတ္ထ တေ ဝုသိတံ ပုရေ’’.

“The Tāvatiṃsa and Yāma gods, the Tusita deities, the Nimmānaratī gods, and those gods who wield power over the creations of others—direct your mind there, where you have dwelt before.”

၁၉၈.

198.

‘‘တာဝတိံသာ စ ယာမာ စ, တုသိတာ စာပိ ဒေဝတာ;

နိမ္မာနရတိနော ဒေဝါ, ယေ ဒေဝါ ဝသဝတ္တိနော.

“The Tāvatiṃsa and Yāma gods, the Tusita deities, the Nimmānaratī gods, and those gods who wield power over the creations of others—

၁၉၉.

199.

‘‘ကာလံ ကာလံ ဘဝါဘဝံ, သက္ကာယသ္မိံ ပုရက္ခတာ;

အဝီတိဝတ္တာ သက္ကာယံ, ဇာတိမရဏသာရိနော.

“From time to time, going from one existence to another, attached to their own identity, they do not transcend that identity; they follow the course of birth and death.”

၂၀၀.

200.

‘‘သဗ္ဗော အာဒီပိတော လောကော, သဗ္ဗော လောကော ပဒီပိတော;

သဗ္ဗော ပဇ္ဇလိတော လောကော, သဗ္ဗော လောကော ပကမ္ပိတော.

“The whole world is on fire, the whole world is burning, the whole world is ablaze, the whole world is trembling.”

၂၀၁.

201.

‘‘အကမ္ပိယံ အတုလိယံ, အပုထုဇ္ဇနသေဝိတံ;

ဗုဒ္ဓေါ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, တတ္ထ မေ နိရတော မနော.

“The Buddha taught the Dhamma that is unshakable, incomparable, and not frequented by ordinary people—therein my mind delights.”

၂၀၂.

202.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, ဝိဟရိံ သာသနေ ရတာ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

“Having heard his words, I dwelt delighting in the Dispensation. The three knowledges have been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.”

၂၀၃.

203.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တက’’.

“Delight has been destroyed in every respect, the mass of darkness is shattered. Know this, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker.”

… သီသူပစာလာ ထေရီ….

… Sīsūpacālā Therī …

အဋ္ဌကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Eights is finished.

၉. နဝကနိပါတော

9. The Chapter of Nines

၁. ဝဍ္ဎမာတုထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of Vaḍḍhamātā Therī

၂၀၄.

204.

‘‘မာ [Pg.402] သု တေ ဝဍ္ဎ လောကမှိ, ဝနထော အာဟု ကုဒါစနံ;

မာ ပုတ္တက ပုနပ္ပုနံ, အဟု ဒုက္ခဿ ဘာဂိမာ.

“O Vaḍḍha, may there never be for you, in this world, a thicket of defilements. O son, do not again and again become a partaker of suffering.”

၂၀၅.

205.

‘‘သုခဉှိ ဝဍ္ဎ မုနယော, အနေဇာ ဆိန္နသံသယာ;

သီတိဘူတာ ဒမပ္ပတ္တာ, ဝိဟရန္တိ အနာသဝါ.

“Indeed, Vaḍḍha, the sages dwell happily: unshakeable, their doubts cut off, become cool, having attained self-mastery, and free from cankers.”

၂၀၆.

206.

‘‘တေဟာနုစိဏ္ဏံ ဣသီဘိ, မဂ္ဂံ ဒဿနပတ္တိယာ;

ဒုက္ခဿန္တကိရိယာယ, တွံ ဝဍ္ဎ အနုဗြူဟယ’’.

“O Vaḍḍha, for the attainment of vision, for making an end of suffering, you should cultivate the path followed by those seers.”

၂၀၇.

207.

‘‘ဝိသာရဒါဝ ဘဏသိ, ဧတမတ္ထံ ဇနေတ္တိ မေ;

မညာမိ နူန မာမိကေ, ဝနထော တေ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ’’.

“O mother, you speak this beneficial instruction to me with confidence. I think, my dear mother, that surely for you no thicket of defilements exists.”

၂၀၈.

208.

‘‘ယေ ကေစိ ဝဍ္ဎ သင်္ခါရာ, ဟီနာ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌမဇ္ဈိမာ;

အဏူပိ အဏုမတ္တောပိ, ဝနထော မေ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ.

“Whatever conditioned things there are, Vaḍḍha—inferior, superior, or middling—towards them, for me, not even a subtle or minute thicket of defilements exists.”

၂၀၉.

209.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ မေ အာသဝါ ခီဏာ, အပ္ပမတ္တဿ ဈာယတော;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ’’.

“For me, who meditates diligently, all cankers are destroyed. The three knowledges have been attained; the Buddha’s teaching has been accomplished.”

၂၁၀.

210.

‘‘ဥဠာရံ ဝတ မေ မာတာ, ပတောဒံ သမဝဿရိ;

ပရမတ္ထသဉှိတာ ဂါထာ, ယထာပိ အနုကမ္ပိကာ.

“Truly, my mother has rained down upon me a great goad—verses connected with the highest meaning, just like one who is compassionate.”

၂၁၁.

211.

‘‘တဿာဟံ ဝစနံ သုတွာ, အနုသိဋ္ဌိံ ဇနေတ္တိယာ;

ဓမ္မသံဝေဂမာပါဒိံ, ယောဂက္ခေမဿ ပတ္တိယာ.

“Having heard her speech, the instruction of my mother, I experienced a sense of spiritual urgency for the attainment of security from bondage.”

၂၁၂.

212.

‘‘သောဟံ ပဓာနပဟိတတ္တော, ရတ္တိန္ဒိဝမတန္ဒိတော;

မာတရာ စောဒိတော သန္တော, အဖုသိံ သန္တိမုတ္တမံ’’.

“And so I, with mind resolute in striving, untiring day and night, being urged on by my mother, attained the supreme peace.”

… ဝဍ္ဎမာတာ ထေရီ….

… Vaḍḍhamātā Therī …

နဝကနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Nines is finished.

၁၀. ဧကာဒသနိပါတော

10. The Chapter of Elevens

၁. ကိသာဂေါတမီထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of Kisāgotamī Therī

၂၁၃.

213.

‘‘ကလျာဏမိတ္တတာ [Pg.403] မုနိနာ, လောကံ အာဒိဿ ဝဏ္ဏိတာ;

ကလျာဏမိတ္တေ ဘဇမာနော, အပိ ဗာလော ပဏ္ဍိတော အဿ.

“Good friendship has been praised by the Sage with reference to the world; by associating with good friends, even a fool may become wise.”

၂၁၄.

214.

‘‘ဘဇိတဗ္ဗာ သပ္ပုရိသာ, ပညာ တထာ ဝဍ္ဎတိ ဘဇန္တာနံ;

ဘဇမာနော သပ္ပုရိသေ, သဗ္ဗေဟိပိ ဒုက္ခေဟိ ပမုစ္စေယျ.

“Good people should be associated with; thus the wisdom of those who associate increases. By associating with good people, one may be freed from all sufferings.”

၂၁၅.

215.

‘‘ဒုက္ခဉ္စ ဝိဇာနေယျ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ သမုဒယံ နိရောဓံ;

အဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကဉ္စ မဂ္ဂံ, စတ္တာရိပိ အရိယသစ္စာနိ.

“One should understand suffering, the origin of suffering, its cessation, and the Eightfold Path—these Four Noble Truths.”

၂၁၆.

216.

‘‘ဒုက္ခော ဣတ္ထိဘာဝေါ, အက္ခာတော ပုရိသဒမ္မသာရထိနာ;

သပတ္တိကမ္ပိ ဟိ ဒုက္ခံ, အပ္ပေကစ္စာ သကိံ ဝိဇာတာယော.

“‘Womanhood is suffering,’ has been declared by the Trainer of those to be tamed. Having a co-wife is also suffering. Some women, having given birth but once…”

၂၁၇.

217.

‘‘ဂလကေ အပိ ကန္တန္တိ, သုခုမာလိနိယော ဝိသာနိ ခါဒန္တိ;

ဇနမာရကမဇ္ဈဂတာ, ဥဘောပိ ဗျသနာနိ အနုဘောန္တိ.

“…cut their own throats; delicate women eat poison. Caught in the peril of childbirth, both mother and child experience disaster.”

၂၁၈.

218.

‘‘ဥပဝိဇညာ ဂစ္ဆန္တီ, အဒ္ဒသာဟံ ပတိံ မတံ;

ပန္ထမှိ ဝိဇာယိတွာန, အပ္ပတ္တာဝ သကံ ဃရံ.

“While travelling to give birth, I saw my husband dead. Having given birth on the road, I had not yet reached my own home.”

၂၁၉.

219.

‘‘ဒွေ ပုတ္တာ ကာလကတာ, ပတီ စ ပန္ထေ မတော ကပဏိကာယ;

မာတာ ပိတာ စ ဘာတာ, ဍယှန္တိ စ ဧကစိတကာယံ.

“My two sons are dead, and my husband died on the road—for me, the wretched one. My mother, father, and brother are burning on a single pyre.”

၂၂၀.

220.

‘‘ခီဏကုလီနေ ကပဏေ, အနုဘူတံ တေ ဒုခံ အပရိမာဏံ;

အဿူ စ တေ ပဝတ္တံ, ဗဟူနိ စ ဇာတိသဟဿာနိ.

“O wretched one of a ruined family, you have experienced immeasurable suffering. Your tears have flowed for many thousands of births.”

၂၂၁.

221.

‘‘ဝသိတာ သုသာနမဇ္ဈေ, အထောပိ ခါဒိတာနိ ပုတ္တမံသာနိ;

ဟတကုလိကာ သဗ္ဗဂရဟိတာ, မတပတိကာ အမတမဓိဂစ္ဆိံ.

“I have lived in the midst of a charnel ground, and the flesh of my sons has been eaten. With my family destroyed, scorned by all, and my husband dead, I have attained the Deathless.”

၂၂၂.

222.

‘‘ဘာဝိတော မေ မဂ္ဂေါ, အရိယော အဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကော အမတဂါမီ;

နိဗ္ဗာနံ သစ္ဆိကတံ, ဓမ္မာဒါသံ အဝေက္ခိံဟံ.

“The Noble Eightfold Path leading to the Deathless has been developed by me. Nibbāna has been realized; I have looked into the mirror of the Dhamma.”

၂၂၃.

223.

‘‘အဟမမှိ ကန္တသလ္လာ, ဩဟိတဘာရာ ကတဉှိ ကရဏီယံ;

ကိသာ ဂေါတမီ ထေရီ, ဝိမုတ္တစိတ္တာ ဣမံ ဘဏီ’’တိ.

“I am one with the dart removed, the burden laid down; what was to be done has been done.” The Elder Kisāgotamī, with a well-liberated mind, spoke this.

… ကိသာ ဂေါတမီ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Kisāgotamī…

ဧကာဒသနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of Elevens is concluded.

၁၁. ဒွါဒသကနိပါတော

11. The Chapter of the Twelves

၁. ဥပ္ပလဝဏ္ဏာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Uppalavaṇṇā

၂၂၄.

224.

‘‘ဥဘော [Pg.404] မာတာ စ ဓီတာ စ, မယံ အာသုံ သပတ္တိယော;

တဿာ မေ အဟု သံဝေဂေါ, အဗ္ဘုတော လောမဟံသနော.

“Both mother and daughter, we were co-wives. For me, there arose a sense of spiritual urgency, unprecedented and hair-raising.”

၂၂၅.

225.

‘‘ဓိရတ္ထု ကာမာ အသုစီ, ဒုဂ္ဂန္ဓာ ဗဟုကဏ္ဋကာ;

ယတ္ထ မာတာ စ ဓီတာ စ, သဘရိယာ မယံ အဟုံ.

“Fie on sensual pleasures—impure, foul-smelling, and full of thorns—wherein we, mother and daughter, became co-wives.”

၂၂၆.

226.

‘‘ကာမေသွာဒီနဝံ ဒိသွာ, နေက္ခမ္မံ ဒဋ္ဌု ခေမတော;

သာ ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇိံ ရာဇဂဟေ, အဂါရသ္မာနဂါရိယံ.

“Having seen the danger in sensual pleasures, and having seen renunciation as safety, I went forth in Rājagaha from the household life into homelessness.”

၂၂၇.

227.

‘‘ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ဇာနာမိ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခုံ ဝိသောဓိတံ;

စေတောပရိစ္စဉာဏဉ္စ, သောတဓာတု ဝိသောဓိတာ.

“I know my past abodes; the divine eye is purified. The knowledge of others’ minds and the element of hearing are purified.”

၂၂၈.

228.

‘‘ဣဒ္ဓီပိ မေ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ပတ္တော မေ အာသဝက္ခယော;

ဆဠဘိညာ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

“Psychic power has also been realized by me; the destruction of the taints has been attained by me. The six supernormal knowledges have been realized; the Buddha’s teaching has been fulfilled.”

၂၂၉.

229.

‘‘ဣဒ္ဓိယာ အဘိနိမ္မိတွာ, စတုရဿံ ရထံ အဟံ;

ဗုဒ္ဓဿ ပါဒေ ဝန္ဒိတွာ, လောကနာထဿ တာဒိနော’’.

“Having created by psychic power a chariot drawn by four horses, I paid homage at the feet of the Buddha, the Protector of the World, the Steadfast One.”

၂၃၀.

230.

‘‘သုပုပ္ဖိတဂ္ဂံ ဥပဂမ္မ ပါဒပံ, ဧကာ တုဝံ တိဋ္ဌသိ သာလမူလေ ;

န စာပိ တေ ဒုတိယော အတ္ထိ ကောစိ, န တွံ ဗာလေ ဘာယသိ ဓုတ္တကာနံ’’.

“Having approached a tree with a fully blossomed top, you stand alone at the foot of a Sāla tree. You have no companion whatsoever; foolish girl, are you not afraid of profligates?”

၂၃၁.

231.

‘‘သတံ သဟဿာနိပိ ဓုတ္တကာနံ, သမာဂတာ ဧဒိသကာ ဘဝေယျုံ;

လောမံ န ဣဉ္ဇေ နပိ သမ္ပဝေဓေ, ကိံ မေ တုဝံ မာရ ကရိဿသေကော.

“Even if a hundred thousand profligates such as you were to gather together, not a single hair of mine would stir, nor would I tremble. O Māra, what can you, all alone, do to me?”

၂၃၂.

232.

‘‘ဧသာ အန္တရဓာယာမိ, ကုစ္ဆိံ ဝါ ပဝိသာမိ တေ;

ဘမုကန္တရေ တိဋ္ဌာမိ, တိဋ္ဌန္တိံ မံ န ဒက္ခသိ.

“Behold, I shall vanish, or I shall enter your belly. I can stand between your eyebrows, yet you will not see me standing there.”

၂၃၃.

233.

‘‘စိတ္တမှိ [Pg.405] ဝသီဘူတာဟံ, ဣဒ္ဓိပါဒါ သုဘာဝိတာ;

ဆဠဘိညာ သစ္ဆိကတာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

“I have gained mastery over my mind; the bases of psychic power are well-developed. The six supernormal knowledges have been realized; the Buddha’s teaching has been fulfilled.”

၂၃၄.

234.

‘‘သတ္တိသူလူပမာ ကာမာ, ခန္ဓာသံ အဓိကုဋ္ဋနာ;

ယံ တွံ ‘ကာမရတိံ’ ဗြူသိ, ‘အရတီ’ ဒါနိ သာ မမ.

“Sensual pleasures are like spears and stakes; they are a chopping block for the aggregates. That which you call ‘sensual delight’ is now non-delight for me.”

၂၃၅.

235.

‘‘သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိဟတာ နန္ဒီ, တမောခန္ဓော ပဒါလိတော;

ဧဝံ ဇာနာဟိ ပါပိမ, နိဟတော တွမသိ အန္တကာ’’တိ.

“Delight has been destroyed everywhere; the mass of darkness has been shattered. Know this, O Evil One: you are defeated, O End-maker!”

… ဥပ္ပလဝဏ္ဏာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Uppalavaṇṇā…

ဒွါဒသနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Twelves is concluded.

၁၂. သောဠသနိပါတော

12. The Chapter of the Sixteens

၁. ပုဏ္ဏာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Puṇṇā

၂၃၆.

236.

‘‘ဥဒဟာရီ [Pg.406] အဟံ သီတေ, သဒါ ဥဒကမောတရိံ;

အယျာနံ ဒဏ္ဍဘယဘီတာ, ဝါစာဒေါသဘယဋ္ဋိတာ.

“I was a water-carrier; in the cold, I always went down into the water, fearful of punishment from my mistresses, afflicted by the fear of their angry words.”

၂၃၇.

237.

‘‘ကဿ ဗြာဟ္မဏ တွံ ဘီတော, သဒါ ဥဒကမောတရိ;

ဝေဓမာနေဟိ ဂတ္တေဟိ, သီတံ ဝေဒယသေ ဘုသံ’’.

“O Brahmin, of what are you afraid that you always go down into the water? With trembling limbs, you experience the intense cold.”

၂၃၈.

238.

ဇာနန္တီ ဝတ မံ ဘောတိ, ပုဏ္ဏိကေ ပရိပုစ္ဆသိ;

ကရောန္တံ ကုသလံ ကမ္မံ, ရုန္ဓန္တံ ကတပါပကံ.

“O lady Puṇṇikā, though you know, you still ask me, one who is doing wholesome kamma and restraining evil kamma that has been done.”

၂၃၉.

239.

