{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.5","id":"suttacentral_sn5.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101 robed up in the morning \u2026 and stood at the root of a sal tree in full flower. Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cYou\u2019ve come to this sal tree all crowned with flowers, and stand at its root all alone, O nun. Your beauty is second to none\u2014 silly girl, aren\u2019t you afraid of rascals?\u201d Then the nun Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101 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 Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cEven if 100,000 rascals like you were to come here, I\u2019d stir not a hair nor panic. I\u2019m not scared of you, M\u0101ra, even alone. I\u2019ll vanish, or I\u2019ll enter your belly; I could stand between your eyebrows and you still wouldn\u2019t see me. I\u2019m the master of my own mind, I\u2019ve developed the bases of psychic power well. I\u2019m free from all bonds, and I\u2019m not afraid of you, sir!\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With Uppalava\u1e47\u1e47\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":228}