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Previous Chapter 9. The Book of the Nines

10.

The Book of the Elevens

1.

Verses of the Elder Nun Kisāgotamī

213.

"Good friendship was praised by the sage, having pointed out to the world;

Associating with good friends, even a fool would become wise.

214.

"Good persons should be associated with, wisdom thus grows for those who associate with them;

Associating with good persons, one would be freed from all sufferings.

215.

"One should cognize suffering, and the origin and cessation of suffering;

And the eightfold path, and also the four noble truths.

216.

"Womanhood is suffering, declared by the guide of men to be tamed;

Living with a co-wife is also suffering, some women having given birth just once.

217.

"Some even cut their throats, delicate women eat poison;

Caught in the midst of birth and death, both experience disasters.

218.

"Going along near to giving birth, I saw my husband dead;

Having given birth on the road, not yet having reached my own home.

219.

"Two sons have died, and my husband died on the road for the wretched woman;

Mother, father, and brother are burning on a single funeral pyre.

220.

"O you of ruined family, O wretched one, immeasurable is the suffering experienced by you;

And tears have flowed from you, through many thousands of births.

221.

"I dwelt in the midst of a cemetery, and also ate the flesh of my sons;

With family destroyed, blamed by all, with husband dead, I attained the Deathless.

222.

"The path has been developed by me, the noble eightfold path leading to the Deathless;

Nibbāna has been realized, I have looked into the mirror of the Dhamma.

223.

"I am one with the dart removed, the burden laid down, what was to be done has been done;

Kisā Gotamī, the elder nun, with liberated mind, spoke this."

... The elder nun Kisā Gotamī...

The Chapter of Elevens is concluded.

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