‘‘ယော စ ဝုဍ္ဎော ဒဟရော ဝါ, ပါပကမ္မံ ပကုဗ္ဗတိ;

ဒကာဘိသေစနာ သောပိ, ပါပကမ္မာ ပမုစ္စတိ’’.

“Whoever, whether old or young, commits an evil deed, is also freed from that evil kamma by ablution with water.”

၂၄၀.

240.

‘‘ကော နု တေ ဣဒမက္ခာသိ, အဇာနန္တဿ အဇာနကော;

ဒကာဘိသေစနာ နာမ, ပါပကမ္မာ ပမုစ္စတိ.

“Who, being ignorant, told this to you who are also ignorant: that one is truly freed from evil kamma by ablution with water?”

၂၄၁.

241.

‘‘သဂ္ဂံ နူန ဂမိဿန္တိ, သဗ္ဗေ မဏ္ဍူကကစ္ဆပါ;

နာဂါ စ သုသုမာရာ စ, ယေ စညေ ဥဒကေ စရာ.

“Surely then, all frogs and turtles, nāgas and crocodiles, and whatever other creatures dwell in the water, will go to heaven.”

၂၄၂.

242.

‘‘ဩရဗ္ဘိကာ သူကရိကာ, မစ္ဆိကာ မိဂဗန္ဓကာ;

စောရာ စ ဝဇ္ဈဃာတာ စ, ယေ စညေ ပါပကမ္မိနော;

ဒကာဘိသေစနာ တေပိ, ပါပကမ္မာ ပမုစ္စရေ.

“Butchers of sheep and pigs, fishermen and hunters, thieves and executioners, and any others who are evil-doers—they too would be freed from their evil kamma by ablution with water.”

၂၄၃.

243.

‘‘သစေ ဣမာ နဒိယော တေ, ပါပံ ပုဗ္ဗေ ကတံ ဝဟုံ;

ပုညမ္ပိမာ ဝဟေယျုံ တေ, တေန တွံ ပရိဗာဟိရော.

“If these rivers could carry away the evil you have previously done, they would also carry away your merit. By that, you would be left bereft.”

၂၄၄.

244.

‘‘ယဿ ဗြာဟ္မဏ တွံ ဘီတော, သဒါ ဥဒကမောတရိ;

တမေဝ ဗြဟ္မေ မာ ကာသိ, မာ တေ သီတံ ဆဝိံ ဟနေ’’.

“O Brahmin, that very thing you fear, on account of which you always go down into the water—do not do it, Brahmin! Let not the cold injure your skin.”

၂၄၅.

245.

‘‘ကုမ္မဂ္ဂပဋိပန္နံ မံ, အရိယမဂ္ဂံ သမာနယိ;

ဒကာဘိသေစနာ ဘောတိ, ဣမံ သာဋံ ဒဒါမိ တေ’’.

“You have led me, who had entered upon a wrong path, to the noble path. O lady, I who was devoted to purification by water give this robe to you.”

၂၄၆.

246.

‘‘တုယှေဝ သာဋကော ဟောတု, နာဟမိစ္ဆာမိ သာဋကံ;

သစေ ဘာယသိ ဒုက္ခဿ, သစေ တေ ဒုက္ခမပ္ပိယံ.

Let the cloth be yours; I do not desire the cloth. If you are afraid of suffering, if suffering is displeasing to you,

၂၄၇.

247.

‘‘မာကာသိ [Pg.407] ပါပကံ ကမ္မံ, အာဝိ ဝါ ယဒိ ဝါ ရဟော;

သစေ စ ပါပကံ ကမ္မံ, ကရိဿသိ ကရောသိ ဝါ.

Do not do evil kamma, either openly or in secret. And if you will do or are doing evil kamma,

၂၄၈.

248.

‘‘န တေ ဒုက္ခာ ပမုတျတ္ထိ, ဥပေစ္စာပိ ပလာယတော;

သစေ ဘာယသိ ဒုက္ခဿ, သစေ တေ ဒုက္ခမပ္ပိယံ.

There is no escape from suffering for you, even if you flee by flying away. If you fear suffering, if suffering is displeasing to you,

၂၄၉.

249.

‘‘ဥပေဟိ သရဏံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဓမ္မံ သံဃဉ္စ တာဒိနံ;

သမာဒိယာဟိ သီလာနိ, တံ တေ အတ္ထာယ ဟေဟိတိ’’.

Go for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, who are unshaken; undertake the precepts, for that will be for your welfare.

၂၅၀.

250.

‘‘ဥပေမိ သရဏံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဓမ္မံ သံဃဉ္စ တာဒိနံ;

သမာဒိယာမိ သီလာနိ, တံ မေ အတ္ထာယ ဟေဟိတိ.

I go for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, who are unshaken. I undertake the precepts; that will be for my benefit.

၂၅၁.

251.

‘‘ဗြဟ္မဗန္ဓု ပုရေ အာသိံ, အဇ္ဇမှိ သစ္စဗြာဟ္မဏော;

တေဝိဇ္ဇော ဝေဒသမ္ပန္နော, သောတ္တိယော စမှိ နှာတကော’’တိ.

Formerly I was a kinsman of Brahmā; today I am a true brahmin. I possess the three knowledges, am accomplished in the supreme knowledge, am cleansed, and am one who has bathed away evil.

… ပုဏ္ဏာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Puṇṇā…

သောဠသနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Sixteens is concluded.

၁၃. ဝီသတိနိပါတော

13. The Chapter of the Twenties

၁. အမ္ဗပါလီထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Ambapālī

၂၅၂.

252.

‘‘ကာဠကာ [Pg.408] ဘမရဝဏ္ဏသာဒိသာ, ဝေလ္လိတဂ္ဂါ မမ မုဒ္ဓဇာ အဟုံ;

တေ ဇရာယ သာဏဝါကသာဒိသာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

My hair was once black, like the color of bees, with curled ends; now, with old age, it is like hemp fibers. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၃.

253.

‘‘ဝါသိတောဝ သုရဘီ ကရဏ္ဍကော, ပုပ္ဖပူရ မမ ဥတ္တမင်္ဂဇော.

Like a fragrant, perfumed casket, my coiffure was filled with flowers.

တံ ဇရာယထ သလောမဂန္ဓိကံ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Now, with old age, it has the rank smell of hair. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၄.

254.

‘‘ကာနနံဝ သဟိတံ သုရောပိတံ, ကောစ္ဆသူစိဝိစိတဂ္ဂသောဘိတံ;

တံ ဇရာယ ဝိရလံ တဟိံ တဟိံ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Like a dense, well-planted grove, its ends adorned with combs and pins, so was my hair beautiful; now, with old age, it is sparse here and there. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၅.

255.

‘‘ကဏှခန္ဓကသုဝဏ္ဏမဏ္ဍိတံ, သောဘတေ သုဝေဏီဟိလင်္ကတံ;

တံ ဇရာယ ခလိတံ သိရံ ကတံ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Adorned with gold upon its black tresses, graced with beautiful braids, my head once shone; now, with old age, it has been made bald. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၆.

256.

‘‘စိတ္တကာရသုကတာဝ လေခိကာ, သောဘရေ သု ဘမုကာ ပုရေ မမ;

တာ ဇရာယ ဝလိဘိပ္ပလမ္ဗိတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly my eyebrows were beautiful, like lines skillfully drawn by a painter; now, with old age, they hang down with wrinkles. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၇.

257.

‘‘ဘဿရာ သုရုစိရာ ယထာ မဏီ, နေတ္တဟေသုမဘိနီလမာယတာ;

တေ ဇရာယဘိဟတာ န သောဘရေ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Radiant and very lovely like a gem, my eyes were once deep blue and long; now, afflicted by old age, they no longer shine. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၈.

258.

‘‘သဏှတုင်္ဂသဒိသီ [Pg.409] စ နာသိကာ, သောဘတေ သု အဘိယောဗ္ဗနံ ပတိ;

သာ ဇရာယ ဥပကူလိတာ ဝိယ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Fine and prominent, my nose was beautiful in my youth; now, with old age, it is as if shriveled. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၅၉.

259.

‘‘ကင်္ကဏံ ဝ သုကတံ သုနိဋ္ဌိတံ, သောဘရေ သု မမ ကဏ္ဏပါဠိယော;

တာ ဇရာယ ဝလိဘိပ္ပလမ္ဗိတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Like well-wrought, finely finished bracelets, my earlobes were once beautiful; now, with old age, they hang down with wrinkles. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၀.

260.

‘‘ပတ္တလီမကုလဝဏ္ဏသာဒိသာ, သောဘရေ သု ဒန္တာ ပုရေ မမ;

တေ ဇရာယ ခဏ္ဍိတာ စာသိတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Once my teeth were beautiful, like trumpet-flower buds; now, with old age, they are broken and discolored. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၁.

261.

‘‘ကာနနမှိ ဝနသဏ္ဍစာရိနီ, ကောကိလာဝ မဓုရံ နိကူဇိဟံ;

တံ ဇရာယ ခလိတံ တဟိံ တဟိံ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Like a cuckoo wandering in a forest grove, I once cooed sweetly; now, with old age, my voice falters here and there. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၂.

262.

‘‘သဏှကမ္ဗုရိဝ သုပ္ပမဇ္ဇိတာ, သောဘတေ သု ဂီဝါ ပုရေ မမ;

သာ ဇရာယ ဘဂ္ဂါ ဝိနာမိတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Like a smooth, well-polished conch, my neck was once beautiful; now, with old age, it is broken and bent. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၃.

263.

‘‘ဝဋ္ဋပလိဃသဒိသောပမာ ဥဘော, သောဘရေ သု ဗာဟာ ပုရေ မမ;

တာ ဇရာယ ယထ ပါဋလိဗ္ဗလိတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly, both my arms were beautiful, like polished, rounded crossbars; now, with old age, they are like the withered branches of a trumpet-flower tree. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၄.

264.

‘‘သဏှမုဒ္ဒိကသုဝဏ္ဏမဏ္ဍိတာ, သောဘရေ သု ဟတ္ထာ ပုရေ မမ;

တေ ဇရာယ ယထာ မူလမူလိကာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly my hands were beautiful, adorned with fine golden rings; now, with old age, they are like gnarled roots. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၅.

265.

‘‘ပီနဝဋ္ဋသဟိတုဂ္ဂတာ [Pg.410] ဥဘော, သောဘရေ သု ထနကာ ပုရေ မမ;

ထေဝိကီဝ လမ္ဗန္တိ နောဒကာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly my breasts were beautiful, plump, round, close-set, and high; now they hang down like empty water bags. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၆.

266.

‘‘ကဉ္စနဿဖလကံဝ သမ္မဋ္ဌံ, သောဘတေ သု ကာယော ပုရေ မမ;

သော ဝလီဟိ သုခုမာဟိ ဩတတော, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly my body shone, like a well-polished golden plank; now it is covered with a web of fine wrinkles. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၇.

267.

‘‘နာဂဘောဂသဒိသောပမာ ဥဘော, သောဘရေ သု ဦရူ ပုရေ မမ;

တေ ဇရာယ ယထာ ဝေဠုနာဠိယော, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly both my thighs were beautiful, like an elephant's trunk; now, with old age, they are like bamboo stalks. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၈.

268.

‘‘သဏှနူပုရသုဝဏ္ဏမဏ္ဍိတာ, သောဘရေ သု ဇင်္ဃာ ပုရေ မမ;

တာ ဇရာယ တိလဒဏ္ဍကာရိဝ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly my shanks were beautiful, adorned with fine golden anklets; now, with old age, they are like sesame stalks. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၆၉.

269.

‘‘တူလပုဏ္ဏသဒိသောပမာ ဥဘော, သောဘရေ သု ပါဒါ ပုရေ မမ;

တေ ဇရာယ ဖုဋိတာ ဝလီမတာ, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ.

Formerly both my feet were beautiful, soft as if filled with cotton; now, with old age, they are cracked and wrinkled. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

၂၇၀.

270.

‘‘ဧဒိသော အဟု အယံ သမုဿယော, ဇဇ္ဇရော ဗဟုဒုက္ခာနမာလယော;

သောပလေပပတိတော ဇရာဃရော, သစ္စဝါဒိဝစနံ အနညထာ’’.

Such has this body become: decrepit, a home for many pains, an old house with its plaster fallen away. The word of the Speaker of Truth is not otherwise.

… အမ္ဗပါလီ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Ambapālī…

၂. ရောဟိနီထေရီဂါထာ

2. The Verses of the Elder Rohinī

၂၇၁.

271.

‘‘‘သမဏာ’တိ ဘောတိ သုပိ, ‘သမဏာ’တိ ပဗုဇ္ဈသိ ;

သမဏာနေဝ ကိတ္တေသိ, သမဏီ နူန ဘဝိဿသိ.

‘Ascetics,’ dear lady, you say as you sleep; ‘ascetics,’ as you awaken. You praise only ascetics; surely you will become an ascetic nun.

၂၇၂.

272.

‘‘ဝိပုလံ [Pg.411] အန္နဉ္စ ပါနဉ္စ, သမဏာနံ ပဝေစ္စသိ ;

ရောဟိနီ ဒါနိ ပုစ္ဆာမိ, ကေန တေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

You provide abundant food and drink to the ascetics. Rohinī, now I ask you: for what reason are the ascetics dear to you?

၂၇၃.

273.

‘‘အကမ္မကာမာ အလသာ, ပရဒတ္တူပဇီဝိနော;

အာသံသုကာ သာဒုကာမာ, ကေန တေ သမဏာ ပိယာ’’.

Unwilling to work, lazy, living on what is given by others, expectant of gifts, and fond of fine flavors—for what reason are these ascetics dear to you?

၂၇၄.

274.

‘‘စိရဿံ ဝတ မံ တာတ, သမဏာနံ ပရိပုစ္ဆသိ;

တေသံ တေ ကိတ္တယိဿာမိ, ပညာသီလပရက္ကမံ.

Indeed, Father, after a long time you ask me about the ascetics. I shall proclaim to you their wisdom, virtue, and effort.

၂၇၅.

275.

‘‘ကမ္မကာမာ အနလသာ, ကမ္မသေဋ္ဌဿ ကာရကာ;

ရာဂံ ဒေါသံ ပဇဟန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They are willing to work, not lazy, doers of the noblest work. They abandon lust and hatred; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၇၆.

276.

‘‘တီဏိ ပါပဿ မူလာနိ, ဓုနန္တိ သုစိကာရိနော;

သဗ္ဗံ ပါပံ ပဟီနေသံ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They shake off the three roots of evil, those who act with purity; all evil has been abandoned by them. For that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၇၇.

277.

‘‘ကာယကမ္မံ သုစိ နေသံ, ဝစီကမ္မဉ္စ တာဒိသံ;

မနောကမ္မံ သုစိ နေသံ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

Their bodily action is pure, and their verbal action is likewise; their mental action is pure. For that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၇၈.

278.

‘‘ဝိမလာ သင်္ခမုတ္တာဝ, သုဒ္ဓါ သန္တရဗာဟိရာ;

ပုဏ္ဏာ သုက္ကာန ဓမ္မာနံ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

Stainless like a polished conch shell, pure within and without, they are full of pure qualities. For that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၇၉.

279.

‘‘ဗဟုဿုတာ ဓမ္မဓရာ, အရိယာ ဓမ္မဇီဝိနော;

အတ္ထံ ဓမ္မဉ္စ ဒေသေန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They are of great learning, bearers of the Dhamma, noble, living righteously. They teach the meaning and the text; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၀.

280.

‘‘ဗဟုဿုတာ ဓမ္မဓရာ, အရိယာ ဓမ္မဇီဝိနော;

ဧကဂ္ဂစိတ္တာ သတိမန္တော, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They are of great learning, bearers of the Dhamma, noble, living righteously. They have unified minds and are mindful; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၁.

281.

‘‘ဒူရင်္ဂမာ သတိမန္တော, မန္တဘာဏီ အနုဒ္ဓတာ;

ဒုက္ခဿန္တံ ပဇာနန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They go far, are mindful, speak wisely, and are not restless. They directly know the end of suffering; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၂.

282.

‘‘ယသ္မာ ဂါမာ ပက္ကမန္တိ, န ဝိလောကေန္တိ ကိဉ္စနံ;

အနပေက္ခာဝ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

From whichever village they depart, they do not look back at anything; they go without longing; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၃.

283.

‘‘န တေသံ ကောဋ္ဌေ ဩပေန္တိ, န ကုမ္ဘိံ န ခဠောပိယံ;

ပရိနိဋ္ဌိတမေသာနာ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They do not store things in a granary, nor in a pot, nor in a basket. They seek only what has been prepared; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၄.

284.

‘‘န တေ ဟိရညံ ဂဏှန္တိ, န သုဝဏ္ဏံ န ရူပိယံ;

ပစ္စုပ္ပန္နေန ယာပေန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ.

They do not accept gold, nor bullion, nor silver. They sustain themselves with what is at hand; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၅.

285.

‘‘နာနာကုလာ [Pg.412] ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ, နာနာဇနပဒေဟိ စ;

အညမညံ ပိယာယန္တိ, တေန မေ သမဏာ ပိယာ’’.

Having gone forth from various families and from various regions, they cherish one another; for that reason, the ascetics are dear to me.

၂၈၆.

286.

‘‘အတ္ထာယ ဝတ နော ဘောတိ, ကုလေ ဇာတာသိ ရောဟိနီ;

သဒ္ဓါ ဗုဒ္ဓေ စ ဓမ္မေ စ, သံဃေ စ တိဗ္ဗဂါရဝါ.

