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Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.9
Linked Discourses 5.9
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1. Bhikkhunīvagga
1. Nuns
1.1
Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
At Sāvatthī.
1.2
Atha kho selā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…
Then the nun Selā robed up in the morning …
1.3
aññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.
and sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.
1.4
Atha kho māro pāpimā selāya bhikkhuniyā bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo …pe…
Then Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Selā feel fear, terror, and goosebumps …
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selaṁ bhikkhuniṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:
addressed her in verse:
2.1
“Kenidaṁ pakataṁ bimbaṁ,
“Who created this puppet?
2.2
kvanu bimbassa kārako;
Where is its maker?
2.3
Kvanu bimbaṁ samuppannaṁ,
Where has the puppet arisen?
2.4
kvanu bimbaṁ nirujjhatī”ti.
And where does it cease?”
3.1
Atha kho selāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:
Then the nun Selā thought,
3.2
“ko nu khvāyaṁ manusso vā amanusso vā gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti?
“Who’s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?”
3.3
Atha kho selāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:
Then she thought,
3.4
“māro kho ayaṁ pāpimā mama bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo samādhimhā cāvetukāmo gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti.
“This is Māra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from immersion!”
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Atha kho selā bhikkhunī “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi paccabhāsi:
Then Selā, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:
4.1
“Nayidaṁ attakataṁ bimbaṁ,
“This puppet isn’t self-made,
4.2
nayidaṁ parakataṁ aghaṁ;
nor is this gloom made by another.
4.3
Hetuṁ paṭicca sambhūtaṁ,
It comes to be because of a cause,
4.4
hetubhaṅgā nirujjhati.
and ceases when the cause breaks up.
5.1
Yathā aññataraṁ bījaṁ,
It’s like a seed that’s sown
5.2
khette vuttaṁ virūhati;
in a field; it grows
5.3
Pathavīrasañcāgamma,
relying on both the soil’s nutrients
5.4
sinehañca tadūbhayaṁ.
as well as moisture.
6.1
Evaṁ khandhā ca dhātuyo,
In the same way the aggregates and elements
6.2
cha ca āyatanā ime;
and these six sense fields
6.3
Hetuṁ paṭicca sambhūtā,
come to be because of a cause,
6.4
hetubhaṅgā nirujjhare”ti.
and cease when the cause breaks up.”
7.1
Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ selā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.
Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Selā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.
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