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10.

The Book of the Elevens

1.

Verses of the Elder Nun Kisāgotamī

213.More DetailsCommentaries

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

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

214.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

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

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

216.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

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

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

218.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

"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.More DetailsCommentaries

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

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

223.More DetailsCommentaries

"I am one with the dart removed, the burden laid down, what had 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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