Indeed, dear Rohinī, you were born into our family for our welfare. You have faith in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, and have strong reverence.

၂၈၇.

287.

‘‘တုဝံ ဟေတံ ပဇာနာသိ, ပုညက္ခေတ္တံ အနုတ္တရံ;

အမှမ္ပိ ဧတေ သမဏာ, ပဋိဂဏှန္တိ ဒက္ခိဏံ’’.

You indeed know this unsurpassed field of merit. These ascetics accept our offerings as well.

၂၈၈.

288.

‘‘ပတိဋ္ဌိတော ဟေတ္ထ ယညော, ဝိပုလော နော ဘဝိဿတိ;

သစေ ဘာယသိ ဒုက္ခဿ, သစေ တေ ဒုက္ခမပ္ပိယံ.

An offering established in them will be of vast result for us. If you are afraid of suffering, if suffering is not dear to you,

၂၈၉.

289.

‘‘ဥပေဟိ သရဏံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဓမ္မံ သံဃဉ္စ တာဒိနံ;

သမာဒိယာဟိ သီလာနိ, တံ တေ အတ္ထာယ ဟေဟိတိ’’.

Go for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha of such a nature. Undertake the precepts; that will be for your welfare.

၂၉၀.

290.

‘‘ဥပေမိ သရဏံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဓမ္မံ သံဃဉ္စ တာဒိနံ;

သမာဒိယာမိ သီလာနိ, တံ မေ အတ္ထာယ ဟေဟိတိ.

I go for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha of such a nature. I undertake the precepts; that will be for my welfare.

၂၉၁.

291.

‘‘ဗြဟ္မဗန္ဓု ပုရေ အာသိံ, သော ဣဒါနိမှိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

တေဝိဇ္ဇော သောတ္တိယော စမှိ, ဝေဒဂူ စမှိ နှာတကော’’.

Formerly, I was a kinsman of Brahmā; now, I am a true brahmin. I am one who possesses the three true knowledges, I am pure, I have reached the final goal, and I am one who has washed away evil.

… ရောဟိနီ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Nun Rohinī …

၃. စာပါထေရီဂါထာ

3. The Verses of the Elder Nun Cāpā

၂၉၂.

292.

‘‘လဋ္ဌိဟတ္ထော ပုရေ အာသိ, သော ဒါနိ မိဂလုဒ္ဒကော;

အာသာယ ပလိပါ ဃောရာ, နာသက္ခိ ပါရမေတဝေ.

Formerly, I was a wandering ascetic with staff in hand; now, I have become a deer hunter. Due to craving, from the terrible mire, I was unable to reach the further shore.

၂၉၃.

293.

‘‘သုမတ္တံ မံ မညမာနာ, စာပါ ပုတ္တမတောသယိ;

စာပါယ ဗန္ဓနံ ဆေတွာ, ပဗ္ဗဇိဿံ ပုနောပဟံ.

Thinking me greatly infatuated, Cāpā provoked me with our son. Having cut the bond to Cāpā, I will go forth once again.

၂၉၄.

294.

‘‘မာ မေ ကုဇ္ဈိ မဟာဝီရ, မာ မေ ကုဇ္ဈိ မဟာမုနိ;

န ဟိ ကောဓပရေတဿ, သုဒ္ဓိ အတ္ထိ ကုတော တပေါ.

Do not be angry with me, great hero; do not be angry with me, great sage. For one overcome by anger, there is no purity; how then could there be austerity?

၂၉၅.

295.

‘‘ပက္ကမိဿဉ္စ နာဠာတော, ကောဓ နာဠာယ ဝစ္ဆတိ;

ဗန္ဓန္တီ ဣတ္ထိရူပေန, သမဏေ ဓမ္မဇီဝိနော’’.

I will certainly depart from Nāḷa; who then will remain in Nāḷa? You bind with your womanly form ascetics who live righteously.

၂၉၆.

296.

‘‘ဧဟိ ကာဠ နိဝတ္တဿု, ဘုဉ္ဇ ကာမေ ယထာ ပုရေ;

အဟဉ္စ တေ ဝသီကတာ, ယေ စ မေ သန္တိ ဉာတကာ’’.

Come, Kāḷa, turn back! Enjoy sensual pleasures as before. I and all my relatives will be under your control.

၂၉၇.

297.

‘‘ဧတ္တော [Pg.413] စာပေ စတုဗ္ဘာဂံ, ယထာ ဘာသသိ တွဉ္စ မေ;

တယိ ရတ္တဿ ပေါသဿ, ဥဠာရံ ဝတ တံ သိယာ’’.

O Cāpā, if you were to speak to me words four times more endearing than this, for a man infatuated with you, that would indeed be a great thing.

၂၉၈.

298.

‘‘ကာဠင်္ဂိနိံဝ တက္ကာရိံ, ပုပ္ဖိတံ ဂိရိမုဒ္ဓနိ;

ဖုလ္လံ ဒါလိမလဋ္ဌိံဝ, အန္တောဒီပေဝ ပါဋလိံ.

Like a dark-limbed takkārī tree, flowering on a mountain peak; like a blooming pomegranate branch, like a pāṭalī tree on an island.

၂၉၉.

299.

‘‘ဟရိစန္ဒနလိတ္တင်္ဂိံ, ကာသိကုတ္တမဓာရိနိံ;

တံ မံ ရူပဝတိံ သန္တိံ, ကဿ ဩဟာယ ဂစ္ဆသိ’’.

Me, anointed with yellow sandalwood, wearing the finest cloth from Kāsī—being so beautiful, for what reason do you abandon me and go?

၃၀၀.

300.

‘‘သာကုန္တိကောဝ သကုဏိံ, ယထာ ဗန္ဓိတုမိစ္ဆတိ;

အာဟရိမေန ရူပေန, န မံ တွံ ဗာဓယိဿသိ’’.

Just as a fowler wishes to trap a bird, so with your contrived form you wish to bind me. But you will not ensnare me.

၃၀၁.

301.

‘‘ဣမဉ္စ မေ ပုတ္တဖလံ, ကာဠ ဥပ္ပာဒိတံ တယာ;

တံ မံ ပုတ္တဝတိံ သန္တိံ, ကဿ ဩဟာယ ဂစ္ဆသိ’’.

O Kāḷa, this fruit, my son, was produced by you. Being a mother with a son, for what reason do you abandon me and go?

၃၀၂.

302.

‘‘ဇဟန္တိ ပုတ္တေ သပ္ပညာ, တတော ဉာတီ တတော ဓနံ;

ပဗ္ဗဇန္တိ မဟာဝီရာ, နာဂေါ ဆေတွာဝ ဗန္ဓနံ’’.

The wise give up children, then relatives, then wealth; great heroes go forth, like an elephant breaking its bonds.

၃၀၃.

303.

‘‘ဣဒါနိ တေ ဣမံ ပုတ္တံ, ဒဏ္ဍေန ဆုရိကာယ ဝါ;

ဘူမိယံ ဝါ နိသုမ္ဘိဿံ, ပုတ္တသောကာ န ဂစ္ဆသိ’’.

Now I will strike this son of yours with a stick or a knife, or dash him to the ground; you will not depart out of sorrow for your son.

၃၀၄.

304.

‘‘သစေ ပုတ္တံ သိင်္ဂါလာနံ, ကုက္ကုရာနံ ပဒါဟိသိ;

န မံ ပုတ္တကတ္တေ ဇမ္မိ, ပုနရာဝတ္တယိဿသိ’’.

O wretch, even if you give our son to the jackals and dogs, you will not make me turn back again for the sake of our son.

၃၀၅.

305.

‘‘ဟန္ဒ ခေါ ဒါနိ ဘဒ္ဒန္တေ, ကုဟိံ ကာဠ ဂမိဿသိ;

ကတမံ ဂါမနိဂမံ, နဂရံ ရာဇဓာနိယော’’.

Now then, venerable sir, where will you go, Kāḷa? To which village or market town, to which city, or to which royal capitals?

၃၀၆.

306.

‘‘အဟုမှ ပုဗ္ဗေ ဂဏိနော, အဿမဏာ သမဏမာနိနော;

ဂါမေန ဂါမံ ဝိစရိမှ, နဂရေ ရာဇဓာနိယော.

Formerly, we were leaders of groups, not true ascetics, yet conceiving ourselves as such; from village to village we wandered, and through cities and royal capitals.

၃၀၇.

307.

‘‘ဧသော ဟိ ဘဂဝါ ဗုဒ္ဓေါ, နဒိံ နေရဉ္ဇရံ ပတိ;

သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခပ္ပဟာနာယ, ဓမ္မံ ဒေသေတိ ပါဏိနံ;

တဿာဟံ သန္တိကံ ဂစ္ဆံ, သော မေ သတ္ထာ ဘဝိဿတိ’’.

Behold, the Blessed One, the Buddha, is near the Nerañjarā river. For the abandoning of all suffering, he teaches the Dhamma to living beings. I will go to his presence; he will be my teacher.

၃၀၈.

308.

‘‘ဝန္ဒနံ ဒါနိ ဝဇ္ဇာသိ, လောကနာထံ အနုတ္တရံ;

ပဒက္ခိဏဉ္စ ကတွာန, အာဒိသေယျာသိ ဒက္ခိဏံ’’.

Now, you should convey my homage to the unsurpassed Lord of the world. And having circumambulated him, you should dedicate the merit to me.

၃၀၉.

309.

‘‘ဧတံ ခေါ လဗ္ဘမမှေဟိ, ယထာ ဘာသသိ တွဉ္စ မေ;

ဝန္ဒနံ ဒါနိ တေ ဝဇ္ဇံ, လောကနာထံ အနုတ္တရံ;

ပဒက္ခိဏဉ္စ ကတွာန, အာဒိသိဿာမိ ဒက္ခိဏံ’’.

As you have spoken, this can indeed be done by me. I will now convey your homage to the unsurpassed Lord of the world. And having circumambulated him, I will dedicate the merit to you.

၃၁၀.

310.

တတော [Pg.414] စ ကာဠော ပက္ကာမိ, နဒိံ နေရဉ္ဇရံ ပတိ;

သော အဒ္ဒသာသိ သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဒေသေန္တံ အမတံ ပဒံ.

Then Kāḷa departed from that place. Near the Nerañjarā river, he saw the Fully Enlightened One teaching the deathless state:

၃၁၁.

311.

ဒုက္ခံ ဒုက္ခသမုပ္ပာဒံ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ အတိက္ကမံ;

အရိယံ စဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဒုက္ခူပသမဂါမိနံ.

Suffering, the origin of suffering, and the overcoming of suffering; and the Noble Eightfold Path that leads to the stilling of suffering.

၃၁၂.

312.

တဿ ပါဒါနိ ဝန္ဒိတွာ, ကတွာန နံ ပဒက္ခိဏံ;

စာပါယ အာဒိသိတွာန, ပဗ္ဗဇိံ အနဂါရိယံ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

Having paid homage at his feet and having circumambulated him, having dedicated the merit to Cāpā, I went forth into homelessness. The three knowledges were attained; the Buddha's teaching was fulfilled.

… စာပါ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Nun Cāpā …

၄. သုန္ဒရီထေရီဂါထာ

4. The Verses of the Elder Nun Sundarī

၃၁၃.

313.

‘‘ပေတာနိ ဘောတိ ပုတ္တာနိ, ခါဒမာနာ တုဝံ ပုရေ;

တုဝံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, အတီဝ ပရိတပ္ပသိ.

O Vāsiṭṭhī, in the past, while devouring your dead sons, you were exceedingly tormented both day and night.

၃၁၄.

314.

‘‘သာဇ္ဇ သဗ္ဗာနိ ခါဒိတွာ, သတပုတ္တာနိ ဗြာဟ္မဏီ;

ဝါသေဋ္ဌိ ကေန ဝဏ္ဏေန, န ဗာဠှံ ပရိတပ္ပသိ’’.

O Vāsiṭṭhī, the brahmin woman, having eaten all your hundred sons, for what reason do you not grieve intensely today?

၃၁၅.

315.

‘‘ဗဟူနိ ပုတ္တသတာနိ, ဉာတိသံဃသတာနိ စ;

ခါဒိတာနိ အတီတံသေ, မမ တုယှဉ္စ ဗြာဟ္မဏ.

“Many hundreds of sons and hundreds of groups of relatives have been consumed in the past, O brahmin, by both me and you.

၃၁၆.

316.

‘‘သာဟံ နိဿရဏံ ဉတွာ, ဇာတိယာ မရဏဿ စ;

န သောစာမိ န ရောဒါမိ, န စာပိ ပရိတပ္ပယိံ’’.

“I, having known the escape from birth and death, do not sorrow, do not weep, nor do I grieve.”

၃၁၇.

317.

‘‘အဗ္ဘုတံ ဝတ ဝါသေဋ္ဌိ, ဝါစံ ဘာသသိ ဧဒိသိံ;

ကဿ တွံ ဓမ္မမညာယ, ဂိရံ ဘာသသိ ဧဒိသိံ’’.

“Wonderful indeed, Vāsiṭṭhī, is the speech you utter! Having understood whose Dhamma do you speak such words?”

၃၁၈.

318.

‘‘ဧသ ဗြာဟ္မဏ သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓေါ, နဂရံ မိထိလံ ပတိ;

သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခပ္ပဟာနာယ, ဓမ္မံ ဒေသေသိ ပါဏိနံ.

“O brahmin, this Fully Enlightened One, dwelling near the city of Mithilā, teaches the Dhamma to beings for the abandoning of all suffering.

၃၁၉.

319.

‘‘တဿ ဗြဟ္မေ အရဟတော, ဓမ္မံ သုတွာ နိရူပဓိံ;

တတ္ထ ဝိညာတသဒ္ဓမ္မာ, ပုတ္တသောကံ ဗျပါနုဒိံ’’.

“O brahmin, having heard the Dhamma without defilements from that Arahant, there, having understood the true Dhamma, I dispelled the sorrow for my son.”

၃၂၀.

320.

‘‘သော အဟမ္ပိ ဂမိဿာမိ, နဂရံ မိထိလံ ပတိ;

အပ္ပေဝ မံ သော ဘဂဝါ, သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခာ ပမောစယေ’’.

“I too shall go towards the city of Mithilā. Perhaps that Blessed One may free me from all suffering.”

၃၂၁.

321.

အဒ္ဒသ [Pg.415] ဗြာဟ္မဏော ဗုဒ္ဓံ, ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တံ နိရူပဓိံ;

သွဿ ဓမ္မမဒေသေသိ, မုနိ ဒုက္ခဿ ပါရဂူ.

The brahmin saw the Buddha, completely liberated, without defilements. The Sage, who has gone beyond suffering, taught the Dhamma to him:

၃၂၂.

322.

ဒုက္ခံ ဒုက္ခသမုပ္ပာဒံ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ အတိက္ကမံ;

အရိယံ စဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဒုက္ခူပသမဂါမိနံ.

Suffering, the origin of suffering, the overcoming of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the calming of suffering.

၃၂၃.

323.

တတ္ထ ဝိညာတသဒ္ဓမ္မော, ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇံ သမရောစယိ;

သုဇာတော တီဟိ ရတ္တီဟိ, တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အဖဿယိ.

There, having understood the true Dhamma, Sujāta found delight in the going forth. In three nights, he attained the three knowledges.

၃၂၄.

324.

‘‘ဧဟိ သာရထိ ဂစ္ဆာဟိ, ရထံ နိယျာဒယာဟိမံ;

အာရောဂျံ ဗြာဟ္မဏိံ ဝဇ္ဇ, ‘ပဗ္ဗဇိ ဒါနိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

သုဇာတော တီဟိ ရတ္တီဟိ, တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အဖဿယိ’’’.

“Come, charioteer, go and hand over this chariot to the brahmin woman. Tell her of my well-being and say: ‘The brahmin Sujāta has now gone forth; in three nights, he has attained the three knowledges.’”

၃၂၅.

325.

တတော စ ရထမာဒါယ, သဟဿဉ္စာပိ သာရထိ;

အာရောဂျံ ဗြာဟ္မဏိဝေါစ, ‘‘ပဗ္ဗဇိ ဒါနိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

သုဇာတော တီဟိ ရတ္တီဟိ, တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အဖဿယိ’’.

Then the charioteer, taking the chariot and the thousand, told the brahmin woman of his well-being, saying: “The brahmin Sujāta has now gone forth; in three nights, he has attained the three knowledges.”

၃၂၆.

326.

‘‘ဧတဉ္စာဟံ အဿရထံ, သဟဿဉ္စာပိ သာရထိ;

တေဝိဇ္ဇံ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ သုတွာ, ပုဏ္ဏပတ္တံ ဒဒါမိ တေ’’.

“O charioteer, having heard of the brahmin who possesses the three knowledges, I give you this horse-drawn chariot and the thousand as a generous reward.”

၃၂၇.

327.

‘‘တုယှေဝ ဟောတွဿရထော, သဟဿဉ္စာပိ ဗြာဟ္မဏိ;

အဟမ္ပိ ပဗ္ဗဇိဿာမိ, ဝရပညဿ သန္တိကေ’’.

“Let the horse-drawn chariot and the thousand be yours, O brahmin woman. I too shall go forth in the presence of the one with supreme wisdom.”

၃၂၈.

328.

