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Sona: With Many Children

Sona

Summary: url=index.html#thig.05.08.hekh Sona conquers aging: “I spit on old age!&quot.

Thig 5.8 PTS: Thig 102-106

translated from the Pali by

Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema

1998-2018

Alternate translation: Thanissaro

- Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa -

Ten children having borne from this bodily congeries, so I, now weak and old, approached a Bhikkhuni. The Dhamma she taught me — groups, sense-spheres and elements, I heard the Dhamma, and having shaved my hair, went forth. While still a probationer I purified the eye divine; Former lives I knew, and where I lived before. One-pointed, well-composed, the Signless I developed, immediately released, unclinging now and quenched! Knowing the five groups well, they still exist; but with their roots removed. Unmovable am I, on a stable basis sure, now rebirth is no more.

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From Buddhist Women at the Time of The Buddha (WH 292/293), by Hellmuth Hecker, translated from the German by Sister Khema (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1982). Copyright © 1982 Buddhist Publication Society. Used with permission.

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