{"id":"thig10.1","title":"Kisāgotamī","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thig10.1","title":"Kisāgotamī","units":[{"id":"thig10.1:0","sourceIds":["thig10.1:0.1","thig10.1:0.2","thig10.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Therīgāthā 10.1\nEkādasakanipāta\nKisāgotamītherīgāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Nuns 10.1\nThe Book of the Elevens\nKisāgotamī"}},{"id":"thig10.1:1","sourceIds":["thig10.1:1.1","thig10.1:1.2","thig10.1:1.3","thig10.1:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kalyāṇamittatā muninā,\nlokaṁ ādissa vaṇṇitā;\nKalyāṇamitte bhajamāno,\napi bālo paṇḍito assa.","en":"“Pointing out how the world works,\nthe sages have praised good friendship.\nAssociating with good friends,\neven a fool becomes astute."}},{"id":"thig10.1:2","sourceIds":["thig10.1:2.1","thig10.1:2.2","thig10.1:2.3","thig10.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhajitabbā sappurisā,\nPaññā tathā vaḍḍhati bhajantānaṁ;\nBhajamāno sappurise,\nSabbehipi dukkhehi pamucceyya.","en":"Associate with true persons,\nfor that is how wisdom grows.\nShould you associate with true persons,\nyou would be freed from all suffering."}},{"id":"thig10.1:3","sourceIds":["thig10.1:3.1","thig10.1:3.2","thig10.1:3.3","thig10.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dukkhañca vijāneyya,\nDukkhassa ca samudayaṁ nirodhaṁ;\nAṭṭhaṅgikañca maggaṁ,\nCattāripi ariyasaccāni”.","en":"And you would understand suffering,\nits origin and cessation,\nthe eightfold path,\nand so the four noble truths.”"}},{"id":"thig10.1:4","sourceIds":["thig10.1:4.1","thig10.1:4.2","thig10.1:4.3","thig10.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dukkho itthibhāvo,\nAkkhāto purisadammasārathinā;\nSapattikampi hi dukkhaṁ,\nAppekaccā sakiṁ vijātāyo.","en":"“‘A woman’s life is painful,’\nexplained the Buddha, guide for those fit to train,\n‘and for a co-wife it’s especially so.\nAfter giving birth just once,"}},{"id":"thig10.1:5","sourceIds":["thig10.1:5.1","thig10.1:5.2","thig10.1:5.3","thig10.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Galake api kantanti,\nSukhumāliniyo visāni khādanti;\nJanamārakamajjhagatā,\nUbhopi byasanāni anubhonti”.","en":"some women even cut their own throat,\nwhile delicate ladies take poison.\nBeing guilty of killing a person,\nthey both undergo ruin.’”"}},{"id":"thig10.1:6","sourceIds":["thig10.1:6.1","thig10.1:6.2","thig10.1:6.3","thig10.1:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Upavijaññā gacchantī,\naddasāhaṁ patiṁ mataṁ;\nPanthamhi vijāyitvāna,\nappattāva sakaṁ gharaṁ.","en":"“I was on the road, near to giving birth,\nwhen I saw my husband dead.\nI gave birth there on the road\nbefore I’d reached my own house."}},{"id":"thig10.1:7","sourceIds":["thig10.1:7.1","thig10.1:7.2","thig10.1:7.3","thig10.1:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dve puttā kālakatā,\nPatī ca panthe mato kapaṇikāya;\nMātā pitā ca bhātā,\nḌayhanti ca ekacitakāyaṁ”.","en":"My two children have died,\nand on the road my husband lies dead—oh woe is me!\nMother, father, and brother\nall burning up on the same pyre.”"}},{"id":"thig10.1:8","sourceIds":["thig10.1:8.1","thig10.1:8.2","thig10.1:8.3","thig10.1:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Khīṇakulīne kapaṇe,\nAnubhūtaṁ te dukhaṁ aparimāṇaṁ;\nAssū ca te pavattaṁ,\nBahūni ca jātisahassāni.","en":"“Oh woe is you whose family is lost,\nthe suffering you have undergone has no measure;\nyou have been shedding tears\nfor many thousands of lives.”"}},{"id":"thig10.1:9","sourceIds":["thig10.1:9.1","thig10.1:9.2","thig10.1:9.3","thig10.1:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vasitā susānamajjhe,\nAthopi khāditāni puttamaṁsāni;\nHatakulikā sabbagarahitā,\nMatapatikā amatamadhigacchiṁ.","en":"“While staying in the charnel ground,\nI saw my son’s flesh being eaten.\nWith my family destroyed, condemned by all,\nand my husband dead, I realized freedom from death."}},{"id":"thig10.1:10","sourceIds":["thig10.1:10.1","thig10.1:10.2","thig10.1:10.3","thig10.1:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhāvito me maggo,\nAriyo aṭṭhaṅgiko amatagāmī;\nNibbānaṁ sacchikataṁ,\nDhammādāsaṁ avekkhiṁhaṁ.","en":"I’ve developed the noble eightfold path\nleading to freedom from death.\nI’ve realized extinguishment,\nas seen in the mirror of the Dhamma."}},{"id":"thig10.1:11","sourceIds":["thig10.1:11.1","thig10.1:11.2","thig10.1:11.3","thig10.1:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ahamamhi kantasallā,\nOhitabhārā katañhi karaṇīyaṁ;\nKisā gotamī therī,\nVimuttacittā imaṁ bhaṇī”ti.","en":"I’ve plucked out the dart,\nlaid down the burden, and done what needed to be done.”\nThe senior nun Kisāgotamī,\nher mind released, said this."}},{"id":"thig10.1:12","sourceIds":["thig10.1:12.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"… Kisā gotamī therī …."}},{"id":"thig10.1:13","sourceIds":["thig10.1:13.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekādasakanipāto niṭṭhito."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thig10.1/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}