‘‘ဟတ္ထီ ဂဝဿံ မဏိကုဏ္ဍလဉ္စ, ဖီတဉ္စိမံ ဂဟဝိဘဝံ ပဟာယ;

ပိတာ ပဗ္ဗဇိတော တုယှံ, ဘုဉ္ဇ ဘောဂါနိ သုန္ဒရိ;

တုဝံ ဒါယာဒိကာ ကုလေ’’.

“Having abandoned elephants, cattle, horses, gems, and earrings, and this prosperous household wealth, your father has gone forth. Enjoy the riches, Sundarī; you are the heir in the family.”

၃၂၉.

329.

‘‘ဟတ္ထီ ဂဝဿံ မဏိကုဏ္ဍလဉ္စ, ရမ္မံ စိမံ ဂဟဝိဘဝံ ပဟာယ;

ပိတာ ပဗ္ဗဇိတော မယှံ, ပုတ္တသောကေန အဋ္ဋိတော;

“Having abandoned elephants, cattle, horses, gems, and earrings, and this delightful household wealth, my father, afflicted by sorrow for his son, has gone forth.

အဟမ္ပိ ပဗ္ဗဇိဿာမိ, ဘာတုသောကေန အဋ္ဋိတာ’’.

I too shall go forth, afflicted by sorrow for my brother.”

၃၃၀.

330.

‘‘သော တေ ဣဇ္ဈတု သင်္ကပ္ပော, ယံ တွံ ပတ္ထေသိ သုန္ဒရီ;

ဥတ္တိဋ္ဌပိဏ္ဍော ဥဉ္ဆော စ, ပံသုကူလဉ္စ စီဝရံ;

ဧတာနိ အဘိသမ္ဘောန္တီ, ပရလောကေ အနာသဝါ’’.

“May that intention of yours succeed, Sundarī, that which you aspire to. With alms-food from standing at the door, with gleanings, and with a robe from a dust-heap—being content with these, may you be taintless in the world beyond.”

၃၃၁.

331.

‘‘သိက္ခမာနာယ [Pg.416] မေ အယျေ, ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု ဝိသောဓိတံ;

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ဇာနာမိ, ယတ္ထ မေ ဝုသိတံ ပုရေ.

“O venerable lady, while I was a trainee, my divine eye was purified. I know my former lives and where I have dwelt in the past.

၃၃၂.

332.

‘‘တုဝံ နိဿာယ ကလျာဏီ, ထေရီ သံဃဿ သောဘနေ;

တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အနုပ္ပတ္တာ, ကတံ ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာသနံ.

“Relying on you, O virtuous one, O elder who adorns the Sangha, the three knowledges have been attained by me, and the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

၃၃၃.

333.

‘‘အနုဇာနာဟိ မေ အယျေ, ဣစ္ဆေ သာဝတ္ထိ ဂန္တဝေ;

သီဟနာဒံ နဒိဿာမိ, ဗုဒ္ဓသေဋ္ဌဿ သန္တိကေ’’.

“Grant me permission, venerable lady; I wish to go to Sāvatthī. I shall utter the lion's roar in the presence of the best of Buddhas.”

၃၃၄.

334.

‘‘ပဿ သုန္ဒရိ သတ္ထာရံ, ဟေမဝဏ္ဏံ ဟရိတ္တစံ;

အဒန္တာနံ ဒမေတာရံ, သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓမကုတောဘယံ’’.

“Behold, Sundarī, the Teacher, golden-hued and with radiant skin, the tamer of the untamed, the Fully Enlightened One, who is fearless from any quarter.”

၃၃၅.

335.

‘‘ပဿ သုန္ဒရိမာယန္တိံ, ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တံ နိရူပဓိံ;

ဝီတရာဂံ ဝိသံယုတ္တံ, ကတကိစ္စမနာသဝံ.

“Behold Sundarī coming—completely liberated, without defilements, devoid of passion, disjoined from fetters, her duty done, and taintless.

၃၃၆.

336.

‘‘ဗာရာဏသီတော နိက္ခမ္မ, တဝ သန္တိကမာဂတာ;

သာဝိကာ တေ မဟာဝီရ, ပါဒေ ဝန္ဒတိ သုန္ဒရီ’’.

“O great hero, having departed from Bārāṇasī and come into your presence, your disciple Sundarī venerates your feet.”

၃၃၇.

337.

‘‘တုဝံ ဗုဒ္ဓေါ တုဝံ သတ္ထာ, တုယှံ ဓီတာမှိ ဗြာဟ္မဏ;

ဩရသာ မုခတော ဇာတာ, ကတကိစ္စာ အနာသဝါ’’.

“You are the Buddha, you are the Teacher. I am your daughter, O brahmin, born from your breast, born from your mouth. My task is done, I am taintless.”

၃၃၈.

338.

‘‘တဿာ တေ သွာဂတံ ဘဒ္ဒေ, တတော တေ အဒုရာဂတံ;

ဧဝဉှိ ဒန္တာ အာယန္တိ, သတ္ထု ပါဒါနိ ဝန္ဒိကာ;

ဝီတရာဂါ ဝိသံယုတ္တာ, ကတကိစ္စာ အနာသဝါ’’.

“Welcome to you, virtuous one; it is good that you have come. For thus do the tamed come to venerate the Teacher’s feet—devoid of passion, disjoined from fetters, their duty done, and taintless.”

… သုန္ဒရီ ထေရီ….

The Elder Sundarī.

၅. သုဘာကမ္မာရဓီတုထေရီဂါထာ

5. The Verses of the Elder Nun Subhā the Goldsmith’s Daughter

၃၃၉.

339.

‘‘ဒဟရာဟံ သုဒ္ဓဝသနာ, ယံ ပုရေ ဓမ္မမဿုဏိံ;

တဿာ မေ အပ္ပမတ္တာယ, သစ္စာဘိသမယော အဟု.

“Young was I, clad in clean garments, when in a former life I heard the Dhamma; and for me, who was heedful, the realization of the truths occurred.

၃၄၀.

340.

‘‘တတောဟံ သဗ္ဗကာမေသု, ဘုသံ အရတိမဇ္ဈဂံ;

သက္ကာယသ္မိံ ဘယံ ဒိသွာ, နေက္ခမ္မမေဝ ပီဟယေ.

“Therefore I found great aversion toward all sensual pleasures; and seeing the danger in this body, I longed only for renunciation.

၃၄၁.

341.

‘‘ဟိတွာနဟံ ဉာတိဂဏံ, ဒါသကမ္မကရာနိ စ;

ဂါမခေတ္တာနိ ဖီတာနိ, ရမဏီယေ ပမောဒိတေ.

“Having abandoned my host of kinsmen, slaves, and workers, and prosperous villages and fields, delightful and gladdening,

၃၄၂.

342.

‘‘ပဟာယဟံ [Pg.417] ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ, သာပတေယျမနပ္ပကံ;

ဧဝံ သဒ္ဓါယ နိက္ခမ္မ, သဒ္ဓမ္မေ သုပ္ပဝေဒိတေ.

and having renounced considerable wealth, I went forth. Thus with faith I went forth in the well-proclaimed Good Dhamma.

၃၄၃.

343.

‘‘နေတံ အဿ ပတိရူပံ, အာကိဉ္စညဉှိ ပတ္ထယေ;

ယော ဇာတရူပံ ရဇတံ, ဆဍ္ဍေတွာ ပုနရာဂမေ.

“It would not be proper for me to return to them, for I aspire only to the state of possessing nothing. If a person, having cast aside gold and silver, were to take them up again, how could they lift their head among the wise?

၃၄၄.

344.

‘‘ရဇတံ ဇာတရူပံ ဝါ, န ဗောဓာယ န သန္တိယာ;

နေတံ သမဏသာရုပ္ပံ, န ဧတံ အရိယဒ္ဓနံ.

“Silver or gold is not for awakening, not for peace. This is not befitting for a recluse; this is not the wealth of the noble ones.

၃၄၅.

345.

‘‘လောဘနံ မဒနဉ္စေတံ, မောဟနံ ရဇဝဍ္ဎနံ;

သာသင်္ကံ ဗဟုအာယာသံ, နတ္ထိ စေတ္ထ ဓုဝံ ဌိတိ.

“This causes greed and intoxication, delusion and the increase of defilements; it is fraught with anxiety and much toil; there is no firmness or stability in it.

၃၄၆.

346.

‘‘ဧတ္ထ ရတ္တာ ပမတ္တာ စ, သင်္ကိလိဋ္ဌမနာ နရာ;

အညမညေန ဗျာရုဒ္ဓါ, ပုထု ကုဗ္ဗန္တိ မေဓဂံ.

“People attached to this, heedless and with defiled minds, become hostile toward one another and create much strife.

၃၄၇.

347.

‘‘ဝဓော ဗန္ဓော ပရိက္လေသော, ဇာနိ သောကပရိဒ္ဒဝေါ;

ကာမေသု အဓိပန္နာနံ, ဒိဿတေ ဗျသနံ ဗဟုံ.

“Killing, bondage, and affliction, loss, grief, and lamentation—for those overcome by sensual pleasures, much disaster is seen.

၃၄၈.

348.

‘‘တံ မံ ဉာတီ အမိတ္တာဝ, ကိံ ဝေါ ကာမေသု ယုဉ္ဇထ;

ဇာနာထ မံ ပဗ္ဗဇိတံ, ကာမေသု ဘယဒဿိနိံ.

“O my kinsmen, you who are like enemies, why do you urge me toward sensual pleasures? Know me as one who has gone forth, who sees the danger in them.

၃၄၉.

349.

‘‘န ဟိရညသုဝဏ္ဏေန, ပရိက္ခီယန္တိ အာသဝါ;

အမိတ္တာ ဝဓကာ ကာမာ, သပတ္တာ သလ္လဗန္ဓနာ.

“The taints are not destroyed by gold and silver. Sensual pleasures are enemies, murderers, foes, and the bonds of darts.

၃၅၀.

350.

‘‘တံ မံ ဉာတီ အမိတ္တာဝ, ကိံ ဝေါ ကာမေသု ယုဉ္ဇထ;

ဇာနာထ မံ ပဗ္ဗဇိတံ, မုဏ္ဍံ သံဃာဋိပါရုတံ.

“O my kinsmen, you who are like enemies, why do you urge me toward sensual pleasures? Know me as one who has gone forth, shaven-headed and clad in the outer robe.

၃၅၁.

351.

‘‘ဥတ္တိဋ္ဌပိဏ္ဍော ဥဉ္ဆော စ, ပံသုကူလဉ္စ စီဝရံ;

ဧတံ ခေါ မမ သာရုပ္ပံ, အနဂါရူပနိဿယော.

“Alms received by standing, and what is gleaned, and a robe from dust-heap rags—this is what is suitable for me, the supports of the homeless life.”

၃၅၂.

352.

‘‘ဝန္တာ မဟေသီဟိ ကာမာ, ယေ ဒိဗ္ဗာ ယေ စ မာနုသာ;

ခေမဋ္ဌာနေ ဝိမုတ္တာ တေ, ပတ္တာ တေ အစလံ သုခံ.

“Sensual pleasures, both divine and human, have been disgorged by the great seers. They are liberated in the state of security; they have attained unshakable happiness.

၃၅၃.

353.

‘‘မာဟံ ကာမေဟိ သင်္ဂစ္ဆိံ, ယေသု တာဏံ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ;

အမိတ္တာ ဝဓကာ ကာမာ, အဂ္ဂိက္ခန္ဓူပမာ ဒုခါ.

“May I have no association with sensual pleasures, in which no refuge can be found. Sensual pleasures are enemies, murderers, painful like a mass of fire.

၃၅၄.

354.

‘‘ပရိပန္ထော [Pg.418] ဧသ ဘယော, သဝိဃာတော သကဏ္ဋကော;

ဂေဓော သုဝိသမော စေသော, မဟန္တော မောဟနာမုခေါ.

“This is an oppressor and a danger, full of obstacles and thorns; this greed is utterly treacherous, a great entrance to delusion.

၃၅၅.

355.

‘‘ဥပသဂ္ဂေါ ဘီမရူပေါ, ကာမာ သပ္ပသိရူပမာ;

ယေ ဗာလာ အဘိနန္ဒန္တိ, အန္ဓဘူတာ ပုထုဇ္ဇနာ.

“Sensual pleasures are a calamity of dreadful form, like the head of a snake. Fools, blind worldlings, delight in them.

၃၅၆.

356.

‘‘ကာမပင်္ကေန သတ္တာ ဟိ, ဗဟူ လောကေ အဝိဒ္ဒသူ;

ပရိယန္တံ န ဇာနန္တိ, ဇာတိယာ မရဏဿ စ.

“For many beings in the world, stuck in the mire of sensual pleasure, are unwise; they do not know the end of birth and death.

၃၅၇.

357.

‘‘ဒုဂ္ဂတိဂမနံ မဂ္ဂံ, မနုဿာ ကာမဟေတုကံ;

ဗဟုံ ဝေ ပဋိပဇ္ဇန္တိ, အတ္တနော ရောဂမာဝဟံ.

“On account of sensual pleasure, people indeed undertake the path that leads to a woeful destination, thereby bringing suffering upon themselves.

၃၅၈.

358.

‘‘ဧဝံ အမိတ္တဇနနာ, တာပနာ သံကိလေသိကာ;

လောကာမိသာ ဗန္ဓနီယာ, ကာမာ မရဏဗန္ဓနာ.

“Thus sensual pleasures produce enemies; they are scorching and defiling, the bait of the world, a source of bondage, the bonds of Death.

၃၅၉.

359.

‘‘ဥမ္မာဒနာ ဥလ္လပနာ, ကာမာ စိတ္တပ္ပမဒ္ဒိနော;

သတ္တာနံ သင်္ကိလေသာယ, ခိပ္ပံ မာရေန ဩဍ္ဍိတံ.

“Maddening and alluring, sensual pleasures crush the mind; a snare quickly set by Māra for the defilement of beings.

၃၆၀.

360.

‘‘အနန္တာဒီနဝါ ကာမာ, ဗဟုဒုက္ခာ မဟာဝိသာ;

အပ္ပဿာဒါ ရဏကရာ, သုက္ကပက္ခဝိသောသနာ.

“Sensual pleasures have endless dangers, are full of suffering, a great poison; they give little enjoyment, cause conflict, and dry up the wholesome side.

၃၆၁.

361.

‘‘သာဟံ ဧတာဒိသံ ကတွာ, ဗျသနံ ကာမဟေတုကံ;

န တံ ပစ္စာဂမိဿာမိ, နိဗ္ဗာနာဘိရတာ သဒါ.

“Having understood this disaster caused by sensual pleasure, I will not return to it; I will delight always in Nibbāna.

၃၆၂.

362.

‘‘ရဏံ ကရိတွာ ကာမာနံ, သီတိဘာဝါဘိကင်္ခိနီ;

အပ္ပမတ္တာ ဝိဟဿာမိ, သဗ္ဗသံယောဇနက္ခယေ.

“Having made war on sensual pleasures, longing for the state of coolness, I will dwell heedfully, delighting in the destruction of all fetters.

၃၆၃.

363.

‘‘အသောကံ ဝိရဇံ ခေမံ, အရိယဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ ဥဇုံ;

တံ မဂ္ဂံ အနုဂစ္ဆာမိ, ယေန တိဏ္ဏာ မဟေသိနော’’.

“Sorrowless, stainless, secure, the Noble Eightfold Path, the straight way: I follow that path by which the great seers have crossed over.”

၃၆၄.

364.

ဣမံ ပဿထ ဓမ္မဋ္ဌံ, သုဘံ ကမ္မာရဓီတရံ;

အနေဇံ ဥပသမ္ပဇ္ဇ, ရုက္ခမူလမှိ ဈာယတိ.

“Behold this one standing in the Dhamma, Subhā, the goldsmith’s daughter! Having attained the imperturbable state, she meditates at the foot of a tree.

၃၆၅.

365.

အဇ္ဇဋ္ဌမီ ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ, သဒ္ဓါ သဒ္ဓမ္မသောဘနာ;

ဝိနီတုပ္ပလဝဏ္ဏာယ, တေဝိဇ္ဇာ မစ္စုဟာယိနီ.

“It is the eighth day since she went forth. Endowed with faith, she beautifies the Good Dhamma. Trained by Uppalavaṇṇā, she possesses the three knowledges and has left Death behind.

၃၆၆.

366.

သာယံ [Pg.419] ဘုဇိဿာ အနဏာ, ဘိက္ခုနီ ဘာဝိတိန္ဒြိယာ;

သဗ္ဗယောဂဝိသံယုတ္တာ, ကတကိစ္စာ အနာသဝါ.

“This nun is liberated, debtless, with faculties developed. Disjoined from all yokes, her task is done, she is free from taints.

၃၆၇.

367.

တံ သက္ကော ဒေဝသံဃေန, ဥပသင်္ကမ္မ ဣဒ္ဓိယာ;

နမဿတိ ဘူတပတိ, သုဘံ ကမ္မာရဓီတရန္တိ.

“Sakka, the lord of beings, with his assembly of devas, approached her by his psychic power and paid homage to Subhā, the goldsmith’s daughter.”

… သုဘာ ကမ္မာရဓီတာ ထေရီ….

… The Elder Nun Subhā the Goldsmith’s Daughter ….

ဝီသတိနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Twenties is finished.

၁၄. တိံသနိပါတော

14. The Chapter of the Thirties

၁. သုဘာဇီဝကမ္ဗဝနိကာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Nun Subhā of Jīvaka’s Mango Grove

၃၆၈.

368.

