10.
The Book of the Elevens
1.
Verses of the Elder Nun Kisāgotamī
Associating with good friends, even a fool would become wise.
Associating with good persons, one would be freed from all sufferings.
And the eightfold path, and also the four noble truths.
Living with a co-wife is also suffering, some women having given birth just once.
Caught in the midst of birth and death, both experience disasters.
Having given birth on the road, not yet having reached my own home.
Mother, father, and brother are burning on a single funeral pyre.
And tears have flowed from you, through many thousands of births.
With family destroyed, blamed by all, with husband dead, I attained the Deathless.
Nibbāna has been realized, I have looked into the mirror of the Dhamma.
Kisā Gotamī, the elder nun, with liberated mind, spoke this."
... The elder nun Kisā Gotamī...
The Chapter of Elevens is concluded.