{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.3","id":"suttacentral_sn5.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Kis\u0101gotam\u012b robed up in the morning and, taking her bowl and robe, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. She wandered for alms in S\u0101vatth\u012b. After the meal, on her return from almsround, she went to the Dark Forest for the day\u2019s meditation, plunged deep into it, and sat at the root of a tree to meditate. Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Kis\u0101gotam\u012b feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cWhy do you sit alone and cry as if your children have died? You\u2019ve come to the woods all alone\u2014 are you looking for a man?\u201d Then the nun Kis\u0101gotam\u012b thought, \u201cWho\u2019s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?\u201d Then she thought, \u201cThis is M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from immersion!\u201d Then Kis\u0101gotam\u012b, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cI\u2019ve got over the death of children, and I\u2019m finished with men. I don\u2019t grieve or lament, and I\u2019m not afraid of you, sir! Relishing is banished in every respect, and the mass of darkness is shattered. I\u2019ve defeated the army of death, and live without defilements.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Kis\u0101gotam\u012b knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With Kis\u0101gotam\u012b","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":233}