ဇီဝကမ္ဗဝနံ [Pg.420] ရမ္မံ, ဂစ္ဆန္တိံ ဘိက္ခုနိံ သုဘံ;

ဓုတ္တကော သန္နိဝါရေသိ, တမေနံ အဗြဝီ သုဘာ.

While the bhikkhunī Subhā was going to the delightful Jīvaka’s Mango Grove, a libertine blocked her way. Subhā said this to him:

၃၆၉.

369.

‘‘ကိံ တေ အပရာဓိတံ မယာ, ယံ မံ ဩဝရိယာန တိဋ္ဌသိ;

န ဟိ ပဗ္ဗဇိတာယ အာဝုသော, ပုရိသော သမ္ဖုသနာယ ကပ္ပတိ.

“What wrong have I done you that you stand blocking my way? It is not proper, friend, for a man to touch a woman who has gone forth.

၃၇၀.

370.

‘‘ဂရုကေ မမ သတ္ထုသာသနေ, ယာ သိက္ခာ သုဂတေန ဒေသိတာ;

ပရိသုဒ္ဓပဒံ အနင်္ဂဏံ, ကိံ မံ ဩဝရိယာန တိဋ္ဌသိ.

“In the weighty Dispensation of my Teacher is the training taught by the Well-Farer. Why do you stand blocking me, who am of a pure state and stainless?

၃၇၁.

371.

‘‘အာဝိလစိတ္တော အနာဝိလံ, သရဇော ဝီတရဇံ အနင်္ဂဏံ;

သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိမုတ္တမာနသံ, ကိံ မံ ဩဝရိယာန တိဋ္ဌသိ’’.

“With your mind agitated and with passion, you obstruct one who is unagitated, passionless, and stainless, whose mind is in every way released. Why do you stand blocking my way?”

၃၇၂.

372.

‘‘ဒဟရာ စ အပါပိကာ စသိ, ကိံ တေ ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇာ ကရိဿတိ;

နိက္ခိပ ကာသာယစီဝရံ, ဧဟိ ရမာမ သုပုပ္ဖိတေ ဝနေ.

“You are young and not unattractive; what will the going-forth do for you? Throw off that saffron robe! Come, let us sport in the flowering wood.

၃၇၃.

373.

‘‘မဓုရဉ္စ ပဝန္တိ သဗ္ဗသော, ကုသုမရဇေန သမုဋ္ဌိတာ ဒုမာ;

ပဌမဝသန္တော သုခေါ ဥတု, ဧဟိ ရမာမ သုပုပ္ဖိတေ ဝနေ.

“Sweet fragrances drift from the trees crowned with blossoms. The first of spring is a pleasant season—come, let us sport in the flowering wood.

၃၇၄.

374.

‘‘ကုသုမိတသိခရာ စ ပါဒပါ, အဘိဂဇ္ဇန္တိဝ မာလုတေရိတာ;

ကာ တုယှံ ရတိ ဘဝိဿတိ, ယဒိ ဧကာ ဝနမောဂဟိဿသိ.

“The treetops are in flower, and stirred by the wind they seem to be roaring. What delight will you have if you plunge into the forest all alone?

၃၇၅.

375.

‘‘ဝါဠမိဂသံဃသေဝိတံ[Pg.421], ကုဉ္ဇရမတ္တကရေဏုလောဠိတံ;

အသဟာယိကာ ဂန္တုမိစ္ဆသိ, ရဟိတံ ဘိံသနကံ မဟာဝနံ.

“You wish to enter all alone a great and terrifying forest, haunted by herds of predators, disturbed by elephants and their mates in rut.

၃၇၆.

376.

‘‘တပနီယကတာဝ ဓီတိကာ, ဝိစရသိ စိတ္တလတေဝ အစ္ဆရာ;

ကာသိကသုခုမေဟိ ဝဂ္ဂုဘိ, သောဘသီ သုဝသနေဟိ နူပမေ.

“Like a golden doll, like a celestial nymph in the Cittalatā grove you wander. You would shine in beautiful, incomparable garments of fine Kāsī silk.

၃၇၇.

377.

‘‘အဟံ တဝ ဝသာနုဂေါ သိယံ, ယဒိ ဝိဟရေမသေ ကာနနန္တရေ;

န ဟိ မတ္ထိ တယာ ပိယတ္တရော, ပါဏော ကိန္နရိမန္ဒလောစနေ.

“I would become your slave if we were to dwell in the heart of the forest. There is no creature dearer to me than you, O you with the eyes of a kinnarī!

၃၇၈.

378.

‘‘ယဒိ မေ ဝစနံ ကရိဿသိ, သုခိတာ ဧဟိ အဂါရမာဝသ;

ပါသာဒနိဝါတဝါသိနီ, ပရိကမ္မံ တေ ကရောန္တု နာရိယော.

“If you will do as I say, come, live happily in a house. Dwelling in a palace sheltered from the wind, let ladies attend on you.

၃၇၉.

379.

‘‘ကာသိကသုခုမာနိ ဓာရယ, အဘိရောပေဟိ စ မာလဝဏ္ဏကံ;

ကဉ္စနမဏိမုတ္တကံ ဗဟုံ, ဝိဝိဓံ အာဘရဏံ ကရောမိ တေ.

“Wear fine silks of Kāsī; adorn yourself with garlands and cosmetics. I will have many varied ornaments made for you, of gold, jewels, and pearls.

၃၈၀.

380.

‘‘သုဓောတရဇပစ္ဆဒံ သုဘံ, ဂေါဏကတူလိကသန္ထတံ နဝံ;

အဘိရုဟ သယနံ မဟာရဟံ, စန္ဒနမဏ္ဍိတသာရဂန္ဓိကံ;

“Ascend a couch of great price, fragrant with the essence of sandalwood, spread with new fleece coverlets and cotton quilts, with a beautiful, clean linen sheet.

၃၈၁.

381.

‘‘ဥပ္ပလံ စုဒကာ သမုဂ္ဂတံ, ယထာ တံ အမနုဿသေဝိတံ;

ဧဝံ တွံ ဗြဟ္မစာရိနီ, သကေသင်္ဂေသု ဇရံ ဂမိဿသိ’’.

“Like a blue lotus that has risen from the water, fit for non-humans to enjoy, so you, a celibate, will come to old age with your limbs gone to waste.”

၃၈၂.

382.

‘‘ကိံ [Pg.422] တေ ဣဓ သာရသမ္မတံ, ကုဏပပူရမှိ သုသာနဝဍ္ဎနေ;

ဘေဒနဓမ္မေ ကဠေဝရေ, ယံ ဒိသွာ ဝိမနော ဥဒိက္ခသိ’’.

“In this body—full of impurities, an increaser of the charnel ground, and by nature subject to breaking up—what do you consider to be its essence? Seeing it, why do you look on so infatuated?”

၃၈၃.

383.

‘‘အက္ခီနိ စ တုရိယာရိဝ, ကိန္နရိယာရိဝ ပဗ္ဗတန္တရေ;

တဝ မေ နယနာနိ ဒက္ခိယ, ဘိယျော ကာမရတီ ပဝဍ္ဎတိ.

“Your eyes are like those of a doe, like a kinnarī’s in a mountain cleft. When I see your eyes, my sensual delight increases all the more.

၃၈၄.

384.

‘‘ဥပ္ပလသိခရောပမာနိ တေ, ဝိမလေ ဟာဋကသန္နိဘေ မုခေ;

တဝ မေ နယနာနိ ဒက္ခိယ, ဘိယျော ကာမဂုဏော ပဝဍ္ဎတိ.

“In your pure face, which resembles refined gold, your eyes are like the tips of blue lotus buds. Seeing your eyes, my sensual passion grows all the more.

၃၈၅.

385.

‘‘အပိ ဒူရဂတာ သရမှသေ, အာယတပမှေ ဝိသုဒ္ဓဒဿနေ;

န ဟိ မတ္ထိ တယာ ပိယတ္တရာ, နယနာ ကိန္နရိမန္ဒလောစနေ’’.

“Even when you are far away I will remember your eyes, with their long lashes and clear sight. Nothing is dearer to me than your eyes, O you with the eyes of a kinnarī!”

၃၈၆.

386.

‘‘အပထေန ပယာတုမိစ္ဆသိ, စန္ဒံ ကီဠနကံ ဂဝေသသိ;

မေရုံ လင်္ဃေတုမိစ္ဆသိ, ယော တွံ ဗုဒ္ဓသုတံ မဂ္ဂယသိ.

“You wish to walk on a pathless way; you seek to make a toy of the moon; you wish to leap over Mount Meru—you who pursue a daughter of the Buddha.

၃၈၇.

387.

‘‘နတ္ထိ ဟိ လောကေ သဒေဝကေ, ရာဂေါ ယတ္ထပိ ဒါနိ မေ သိယာ;

နပိ နံ ဇာနာမိ ကီရိသော, အထ မဂ္ဂေန ဟတော သမူလကော.

“For me there is no lust anywhere in the world with its devas. I do not even know what it is like; it has been struck down by the path, root and all.

၃၈၈.

388.

‘‘ဣင်္ဂါလကုယာဝ ဥဇ္ဈိတော, ဝိသပတ္တောရိဝ အဂ္ဂိတော ကတော ;

နပိ နံ ပဿာမိ ကီရိသော, အထ မဂ္ဂေန ဟတော သမူလကော.

Like an ember tossed into a charcoal pit, like a poison pot utterly destroyed, I do not even see what it is like, for it has been slain by the path, root and all.

၃၈၉.

389.

‘‘ယဿာ [Pg.423] သိယာ အပစ္စဝေက္ခိတံ, သတ္ထာ ဝါ အနုပါသိတော သိယာ;

တွံ တာဒိသိကံ ပလောဘယ, ဇာနန္တိံ သော ဣမံ ဝိဟညသိ.

You should entice a woman for whom this is uninvestigated, or who has not attended upon the Teacher. But in approaching this one who knows, you only vex yourself.

၃၉၀.

390.

‘‘မယှဉှိ အက္ကုဋ္ဌဝန္ဒိတေ, သုခဒုက္ခေ စ သတီ ဥပဋ္ဌိတာ;

သင်္ခတမသုဘန္တိ ဇာနိယ, သဗ္ဗတ္ထေဝ မနော န လိမ္ပတိ.

For me, amidst abuse and praise, pleasure and pain, mindfulness is established. Knowing conditioned things to be impure, my mind does not cling anywhere at all.

၃၉၁.

391.

‘‘သာဟံ သုဂတဿ သာဝိကာ, မဂ္ဂဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကယာနယာယိနီ;

ဥဒ္ဓဋသလ္လာ အနာသဝါ, သုညာဂါရဂတာ ရမာမဟံ.

I am a disciple of the Well-Farer, one who travels by the vehicle of the Eightfold Path. The dart has been extracted, I am without taints; having gone to a secluded dwelling, I delight.

၃၉၂.

392.

‘‘ဒိဋ္ဌာ ဟိ မယာ သုစိတ္တိတာ, သောမ္ဘာ ဒါရုကပိလ္လကာနိ ဝါ;

တန္တီဟိ စ ခီလကေဟိ စ, ဝိနိဗဒ္ဓါ ဝိဝိဓံ ပနစ္စကာ.

For I have seen well-adorned puppets, or wooden dolls, fastened with strings and pegs, and made to dance in various ways.

၃၉၃.

393.

‘‘တမှုဒ္ဓဋေ တန္တိခီလကေ, ဝိဿဋ္ဌေ ဝိကလေ ပရိကြိတေ ;

န ဝိန္ဒေယျ ခဏ္ဍသော ကတေ, ကိမှိ တတ္ထ မနံ နိဝေသယေ.

When its strings and pegs are pulled out, scattered, dismantled, and dispersed, and it is broken into pieces, one would not find it. In what part of it, then, should one fix one’s mind?

၃၉၄.

394.

‘‘တထူပမာ ဒေဟကာနိ မံ, တေဟိ ဓမ္မေဟိ ဝိနာ န ဝတ္တန္တိ;

ဓမ္မေဟိ ဝိနာ န ဝတ္တတိ, ကိမှိ တတ္ထ မနံ နိဝေသယေ.

The parts of this body appear to me as just like that; without those phenomena, they do not exist. Without phenomena, it does not exist. In what part of it, then, should one fix one’s mind?

၃၉၅.

395.

‘‘ယထာ ဟရိတာလေန မက္ခိတံ, အဒ္ဒသ စိတ္တိကံ ဘိတ္တိယာ ကတံ;

တမှိ တေ ဝိပရီတဒဿနံ, သညာ မာနုသိကာ နိရတ္ထိကာ.

Just as you might see a picture on a wall, made and smeared with yellow orpiment; regarding that, your seeing is distorted, and your perception of it as human is worthless.

၃၉၆.

396.

‘‘မာယံ [Pg.424] ဝိယ အဂ္ဂတော ကတံ, သုပိနန္တေဝ သုဝဏ္ဏပါဒပံ;

ဥပဂစ္ဆသိ အန္ဓ ရိတ္တကံ, ဇနမဇ္ဈေရိဝ ရုပ္ပရူပကံ.

Like an illusion created before one's eyes, like a golden tree in a dream, you approach an empty thing, O blind one, like a silver figure in the midst of a crowd.

၃၉၇.

397.

‘‘ဝဋ္ဋနိရိဝ ကောဋရောဟိတာ, မဇ္ဈေ ပုဗ္ဗုဠကာ သအဿုကာ;

ပီဠကောဠိကာ စေတ္ထ ဇာယတိ, ဝိဝိဓာ စက္ခုဝိဓာ စ ပိဏ္ဍိတာ’’.

Set in a hollow like a small ball, a bubble in the middle full of tears; here eye-rheum arises, and the various components of the eye are massed together.

၃၉၈.

398.

ဥပ္ပာဋိယ စာရုဒဿနာ, န စ ပဇ္ဇိတ္ထ အသင်္ဂမာနသာ;

‘‘ဟန္ဒ တေ စက္ခုံ ဟရဿု တံ’’, တဿ နရဿ အဒါသိ တာဝဒေ.

She of lovely appearance, with a mind unattached, plucked out her eye and felt no attachment. 'Here now, take this eye for yourself,' she said, and gave it to that man at that very moment.

၃၉၉.

399.

တဿ စ ဝိရမာသိ တာဝဒေ, ရာဂေါ တတ္ထ ခမာပယီ စ နံ;

‘‘သောတ္ထိ သိယာ ဗြဟ္မစာရိနီ, န ပုနော ဧဒိသကံ ဘဝိဿတိ’’.

And for him, at that very moment, passion ceased right there, and he asked for her forgiveness: 'May you be well, O holy one! Such a thing will not happen again.'

၄၀၀.

400.

‘‘အာသာဒိယ ဧဒိသံ ဇနံ, အဂ္ဂိံ ပဇ္ဇလိတံ ဝ လိင်္ဂိယ;

ဂဏှိယ အာသီဝိသံ ဝိယ, အပိ နု သောတ္ထိ သိယာ ခမေဟိ နော’’.

Having assailed such a person—as if embracing a blazing fire, as if seizing a venomous snake—how could there be well-being for me? Forgive us our offense.

၄၀၁.

401.

မုတ္တာ စ တတော သာ ဘိက္ခုနီ, အဂမီ ဗုဒ္ဓဝရဿ သန္တိကံ;

ပဿိယ ဝရပုညလက္ခဏံ, စက္ခု အာသိ ယထာ ပုရာဏကန္တိ.

And that bhikkhunī, freed from him, went to the presence of the excellent Buddha. Seeing his supreme marks of merit, her eye became as it was before.

… သုဘာ ဇီဝကမ္ဗဝနိကာ ထေရီ….

The Elder Subhā of Jīvaka's Mango Grove.

တိံသနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Thirties is finished.

၁၅. စတ္တာလီသနိပါတော

15. The Chapter of the Forties

၁. ဣသိဒါသီထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Elder Isidāsī

၄၀၂.

402.

နဂရမှိ [Pg.425] ကုသုမနာမေ, ပါဋလိပုတ္တမှိ ပထဝိယာ မဏ္ဍေ;

သကျကုလကုလီနာယော, ဒွေ ဘိက္ခုနိယော ဟိ ဂုဏဝတိယော.

In the city named for flowers, Pāṭaliputta, the ornament of the earth, there were two virtuous bhikkhunīs, noblewomen of the Sakyan clan.

၄၀၃.

403.

ဣသိဒါသီ တတ္ထ ဧကာ, ဒုတိယာ ဗောဓီတိ သီလသမ္ပန္နာ စ;

ဈာနဇ္ဈာယနရတာယော, ဗဟုဿုတာယော ဓုတကိလေသာယော.

Among them, one was Isidāsī, the second was the Elder Bodhi. Both were accomplished in virtue, delighted in jhāna and study, were very learned, and had shaken off the defilements.

၄၀၄.

404.

တာ ပိဏ္ဍာယ စရိတွာ, ဘတ္တတ္ထံ ကရိယ ဓောတပတ္တာယော;

ရဟိတမှိ သုခနိသိန္နာ, ဣမာ ဂိရာ အဗ္ဘုဒီရေသုံ.

Having wandered for alms, finished their meal, and washed their bowls, they sat comfortably in a secluded place and uttered these words.

၄၀၅.

405.

‘‘ပါသာဒိကာသိ အယျေ, ဣသိဒါသိ ဝယောပိ တေ အပရိဟီနော;

ကိံ ဒိသွာန ဗျာလိကံ, အထာသိ နေက္ခမ္မမနုယုတ္တာ’’.

“Venerable Isidāsī, you are inspiring, and your youth has not yet faded. What danger did you see that you became devoted to renunciation?”

၄၀၆.

406.

ဧဝမနုယုဉ္ဇိယမာနာ သာ, ရဟိတေ ဓမ္မဒေသနာကုသလာ;

ဣသိဒါသီ ဝစနမဗြဝိ, ‘‘သုဏ ဗောဓိ ယထာမှိ ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ.

Thus questioned in that secluded place, Isidāsī, who was skilled in teaching the Dhamma, spoke these words: 'Listen, Bodhi, to how I went forth.'

၄၀၇.

407.

‘‘ဥဇ္ဇေနိယာ ပုရဝရေ, မယှံ ပိတာ သီလသံဝုတော သေဋ္ဌိ;

တဿမှိ ဧကဓီတာ, ပိယာ မနာပါ စ ဒယိတာ စ.

“In the excellent city of Ujjenī, my father was a merchant, well-restrained by virtue. I was his only daughter, dear, pleasing, and beloved.”

၄၀၈.

408.

‘‘အထ မေ သာကေတတော ဝရကာ, အာဂစ္ဆုမုတ္တမကုလီနာ;

သေဋ္ဌီ ပဟူတရတနော, တဿ မမံ သုဏှမဒါသိ တာတော.

“Then from Sāketa a suitor came for me, from a preeminent family, a merchant of great wealth. My father gave me to him as a daughter-in-law.”

၄၀၉.

409.

‘‘သဿုယာ သဿုရဿ စ, သာယံ ပါတံ ပဏာမမုပဂမ္မ;

သိရသာ ကရောမိ ပါဒေ, ဝန္ဒာမိ ယထာမှိ အနုသိဋ္ဌာ.

“Morning and evening, I would approach my mother-in-law and father-in-law; I would pay homage with my head and worship their feet, just as I had been instructed.”

၄၁၀.

410.

‘‘ယာ မယှံ သာမိကဿ, ဘဂိနိယော ဘာတုနော ပရိဇနော ဝါ;

တမေကဝရကမ္ပိ ဒိသွာ, ဥဗ္ဗိဂ္ဂါ အာသနံ ဒေမိ.

“Upon seeing any of my husband's sisters or brothers, or any of his attendants, I would become flustered and offer my seat.”

၄၁၁.

411.

‘‘အန္နေန စ ပါနေန စ, ခဇ္ဇေန စ ယဉ္စ တတ္ထ သန္နိဟိတံ;

ဆာဒေမိ ဥပနယာမိ စ, ဒေမိ စ ယံ ယဿ ပတိရူပံ.

“With food, drink, and delicacies, and whatever else was prepared there, I would store things away and bring things out, giving to each person what was appropriate.”

၄၁၂.

412.

‘‘ကာလေန ဥပဋ္ဌဟိတွာ, ဃရံ သမုပဂမာမိ ဥမ္မာရေ;

ဓောဝန္တီ ဟတ္ထပါဒေ, ပဉ္ဇလိကာ သာမိကမုပေမိ.

“Rising at the proper time to attend to the household, I would wash my hands and feet at the threshold, and with palms joined in reverence, approach my husband.”

၄၁၃.

413.

‘‘ကောစ္ဆံ ပသာဒံ အဉ္ဇနိဉ္စ, အာဒါသကဉ္စ ဂဏှိတွာ;

ပရိကမ္မကာရိကာ ဝိယ, သယမေဝ ပတိံ ဝိဘူသေမိ.

“Taking a comb, cosmetic powder, eye-ointment, and a mirror, I myself would adorn my husband, just like a handmaiden.”

၄၁၄.

414.

‘‘သယမေဝ [Pg.426] ဩဒနံ သာဓယာမိ, သယမေဝ ဘာဇနံ ဓောဝန္တီ;

မာတာဝ ဧကပုတ္တကံ, တထာ ဘတ္တာရံ ပရိစရာမိ.

“I myself would cook the rice; I myself would wash the dishes. I served my husband just as a mother serves her only son.”

၄၁၅.

415.

‘‘ဧဝံ မံ ဘတ္တိကတံ, အနုရတ္တံ ကာရိကံ နိဟတမာနံ;

ဥဋ္ဌာယိကံ အနလသံ, သီလဝတိံ ဒုဿတေ ဘတ္တာ.

“Though I was so devoted, affectionate, dutiful, humble, energetic, diligent, and virtuous, my husband despised me.”

၄၁၆.

416.

‘‘သော မာတရဉ္စ ပိတရဉ္စ, ဘဏတိ ‘အာပုစ္ဆဟံ ဂမိဿာမိ;

ဣသိဒါသိယာ န သဟ ဝစ္ဆံ, ဧကာဂါရေဟံ သဟ ဝတ္ထုံ’.

“He said to his mother and father: ‘I will take my leave and go. I cannot live with Isidāsī, nor dwell with her in the same house.’”

၄၁၇.

417.

‘‘‘မာ ဧဝံ ပုတ္တ အဝစ, ဣသိဒါသီ ပဏ္ဍိတာ ပရိဗျတ္တာ;

ဥဋ္ဌာယိကာ အနလသာ, ကိံ တုယှံ န ရောစတေ ပုတ္တ’.

“‘Do not speak thus, son. Isidāsī is wise and competent, energetic and diligent. Why, son, does she not please you?’”

၄၁၈.

418.

‘‘‘န စ မေ ဟိံသတိ ကိဉ္စိ, န စဟံ ဣသိဒါသိယာ သဟ ဝစ္ဆံ;

ဒေဿာဝ မေ အလံ မေ, အပုစ္ဆာဟံ ဂမိဿာမိ’.

“‘She does not harm me in any way, but I will not live with Isidāsī. She is simply hateful to me. I have had enough of her. I will take my leave and go.’”

၄၁၉.

419.

‘‘တဿ ဝစနံ သုဏိတွာ, သဿု သသုရော စ မံ အပုစ္ဆိံသု;

‘ကိဿ တယာ အပရဒ္ဓံ, ဘဏ ဝိဿဋ္ဌာ ယထာဘူတံ’.

“Hearing his words, my mother-in-law and father-in-law asked me: ‘What wrong have you done? Speak freely and tell it as it truly is.’”

၄၂၀.

420.

‘‘‘နပိဟံ အပရဇ္ဈံ ကိဉ္စိ, နပိ ဟိံသေမိ န ဘဏာမိ ဒုဗ္ဗစနံ;

ကိံ သက္ကာ ကာတုယျေ, ယံ မံ ဝိဒ္ဒေဿတေ ဘတ္တာ’.

“‘I have not wronged him in any way, nor do I harm him or speak harsh words. Venerable ones, what can be done, when my husband despises me?’”

၄၂၁.

421.

‘‘တေ မံ ပိတုဃရံ ပဋိနယိံသု, ဝိမနာ ဒုခေန အဓိဘူတာ;

‘ပုတ္တမနုရက္ခမာနာ, ဇိတာမှသေ ရူပိနိံ လက္ခိံ’.

“Dejected and overwhelmed with sorrow, they led me back to my father’s house, saying: ‘Protecting our son, we have lost a beautiful goddess of fortune.’”

၄၂၂.

422.

‘‘အထ မံ အဒါသိ တာတော, အဍ္ဎဿ ဃရမှိ ဒုတိယကုလိကဿ;

တတော ဥပဍ္ဎသုင်္ကေန, ယေန မံ ဝိန္ဒထ သေဋ္ဌိ.

“Then my father gave me to the house of a wealthy man from a second family, for half the bride-price with which the first merchant had obtained me.”

၄၂၃.

423.

‘‘တဿပိ ဃရမှိ မာသံ, အဝသိံ အထ သောပိ မံ ပဋိစ္ဆရယိ ;

ဒါသီဝ ဥပဋ္ဌဟန္တိံ, အဒူသိကံ သီလသမ္ပန္နံ.

“In his house too I lived for a month; then he also rejected me, though I attended on him like a slave-girl, faultless and accomplished in virtue.”

၄၂၄.

424.

‘‘ဘိက္ခာယ စ ဝိစရန္တံ, ဒမကံ ဒန္တံ မေ ပိတာ ဘဏတိ;

‘ဟောဟိသိ မေ ဇာမာတာ, နိက္ခိပ ပေါဋ္ဌိဉ္စ ဃဋိကဉ္စ’.

My father said to a man wandering for alms, a tamer of others and disciplined in himself: ‘Be my son-in-law. Put aside your worn-out robe and your alms bowl.’

၄၂၅.

425.

‘‘သောပိ ဝသိတွာ ပက္ခံ, အထ တာတံ ဘဏတိ ‘ဒေဟိ မေ ပေါဋ္ဌိံ;

ဃဋိကဉ္စ မလ္လကဉ္စ, ပုနပိ ဘိက္ခံ စရိဿာမိ’.

He, after living with me for a fortnight, then said to my father: ‘Give me my worn-out robe, my alms bowl, and my cup. I will go wandering for alms again.’

၄၂၆.

426.

‘‘အထ [Pg.427] နံ ဘဏတီ တာတော, အမ္မာ သဗ္ဗော စ မေ ဉာတိဂဏဝဂ္ဂေါ;

‘ကိံ တေ န ကီရတိ ဣဓ, ဘဏ ခိပ္ပံ တံ တေ ကရိဟိ’တိ.

Then my father, my mother, and my entire assembly of relatives said to him: ‘What is not done for you here? Speak quickly, and it will be done for you.’

၄၂၇.

427.

‘‘ဧဝံ ဘဏိတော ဘဏတိ, ‘ယဒိ မေ အတ္တာ သက္ကောတိ အလံ မယှံ;

ဣသိဒါသိယာ န သဟ ဝစ္ဆံ, ဧကဃရေဟံ သဟ ဝတ္ထုံ’.

Thus addressed, he said: ‘If I can be my own master, I have no need for Isidāsī. I will not live with Isidāsī, nor dwell together with her in one house.’

၄၂၈.

428.

‘‘ဝိဿဇ္ဇိတော ဂတော သော, အဟမ္ပိ ဧကာကိနီ ဝိစိန္တေမိ;

‘အာပုစ္ဆိတူန ဂစ္ဆံ, မရိတုယေ ဝါ ပဗ္ဗဇိဿံ ဝါ’.

Being dismissed, he departed. I, alone, reflected: ‘Having taken leave, I shall go either to die or to go forth.’

၄၂၉.

429.

‘‘အထ အယျာ ဇိနဒတ္တာ, အာဂစ္ဆီ ဂေါစရာယ စရမာနာ;

တာတကုလံ ဝိနယဓရီ, ဗဟုဿုတာ သီလသမ္ပန္နာ.

Then the venerable Jinadattā came to my father’s house while wandering for her alms-round; she was a preserver of the Vinaya, very learned, and accomplished in virtue.

၄၃၀.

430.

‘‘တံ ဒိသွာန အမှာကံ, ဥဋ္ဌာယာသနံ တဿာ ပညာပယိံ;

နိသိန္နာယ စ ပါဒေ, ဝန္ဒိတွာ ဘောဇနမဒါသိံ.

Seeing her come to our home, I rose and prepared a seat for her. When she was seated, I paid homage at her feet and offered her food.

၄၃၁.

431.

‘‘အန္နေန စ ပါနေန စ, ခဇ္ဇေန စ ယဉ္စ တတ္ထ သန္နိဟိတံ;

သန္တပ္ပယိတွာ အဝစံ, ‘အယျေ ဣစ္ဆာမိ ပဗ္ဗဇိတုံ’.

Having satisfied her with food, drink, edibles, and whatever else was available there, I said: ‘Venerable lady, I wish to go forth.’

၄၃၂.

432.

‘‘အထ မံ ဘဏတီ တာတော, ‘ဣဓေဝ ပုတ္တက စရာဟိ တွံ ဓမ္မံ;

အန္နေန စ ပါနေန စ, တပ္ပယ သမဏေ ဒွိဇာတီ စ’.

Then my father said to me: ‘Dear child, practice the Dhamma right here. With food and drink, gratify ascetics and brahmins.’

၄၃၃.

433.

‘‘အထဟံ ဘဏာမိ တာတံ, ရောဒန္တီ အဉ္ဇလိံ ပဏာမေတွာ;

‘ပါပဉှိ မယာ ပကတံ, ကမ္မံ တံ နိဇ္ဇရေဿာမိ’.

Then, weeping and with hands joined in reverence, I said to my father: ‘Indeed, an evil kamma has been done by me. I shall wear out that kamma.’

၄၃၄.

434.

‘‘အထ မံ ဘဏတီ တာတော, ‘ပါပုဏ ဗောဓိဉ္စ အဂ္ဂဓမ္မဉ္စ;

နိဗ္ဗာနဉ္စ လဘဿု, ယံ သစ္ဆိကရီ ဒွိပဒသေဋ္ဌော’.

Then my father said to me: ‘May you attain awakening and the supreme Dhamma. May you obtain Nibbāna, which the Best of Bipeds realized.’

၄၃၅.

435.

‘‘မာတာပိတူ အဘိဝါဒယိတွာ, သဗ္ဗဉ္စ ဉာတိဂဏဝဂ္ဂံ;

သတ္တာဟံ ပဗ္ဗဇိတာ, တိဿော ဝိဇ္ဇာ အဖဿယိံ.

Having paid homage to my mother and father and to my entire assembly of relatives, within seven days of going forth I attained the three knowledges.

၄၃၆.

436.

‘‘ဇာနာမိ အတ္တနော သတ္တ, ဇာတိယော ယဿယံ ဖလဝိပါကော;

တံ တဝ အာစိက္ခိဿံ, တံ ဧကမနာ နိသာမေဟိ.

I know my own seven past lives, of which this is the fruit and result. I shall declare that to you; listen with a concentrated mind.

၄၃၇.

437.

‘‘နဂရမှိ ဧရကစ္ဆေ, သုဝဏ္ဏကာရော အဟံ ပဟူတဓနော;

ယောဗ္ဗနမဒေန မတ္တော သော, ပရဒါရံ အသေဝိဟံ.

In the city of Erakaccha, I was a wealthy goldsmith. Intoxicated with the pride of youth, I consorted with the wives of others.

၄၃၈.

438.

‘‘သောဟံ တတော စဝိတွာ, နိရယမှိ အပစ္စိသံ စိရံ;

ပက္ကော တတော စ ဥဋ္ဌဟိတွာ, မက္ကဋိယာ ကုစ္ဆိမောက္ကမိံ.

Passing away from there, I was cooked in hell for a long time. Rising from there, I was conceived in the womb of a female monkey.

၄၃၉.

439.

‘‘သတ္တာဟဇာတကံ [Pg.428] မံ, မဟာကပိ ယူထပေါ နိလ္လစ္ဆေသိ;

တဿေတံ ကမ္မဖလံ, ယထာပိ ဂန္တွာန ပရဒါရံ.

When I was seven days old, the great monkey who was leader of the troop castrated me. This was the fruit of that kamma, for having gone with another’s wife.

၄၄၀.

440.

‘‘သောဟံ တတော စဝိတွာ, ကာလံ ကရိတွာ သိန္ဓဝါရညေ;

ကာဏာယ စ ခဉ္ဇာယ စ, ဧဠကိယာ ကုစ္ဆိမောက္ကမိံ.

Passing away from there and dying in the Sindhava forest, I was conceived in the womb of a one-eyed and lame she-goat.

၄၄၁.

441.

‘‘ဒွါဒသ ဝဿာနိ အဟံ, နိလ္လစ္ဆိတော ဒါရကေ ပရိဝဟိတွာ;

ကိမိနာဝဋ္ဋော အကလ္လော, ယထာပိ ဂန္တွာန ပရဒါရံ.

For twelve years, castrated, I carried children about. Afflicted by worms and infirm—this was for having gone with another’s wife.

၄၄၂.

442.

‘‘သောဟံ တတော စဝိတွာ, ဂေါဝါဏိဇကဿ ဂါဝိယာ ဇာတော;

ဝစ္ဆော လာခါတမ္ဗော, နိလ္လစ္ဆိတော ဒွါဒသေ မာသေ.

Passing away from there, I was born as a lac-red calf to a cow of a cattle-trader. I was castrated in the twelfth month.

၄၄၃.

443.

‘‘ဝေါဎူန နင်္ဂလမဟံ, သကဋဉ္စ ဓာရယာမိ;

အန္ဓောဝဋ္ဋော အကလ္လော, ယထာပိ ဂန္တွာန ပရဒါရံ.

I pulled the plough and drew the cart. Blind, afflicted, and infirm—this was for having gone with another’s wife.

၄၄၄.

444.

‘‘သောဟံ တတော စဝိတွာ, ဝီထိယာ ဒါသိယာ ဃရေ ဇာတော;

နေဝ မဟိလာ န ပုရိသော, ယထာပိ ဂန္တွာန ပရဒါရံ.

Passing away from there, I was born in the house of a street slave-woman, as one who was neither female nor male—this was for having gone with another’s wife.

၄၄၅.

445.

‘‘တိံသတိဝဿမှိ မတော, သာကဋိကကုလမှိ ဒါရိကာ ဇာတာ;

ကပဏမှိ အပ္ပဘောဂေ, ဓနိက ပုရိသပါတဗဟုလမှိ.

Dying in my thirtieth year, I was born as a girl in a carter’s family—a wretched family with little property, much oppressed by creditors.

၄၄၆.

446.

‘‘တံ မံ တတော သတ္ထဝါဟော, ဥဿန္နာယ ဝိပုလာယ ဝဍ္ဎိယာ;

ဩကဍ္ဎတိ ဝိလပန္တိံ, အစ္ဆိန္ဒိတွာ ကုလဃရသ္မာ.

Then a caravan leader, on account of a large and accumulating debt, snatched me from my family home and dragged me away while I was weeping.

၄၄၇.

447.

‘‘အထ သောဠသမေ ဝဿေ, ဒိသွာ မံ ပတ္တယောဗ္ဗနံ ကညံ;

ဩရုန္ဓတဿ ပုတ္တော, ဂိရိဒါသော နာမ နာမေန.

Then in my sixteenth year, the son of that caravan leader, named Giridāsa, saw that I was a maiden who had come of age and took me as his wife.

၄၄၈.

448.

‘‘တဿပိ အညာ ဘရိယာ, သီလဝတီ ဂုဏဝတီ ယသဝတီ စ;

အနုရတ္တာ ဘတ္တာရံ, တဿာဟံ ဝိဒ္ဒေသနမကာသိံ.

He also had another wife, who was virtuous, endowed with good qualities, and renowned, and who was devoted to her husband. I caused him to feel aversion for her.

၄၄၉.

449.

‘‘တဿေတံ ကမ္မဖလံ, ယံ မံ အပကီရိတူန ဂစ္ဆန္တိ;

ဒါသီဝ ဥပဋ္ဌဟန္တိံ, တဿပိ အန္တော ကတော မယာ’’တိ.

This is the fruit of that kamma: that my husbands reject and leave me, even though I serve them like a slave-girl. But an end to that kamma has now been made by me.

… ဣသိဒါသီ ထေရီ….

The Therī Isidāsī.

စတ္တာလီသနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter of the Forties is finished.

၁၆. မဟာနိပါတော

16. The Great Chapter

၁. သုမေဓာထေရီဂါထာ

1. The Verses of the Therī Sumedhā

၄၅၀.

450.

မန္တာဝတိယာ [Pg.429] နဂရေ, ရညော ကောဉ္စဿ အဂ္ဂမဟေသိယာ;

ဓီတာ အာသိံ သုမေဓာ, ပသာဒိတာ သာသနကရေဟိ.

In the city of Mantāvatī, I was Sumedhā, the daughter of King Koñca’s chief queen, inspired by those who practice the teaching.

၄၅၁.

451.

သီလဝတီ စိတ္တကထာ, ဗဟုဿုတာ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနေ ဝိနီတာ;

မာတာပိတရော ဥပဂမ္မ, ဘဏတိ ‘‘ဥဘယော နိသာမေထ.

Virtuous, an eloquent speaker, very learned, and trained in the Buddha’s dispensation, I approached my mother and father and said: “Listen, both of you.

၄၅၂.

452.

‘‘နိဗ္ဗာနာဘိရတာဟံ, အသဿတံ ဘဝဂတံ ယဒိပိ ဒိဗ္ဗံ;

ကိမင်္ဂံ ပန တုစ္ဆာ ကာမာ, အပ္ပဿာဒါ ဗဟုဝိဃာတာ.

I delight in Nibbāna. Any state of becoming, even if divine, is impermanent. What then of sensual pleasures, which are empty, of little gratification, and of much vexation?

၄၅၃.

453.

‘‘ကာမာ ကဋုကာ အာသီဝိသူပမာ, ယေသု မုစ္ဆိတာ ဗာလာ;

တေ ဒီဃရတ္တံ နိရယေ, သမပ္ပိတာ ဟညန္တေ ဒုက္ခိတာ.

Sensual pleasures are bitter, like vipers, in which fools are infatuated. For a long time, being consigned to hell, they are tormented and afflicted.

၄၅၄.

454.

‘‘သောစန္တိ ပါပကမ္မာ, ဝိနိပါတေ ပါပဝဒ္ဓိနော သဒါ;

ကာယေန စ ဝါစာယ စ, မနသာ စ အသံဝုတာ ဗာလာ.

Fools unrestrained in body, speech, and mind always grieve in the states of deprivation, increasing their evil deeds.

၄၅၅.

455.

‘‘ဗာလာ တေ ဒုပ္ပညာ, အစေတနာ ဒုက္ခသမုဒယောရုဒ္ဓါ;

ဒေသန္တေ အဇာနန္တာ, န ဗုဇ္ဈရေ အရိယသစ္စာနိ.

Those fools, unwise and witless, are obstructed by the origin of suffering. Though it is taught, they do not know and do not awaken to the Noble Truths.

၄၅၆.

456.

‘‘သစ္စာနိ အမ္မ ဗုဒ္ဓဝရဒေသိတာနိ, တေ ဗဟုတရာ အဇာနန္တာ ယေ;

အဘိနန္ဒန္တိ ဘဝဂတံ, ပိဟေန္တိ ဒေဝေသု ဥပပတ္တိံ.

Mother, very many are those who do not know the truths taught by the excellent Buddha; they delight in the state of becoming and yearn for rebirth among the gods.

၄၅၇.

457.

‘‘ဒေဝေသုပိ ဥပပတ္တိ, အသဿတာ ဘဝဂတေ အနိစ္စမှိ;

န စ သန္တသန္တိ ဗာလာ, ပုနပ္ပုနံ ဇာယိတဗ္ဗဿ.

Rebirth even among the gods is impermanent, within the impermanent state of becoming. Yet fools are not terrified of having to be born again and again.

၄၅၈.

458.

‘‘စတ္တာရော ဝိနိပါတာ, ဒုဝေ စ ဂတိယော ကထဉ္စိ လဗ္ဘန္တိ;

န စ ဝိနိပါတဂတာနံ, ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇာ အတ္ထိ နိရယေသု.

There are four states of deprivation, and the two good destinations are attained only with difficulty. For those who have gone to the states of deprivation, there is no going forth in the hells.

၄၅၉.

459.

‘‘အနုဇာနာထ မံ ဥဘယော, ပဗ္ဗဇိတုံ ဒသဗလဿ ပါဝစနေ;

အပ္ပောဿုက္ကာ ဃဋိဿံ, ဇာတိမရဏပ္ပဟာနာယ.

Permit me, both of you, to go forth in the teaching of the Ten-Powered One. Free from worldly concerns, I will strive for the abandoning of birth and death.

၄၆၀.

460.

‘‘ကိံ ဘဝဂတေ အဘိနန္ဒိတေန, ကာယကလိနာ အသာရေန;

ဘဝတဏှာယ နိရောဓာ, အနုဇာနာထ ပဗ္ဗဇိဿာမိ.

“What is the use of delighting in this existence, which is afflictive to the body and without substance? For the cessation of craving for existence, permit me; I shall go forth.”

၄၆၁.

461.

‘‘ဗုဒ္ဓါနံ [Pg.430] ဥပ္ပာဒေါ ဝိဝဇ္ဇိတော, အက္ခဏော ခဏော လဒ္ဓေါ;

သီလာနိ ဗြဟ္မစရိယံ, ယာဝဇီဝံ န ဒူသေယျံ’’.

“The arising of the Buddhas has been encountered; the inopportune moment has been avoided, the opportune moment gained. As long as I live, I shall not defile the moral precepts and the holy life.”

၄၆၂.

462.

ဧဝံ ဘဏတိ သုမေဓာ, မာတာပိတရော ‘‘န တာဝ အာဟာရံ;

အာဟရိဿံ ဂဟဋ္ဌာ, မရဏဝသံ ဂတာဝ ဟေဿာမိ’’.

Thus Sumedhā said to her mother and father: “As long as I remain a householder, I shall not take food; I shall surely come under the sway of death.”

၄၆၃.

463.

မာတာ ဒုက္ခိတာ ရောဒတိ ပိတာ စ, အဿာ သဗ္ဗသော သမဘိဟတော;

ဃဋေန္တိ သညာပေတုံ, ပါသာဒတလေ ဆမာပတိတံ.

Her afflicted mother weeps, and her father too, utterly stricken. They strive to persuade her as she lies fallen on the ground of the palace terrace.

၄၆၄.

464.

‘‘ဥဋ္ဌေဟိ ပုတ္တက ကိံ သောစိတေန, ဒိန္နာသိ ဝါရဏဝတိမှိ;

ရာဇာ အနီကရတ္တော, အဘိရူပေါ တဿ တွံ ဒိန္နာ.

“Rise, dear child, what is the use of grieving? You have been given in marriage in Vāraṇavatī. King Anīkaratta is handsome; to him you are given.”

၄၆၅.

465.

‘‘အဂ္ဂမဟေသီ ဘဝိဿသိ, အနိကရတ္တဿ ရာဇိနော ဘရိယာ;

သီလာနိ ဗြဟ္မစရိယံ, ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇာ ဒုက္ကရာ ပုတ္တက.

“You will be the chief queen, the wife of King Anīkaratta. Moral precepts, the holy life, and the going forth are difficult, my child.”

၄၆၆.

466.

‘‘ရဇ္ဇေ အာဏာဓနမိဿရိယံ, ဘောဂါ သုခါ ဒဟရိကာသိ;

ဘုဉ္ဇာဟိ ကာမဘောဂေ, ဝါရေယျံ ဟောတု တေ ပုတ္တ’’.

“In the kingdom there is command, wealth, and sovereignty, enjoyments and pleasures. You are young; enjoy the sensual pleasures. Let there be a wedding for you, my child.”

၄၆၇.

467.

အထ နေ ဘဏတိ သုမေဓာ, ‘‘မာ ဧဒိသိကာနိ ဘဝဂတမသာရံ;

ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇာ ဝါ ဟောဟိတိ, မရဏံ ဝါ မေ န စေဝ ဝါရေယျံ.

Then Sumedhā said to them: “Let there not be such things for me! Existence is without substance. For me, it will be either the going forth or death; there will surely be no wedding.”

၄၆၈.

468.

‘‘ကိမိဝ ပူတိကာယမသုစိံ, သဝနဂန္ဓံ ဘယာနကံ ကုဏပံ;

အဘိသံဝိသေယျံ ဘသ္တံ, အသကိံ ပဂ္ဃရိတံ အသုစိပုဏ္ဏံ.

“How could I enter into this foul, impure body, this terrifying corpse with its oozing stench, a leather bag constantly oozing and full of filth?”

၄၆၉.

469.

‘‘ကိမိဝ တာဟံ ဇာနန္တီ, ဝိကုလကံ မံသသောဏိတုပလိတ္တံ;

ကိမိကုလာလယံ သကုဏဘတ္တံ, ကဠေဝရံ ကိဿ ဒိယျတိ.

“Knowing this corpse to be disgusting, smeared with flesh and blood, an abode for worms, and food for birds—for what reason is it given away?”

၄၇၀.

470.

‘‘နိဗ္ဗုယှတိ သုသာနံ, အစိရံ ကာယော အပေတဝိညာဏော;

ဆုဒ္ဓေါ ကဠိင်္ဂရံ ဝိယ, ဇိဂုစ္ဆမာနေဟိ ဉာတီဟိ.

“Before long, this body, devoid of consciousness, is carried to the charnel ground. It is cast away like a useless log by one’s own disgusted relatives.”

၄၇၁.

471.

‘‘ဆုဒ္ဓူန နံ သုသာနေ, ပရဘတ္တံ နှာယန္တိ ဇိဂုစ္ဆန္တာ;

နိယကာ မာတာပိတရော, ကိံ ပန သာဓာရဏာ ဇနတာ.

“Having cast it away in the charnel ground as food for other creatures, one’s own mother and father bathe in disgust. What then to say of ordinary people?”

၄၇၂.

472.

‘‘အဇ္ဈောသိတာ အသာရေ, ကဠေဝရေ အဋ္ဌိနှာရုသံဃာတေ;

ခေဠဿုစ္စာရဿဝ, ပရိပုဏ္ဏေ ပူတိကာယမှိ.

“Fools are attached to this insubstantial corpse, a framework of bones and sinews, this foul body full of spittle, feces, and urine.”

၄၇၃.

473.

‘‘ယော [Pg.431] နံ ဝိနိဗ္ဘုဇိတွာ, အဗ္ဘန္တရမဿ ဗာဟိရံ ကယိရာ;

ဂန္ဓဿ အသဟမာနာ, သကာပိ မာတာ ဇိဂုစ္ဆေယျ.

“If one were to dissect it and turn its inside out, unable to bear the stench, even one’s own mother would be disgusted.”

၄၇၄.

474.

‘‘ခန္ဓဓာတုအာယတနံ, သင်္ခတံ ဇာတိမူလကံ ဒုက္ခံ;

ယောနိသော အနုဝိစိနန္တီ, ဝါရေယျံ ကိဿ ဣစ္ဆေယျံ.

“The aggregates, elements, and sense bases are conditioned phenomena, suffering rooted in birth. Investigating this systematically, for what reason should I desire a wedding?”

၄၇၅.

475.

‘‘ဒိဝသေ ဒိဝသေ တိသတ္တိ, သတာနိ နဝနဝါ ပတေယျုံ ကာယမှိ;

ဝဿသတမ္ပိ စ ဃာတော, သေယျော ဒုက္ခဿ စေဝံ ခယော.

“If, day by day, three hundred brand new spears were to fall upon this body, and this slaughter were to continue for a hundred years—this would be better, if it meant the end of suffering.”

၄၇၆.

476.

‘‘အဇ္ဈုပဂစ္ဆေ ဃာတံ, ယော ဝိညာယေဝံ သတ္ထုနော ဝစနံ;

‘ဒီဃော တေသံ သံသာရော, ပုနပ္ပုနံ ဟညမာနာနံ’.

“One who understands the Teacher's word thus should endure such an assault, for ‘Long is the saṃsāra for those who are repeatedly afflicted.’”

၄၇၇.

477.

‘‘ဒေဝေသု မနုဿေသု စ, တိရစ္ဆာနယောနိယာ အသုရကာယေ;

ပေတေသု စ နိရယေသု စ, အပရိမိတာ ဒိဿရေ ဃာတာ.

“Among gods and humans, in the animal realm and the host of asuras, among the spirits and in the hells—immeasurable afflictions are seen.”

၄၇၈.

478.

‘‘ဃာတာ နိရယေသု ဗဟူ, ဝိနိပါတဂတဿ ပီဠိယမာနဿ ;

ဒေဝေသုပိ အတ္တာဏံ, နိဗ္ဗာနသုခါ ပရံ နတ္ထိ.

“There are many afflictions in the hells for one who is being tormented, having gone to a state of deprivation. Even among the gods there is no refuge; there is no happiness more excellent than the bliss of Nibbāna.”

၄၇၉.

479.

‘‘ပတ္တာ တေ နိဗ္ဗာနံ, ယေ ယုတ္တာ ဒသဗလဿ ပါဝစနေ;

အပ္ပောဿုက္ကာ ဃဋေန္တိ, ဇာတိမရဏပ္ပဟာနာယ.

“They have attained Nibbāna who are devoted to the teaching of the Ten-Powered One. Unconcerned with other matters, they strive for the abandoning of birth and death.”

၄၈၀.

480.

‘‘အဇ္ဇေဝ တာတဘိနိက္ခမိဿံ, ဘောဂေဟိ ကိံ အသာရေဟိ;

နိဗ္ဗိန္နာ မေ ကာမာ, ဝန္တသမာ တာလဝတ္ထုကတာ’’.

“This very day, my parents, I shall go forth! What use are these worthless enjoyments? I am disgusted with sensual pleasures; they are like vomit, made like a palm-tree stump.”

၄၈၁.

481.

သာ စေဝံ ဘဏတိ ပိတရမနီကရတ္တော စ ယဿ သာ ဒိန္နာ;

ဥပယာသိ ဝါရဏဝတေ, ဝါရေယျမုပဋ္ဌိတေ ကာလေ.

She spoke thus to her parents. And Anīkaratta, to whom she had been given, approached Vāraṇavatī, as the time for the wedding was at hand.

၄၈၂.

482.

အထ အသိတနိစိတမုဒုကေ, ကေသေ ခဂ္ဂေန ဆိန္ဒိယ သုမေဓာ;

ပါသာဒံ ပိဒဟိတွာ, ပဌမဇ္ဈာနံ သမာပဇ္ဇိ.

Then Sumedhā cut off her dark, thick, soft hair with a sword, shut the palace door, and entered upon the first jhāna.

၄၈၃.

483.

သာ စ တဟိံ သမာပန္နာ, အနီကရတ္တော စ အာဂတော နဂရံ;

ပါသာဒေ စ သုမေဓာ, အနိစ္စသညံ သုဘာဝေတိ.

While she was absorbed in meditation there, Anīkaratta arrived in the city. And in the palace, Sumedhā was developing the perception of impermanence.

၄၈၄.

484.

သာ စ မနသိ ကရောတိ, အနီကရတ္တော စ အာရုဟီ တုရိတံ;

မဏိကနကဘူသိတင်္ဂေါ, ကတဉ္ဇလီ ယာစတိ သုမေဓံ.

While she was reflecting, Anīkaratta quickly ascended. His limbs adorned with gems and gold, with hands clasped in reverence, he pleaded with Sumedhā.

၄၈၅.

485.

‘‘ရဇ္ဇေ အာဏာဓနမိဿရိယံ, ဘောဂါ သုခါ ဒဟရိကာသိ;

ဘုဉ္ဇာဟိ ကာမဘောဂေ, ကာမသုခါ ဒုလ္လဘာ လောကေ.

“In the kingdom there is command, wealth, and sovereignty; there are enjoyments and pleasures, and you are young. Enjoy sensual pleasures; such sensual joys are rare in the world.”

၄၈၆.

486.

‘‘နိဿဋ္ဌံ [Pg.432] တေ ရဇ္ဇံ, ဘောဂေ ဘုဉ္ဇဿု ဒေဟိ ဒါနာနိ;

မာ ဒုမ္မနာ အဟောသိ, မာတာပိတရော တေ ဒုက္ခိတာ’’.

“The kingdom has been handed over to you. Enjoy its wealth and give gifts. Do not be dejected; your parents are distressed.”

၄၈၇.

487.

တံ တံ ဘဏတိ သုမေဓာ, ကာမေဟိ အနတ္ထိကာ ဝိဂတမောဟာ;

‘‘မာ ကာမေ အဘိနန္ဒိ, ကာမေသွာဒီနဝံ ပဿ.

To him Sumedhā, who had no need for sensual pleasures and was free from delusion, said this: “Do not delight in sensual pleasures; see the danger in them.”

၄၈၈.

488.

‘‘စာတုဒ္ဒီပေါ ရာဇာ မန္ဓာတာ, အာသိ ကာမဘောဂိန မဂ္ဂေါ;

အတိတ္တော ကာလင်္ကတော, န စဿ ပရိပူရိတာ ဣစ္ဆာ.

“King Mandhātā, ruler of the four continents, was the foremost of those who enjoy sensual pleasures. Yet he died unsatisfied, his desires unfulfilled.”

၄၈၉.

489.

‘‘သတ္တ ရတနာနိ ဝဿေယျ, ဝုဋ္ဌိမာ ဒသဒိသာ သမန္တေန;

န စတ္ထိ တိတ္တိ ကာမာနံ, အတိတ္တာဝ မရန္တိ နရာ.

“Even if a cloud were to rain the seven kinds of jewels all around in the ten directions, there would be no satisfaction in sensual pleasures. People die still unsatisfied.”

၄၉၀.

490.

‘‘အသိသူနူပမာ ကာမာ, ကာမာ သပ္ပသိရောပမာ;

ဥက္ကောပမာ အနုဒဟန္တိ, အဋ္ဌိကင်္ကလ သန္နိဘာ.

“Sensual pleasures are like a sword and stake; they are like a snake’s head. Like a torch, they burn; they are like a skeleton.”

၄၉၁.

491.

‘‘အနိစ္စာ အဒ္ဓုဝါ ကာမာ, ဗဟုဒုက္ခာ မဟာဝိသာ;

အယောဂုဠောဝ သန္တတ္တော, အဃမူလာ ဒုခပ္ဖလာ.

“Sensual pleasures are impermanent and transient, full of suffering and great poison. They are like a heated iron ball, the root of misery, bearing painful fruit.”

၄၉၂.

492.

‘‘ရုက္ခပ္ဖလူပမာ ကာမာ, မံသပေသူပမာ ဒုခါ;

သုပိနောပမာ ဝဉ္စနိယာ, ကာမာ ယာစိတကူပမာ.

“Sensual pleasures are like the fruit of a tree, painful like a piece of flesh. They are deceptive like a dream, like borrowed goods.”

၄၉၃.

493.

‘‘သတ္တိသူလူပမာ ကာမာ, ရောဂေါ ဂဏ္ဍော အဃံ နိဃံ;

အင်္ဂါရကာသုသဒိသာ, အဃမူလံ ဘယံ ဝဓော.

“Sensual pleasures are like spears and stakes; they are a disease, a boil, misery, and a calamity. They are like a pit of embers, the root of misery, a cause of fear and slaughter.”

၄၉၄.

494.

‘‘ဧဝံ ဗဟုဒုက္ခာ ကာမာ, အက္ခာတာ အန္တရာယိကာ;

ဂစ္ဆထ န မေ ဘဂဝတေ, ဝိဿာသော အတ္ထိ အတ္တနော.

“Thus sensual pleasures, with their great suffering, have been declared to be obstacles. Go away! I have no trust in my own existence.”

၄၉၅.

495.

‘‘ကိံ မမ ပရော ကရိဿတိ, အတ္တနော သီသမှိ ဍယှမာနမှိ;

အနုဗန္ဓေ ဇရာမရဏေ, တဿ ဃာတာယ ဃဋိတဗ္ဗံ’’.

“What can another do for me when my own head is on fire? When aging and death are in pursuit, one must strive for their destruction.”

၄၉၆.

496.

ဒွါရံ အပါပုရိတွာနဟံ, မာတာပိတရော အနီကရတ္တဉ္စ;

ဒိသွာန ဆမံ နိသိန္နေ, ရောဒန္တေ ဣဒမဝေါစံ.

Opening the door, I saw my parents and Anīkaratta. Seeing them sitting on the ground weeping, I spoke these words:

၄၉၇.

497.

‘‘ဒီဃော ဗာလာနံ သံသာရော, ပုနပ္ပုနဉ္စ ရောဒတံ;

အနမတဂ္ဂေ ပိတု မရဏေ, ဘာတု ဝဓေ အတ္တနော စ ဝဓေ.

“Long is the saṃsāra for fools who weep again and again in this beginningless round at the death of a father, the slaughter of a brother, and their own slaughter.”

၄၉၈.

498.

‘‘အဿု ထညံ ရုဓိရံ, သံသာရံ အနမတဂ္ဂတော သရထ;

သတ္တာနံ သံသရတံ, သရာဟိ အဋ္ဌီနဉ္စ သန္နိစယံ.

“Remember the tears, the mother’s milk, and the blood of beings wandering on in this beginningless saṃsāra. Remember the heap of their bones.”

၄၉၉.

499.

‘‘သရ [Pg.433] စတုရောဒဓီ, ဥပနီတေ အဿုထညရုဓိရမှိ;

သရ ဧကကပ္ပမဋ္ဌီနံ, သဉ္စယံ ဝိပုလေန သမံ.

“Remember the four oceans brought as a comparison for the tears, milk, and blood. Remember the pile of a single person's bones in one eon, equal to Mount Vepulla.”

၅၀၀.

500.

‘‘အနမတဂ္ဂေ သံသရတော, မဟိံ ဇမ္ဗုဒီပမုပနီတံ;

ကောလဋ္ဌိမတ္တဂုဠိကာ, မာတာ မာတုသွေဝ နပ္ပဟောန္တိ.

For one wandering in beginningless saṃsāra, if one were to make pellets the size of jujube kernels from all the earth in Jambudīpa, they would not be enough to count one’s mothers and grandmothers.

၅၀၁.

501.

‘‘တိဏကဋ္ဌသာခါပလာသံ, ဥပနီတံ အနမတဂ္ဂတော သရ;

စတုရင်္ဂုလိကာ ဃဋိကာ, ပိတုပိတုသွေဝ နပ္ပဟောန္တိ.

Remember the simile of the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves from beginningless time: cut into four-finger-breadth pieces, they would not be enough for one's fathers and grandfathers.

၅၀၂.

502.

‘‘သရ ကာဏကစ္ဆပံ ပုဗ္ဗသမုဒ္ဒေ, အပရတော စ ယုဂဆိဒ္ဒံ;

သိရံ တဿ စ ပဋိမုက္ကံ, မနုဿလာဘမှိ ဩပမ္မံ.

Remember the simile for gaining a human birth: the blind turtle in the eastern ocean and the yoke with a hole in the western, and its head passing through the hole.

၅၀၃.

503.

‘‘သရ ရူပံ ဖေဏပိဏ္ဍောပမဿ, ကာယကလိနော အသာရဿ;

ခန္ဓေ ပဿ အနိစ္စေ, သရာဟိ နိရယေ ဗဟုဝိဃာတေ.

Remember that the form of this insubstantial, vile body is like a lump of foam. See the aggregates as impermanent, and remember the hells with their many vexations.

၅၀၄.

504.

‘‘သရ ကဋသိံ ဝဍ္ဎေန္တေ, ပုနပ္ပုနံ တာသု တာသု ဇာတီသု;

သရ ကုမ္ဘီလဘယာနိ စ, သရာဟိ စတ္တာရိ သစ္စာနိ.

Remember those who enlarge the charnel ground again and again in their various births. Remember the dangers from crocodiles, and remember the Four Noble Truths.

၅၀၅.

505.

‘‘အမတမှိ ဝိဇ္ဇမာနေ, ကိံ တဝ ပဉ္စကဋုကေန ပီတေန;

သဗ္ဗာ ဟိ ကာမရတိယော, ကဋုကတရာ ပဉ္စကဋုကေန.

When the Deathless is available, what is the use of drinking the five-spiced tonic? For all sensual delights are more bitter than that five-spiced tonic.

၅၀၆.

506.

‘‘အမတမှိ ဝိဇ္ဇမာနေ, ကိံ တဝ ကာမေဟိ ယေ ပရိဠာဟာ ;

သဗ္ဗာ ဟိ ကာမရတိယော, ဇလိတာ ကုထိတာ ကမ္ပိတာ သန္တာပိတာ.

When the Deathless is available, what use to you are sensual pleasures, which are a burning torment? For all sensual delights are ablaze, seething, trembling, and scorching.

၅၀၇.

507.

‘‘အသပတ္တမှိ သမာနေ, ကိံ တဝ ကာမေဟိ ယေ ဗဟုသပတ္တာ;

ရာဇဂ္ဂိစောရဥဒကပ္ပိယေဟိ, သာဓာရဏာ ကာမာ ဗဟုသပတ္တာ.

When that which is without enemies is available, what use to you are sensual pleasures, which have many enemies? Sensual pleasures are shared with kings, fire, thieves, water, and unloved heirs; they have many enemies.

၅၀၈.

508.

‘‘မောက္ခမှိ ဝိဇ္ဇမာနေ, ကိံ တဝ ကာမေဟိ ယေသု ဝဓဗန္ဓော;

ကာမေသု ဟိ အသကာမာ, ဝဓဗန္ဓဒုခါနိ အနုဘောန္တိ.

When liberation is available, what use to you are sensual pleasures, in which there is slaughter and bondage? For in sensual pleasures, the unwilling experience the sufferings of slaughter and bondage.

၅၀၉.

509.

‘‘အာဒီပိတာ တိဏုက္ကာ, ဂဏှန္တံ ဒဟန္တိ နေဝ မုဉ္စန္တံ;

ဥက္ကောပမာ ဟိ ကာမာ, ဒဟန္တိ ယေ တေ န မုဉ္စန္တိ.

A blazing grass torch burns the one who grasps it, but not the one who lets it go. For sensual pleasures are like a torch: they burn those who do not release them.

၅၁၀.

510.

‘‘မာ အပ္ပကဿ ဟေတု, ကာမသုခဿ ဝိပုလံ ဇဟီ သုခံ;

မာ ပုထုလောမောဝ ဗဠိသံ, ဂိလိတွာ ပစ္ဆာ ဝိဟညသိ.

Do not, for the sake of a slight sensual pleasure, give up abundant happiness; do not, like a fish that has swallowed a hook, be tormented afterwards.

၅၁၁.

511.

‘‘ကာမံ [Pg.434] ကာမေသု ဒမဿု, တာဝ သုနခေါဝ သင်္ခလာဗဒ္ဓေါ;

ကာဟိန္တိ ခု တံ ကာမာ, ဆာတာ သုနခံဝ စဏ္ဍာလာ.

Indeed, first tame yourself in regard to sensual pleasures; you are like a dog bound by a chain. For sensual pleasures will bring you to ruin, just as outcastes do to a hungry dog.

၅၁၂.

512.

‘‘အပရိမိတဉ္စ ဒုက္ခံ, ဗဟူနိ စ စိတ္တဒေါမနဿာနိ;

အနုဘောဟိသိ ကာမယုတ္တော, ပဋိနိဿဇ အဒ္ဓုဝေ ကာမေ.

Yoked to sensual pleasures, you will experience immeasurable suffering and many kinds of mental distress. Relinquish these impermanent sensual pleasures.

၅၁၃.

513.

‘‘အဇရမှိ ဝိဇ္ဇမာနေ, ကိံ တဝ ကာမေဟိ ယေသု ဇရာ;

မရဏဗျာဓိဂဟိတာ, သဗ္ဗာ သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဇာတိယော.

When the ageless is available, what use to you are sensual pleasures, in which there is aging? All births everywhere are seized by death and sickness.

၅၁၄.

514.

‘‘ဣဒမဇရမိဒမမရံ, ဣဒမဇရာမရံ ပဒမသောကံ;

အသပတ္တမသမ္ဗာဓံ, အခလိတမဘယံ နိရုပတာပံ.

This is the ageless, this is the deathless, this is the ageless and deathless state, sorrowless, without enemies, unconfined, faultless, fearless, and untroubled.

၅၁၅.

515.

‘‘အဓိဂတမိဒံ ဗဟူဟိ, အမတံ အဇ္ဇာပိ စ လဘနီယမိဒံ;

ယော ယောနိသော ပယုဉ္ဇတိ, န စ သက္ကာ အဃဋမာနေန’’.

This deathless state has been attained by many, and even today it is attainable by one who strives wisely; but it cannot be attained by one who makes no effort.

၅၁၆.

516.

ဧဝံ ဘဏတိ သုမေဓာ, သင်္ခါရဂတေ ရတိံ အလဘမာနာ;

အနုနေန္တီ အနိကရတ္တံ, ကေသေ စ ဆမံ ခိပိ သုမေဓာ.

Thus spoke Sumedhā, who found no delight in conditioned existence. Persuading Anikaratta, Sumedhā threw her hair onto the ground.

၅၁၇.

517.

ဥဋ္ဌာယ အနိကရတ္တော, ပဉ္ဇလိကော ယာစိတဿာ ပိတရံ သော;

‘‘ဝိဿဇ္ဇေထ သုမေဓံ, ပဗ္ဗဇိတုံ ဝိမောက္ခသစ္စဒဿာ’’.

Having risen, Anikaratta, with hands clasped in reverence, begged her father: ‘Please release Sumedhā to go forth; may she see the truth of liberation.’

၅၁၈.

518.

ဝိဿဇ္ဇိတာ မာတာပိတူဟိ, ပဗ္ဗဇိ သောကဘယဘီတာ;

ဆ အဘိညာ သစ္ဆိကတာ, အဂ္ဂဖလံ သိက္ခမာနာယ.

Released by her mother and father, she went forth, fearful of sorrow and dread. While training, the six supernormal knowledges and the highest fruit were realized by her.

၅၁၉.

519.

အစ္ဆရိယမဗ္ဘုတံ တံ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ အာသိ ရာဇကညာယ;

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသစရိတံ, ယထာ ဗျာကရိ ပစ္ဆိမေ ကာလေ.

Amazing and wonderful was the Nibbāna of the princess. The account of her past lives is to be known as she declared it at the final time.

၅၂၀.

520.

‘‘ဘဂဝတိ ကောဏာဂမနေ, သံဃာရာမမှိ နဝနိဝေသမှိ;

သခိယော တိဿော ဇနိယော, ဝိဟာရဒါနံ အဒါသိမှ.

During the time of the Blessed One Koṇāgamana, at a newly established monastery for the Saṅgha, we, three female friends, gave the gift of a monastery.

၅၂၁.

521.

‘‘ဒသက္ခတ္တုံ သတက္ခတ္တုံ, ဒသသတက္ခတ္တုံ သတာနိ စ သတက္ခတ္တုံ;

ဒေဝေသု ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇိမှ, ကော ပန ဝါဒေါ မနုဿေသု.

Ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, and ten thousand times we were reborn among the devas—what then is there to say of rebirth among humans?

၅၂၂.

522.

‘‘ဒေဝေသု မဟိဒ္ဓိကာ အဟုမှ, မာနုသကမှိ ကော ပန ဝါဒေါ;

သတ္တရတနဿ မဟေသီ, ဣတ္ထိရတနံ အဟံ အာသိံ.

We were of great power among the devas—what then is there to say of the human state? I was the chief queen of a wheel-turning monarch endowed with the seven treasures, the woman-treasure.

၅၂၃.

523.

‘‘သော [Pg.435] ဟေတု သော ပဘဝေါ, တံ မူလံ သာဝ သာသနေ ခန္တီ;

တံ ပဌမသမောဓာနံ, တံ ဓမ္မရတာယ နိဗ္ဗာနံ’’.

That was the cause, that the source, that the root, that very acceptance in the Dispensation. That was the first conjunction, that Nibbāna through delight in the Dhamma.

၅၂၄.

524.

ဧဝံ ကရောန္တိ ယေ သဒ္ဒဟန္တိ, ဝစနံ အနောမပညဿ;

နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒန္တိ ဘဝဂတေ, နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒိတွာ ဝိရဇ္ဇန္တီတိ.

Thus do they act who have faith in the word of the one of noble wisdom. They become disenchanted with the round of existence; having become disenchanted, they become dispassionate.

ဣတ္ထံ သုဒံ သုမေဓာ ထေရီ ဂါထာယော အဘာသိတ္ထာတိ.

Thus, it is said, the elder nun Sumedhā spoke these verses.

မဟာနိပါတော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Great Chapter is finished.

သမတ္တာ ထေရီဂါထာယော.

The Verses of the Elder Nuns are complete.

ဂါထာသတာနိ စတ္တာရိ, အသီတိ ပုန စုဒ္ဒသ ;

ထေရိယေကုတ္တရသတာ, သဗ္ဗာ တာ အာသဝက္ခယာတိ.

Four hundred and eighty, and fourteen more verses; one hundred and one elder nuns, all of whom have destroyed the taints.

ထေရီဂါထာပါဠိ နိဋ္ဌိတာ.

The Pāḷi of the Verses of the Elder Nuns is finished.