{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig13.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig13.4","id":"suttacentral_thig13.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig13.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cBefore, worthy lady, when feeding your departed children, you\u2019d be racked with despair all day and all night. Today, brahmin lady, you have fed all seven children. V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dh\u012b, how do you explain why you\u2019re not so filled with despair?\u201d \u201cMany hundreds of children, hundreds of family circles, both mine and yours, brahmin, have been fed in the past. Having known the escape from rebirth and death I neither grieve nor lament, nor do I despair.\u201d \u201cWow, Vase\u1e6d\u1e6dh\u012b, the words you speak really are amazing! Whose teaching did you understand that you say these things?\u201d \u201cBrahmin, the Awakened One back at the city of Mithil\u0101, teaches the Dhamma so that living creatures may abandon all suffering. After hearing the perfected one\u2019s teaching, brahmin, which is free of all attachments, having understood the true teaching there, I\u2019ve cast aside grief for children.\u201d \u201cI too shall go to the city of Mithil\u0101. Hopefully the Buddha may release me from all suffering.\u201d The brahmin saw the Buddha, liberated, free of attachments. He taught him the Dhamma, the sage gone beyond suffering: suffering, suffering\u2019s origin, suffering\u2019s transcendence, and the noble eightfold path that leads to the stilling of suffering. Having understood the true teaching there, he chose to go forth. Three days later Suj\u0101ta realized the three knowledges. \u201cPlease, charioteer, go; take back this carriage. Bidding my brahmin lady good health, say: \u2018The brahmin has now gone forth. After three days, Suj\u0101ta realized the three knowledges.\u2019\u201d Then taking the carriage, along with a thousand coins, the charioteer bade the brahmin lady good health, and said: \u201cThe brahmin has now gone forth. After three days, Suj\u0101ta realized the three knowledges.\u201d Hearing that the brahmin had the three knowledges, <j>the lady replied: \u201cI present to you this horse and carriage, O charioteer, along with 1000 coins, and a full bowl as a gift.\u201d \u201cKeep the horse and carriage, lady, along with the thousand coins. I too shall go forth in his presence, the one of such outstanding wisdom.\u201d \u201cElephants, cattle, jeweled earrings, such opulent domestic worth: having given it up, your father went forth, enjoy these riches Sundar\u012b, you are the family heir.\u201d \u201cElephants, cattle, jeweled earrings, such delightful domestic worth: having given it up, my father went forth, racked by grief for his son. I too shall go forth, racked by grief for my brother.\u201d \u201cSundar\u012b, may the wish you desire come true. Leftovers as gleanings, and cast-off rags as robes\u2014 make do with these, free of defilements regarding the next life.\u201d \u201cMa\u2019am, while I am still a trainee nun, my clairvoyance is clarified; I know my past lives, the places I used to live. Relying on a fine lady like you, a senior nun who graces the Sa\u1e45gha, I\u2019ve attained the three knowledges, and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. Give me permission ma\u2019am, I wish to go to S\u0101vatth\u012b, where I shall roar my lion\u2019s roar before the best of Buddhas.\u201d \u201cSundar\u012b, see the Teacher! Snow gold in tint, <j>with sun-golden skin; tamer of the untamed, the Awakened One who fears nothing <j>from any quarter.\u201d \u201cSee Sundar\u012b coming, liberated, free of attachments. desireless, detached, her task completed, without defilements.\u201d \u201cHaving set forth from Varanasi and come to your presence, great hero, your disciple Sundar\u012b bows at your feet. You are the Buddha, you are the Teacher, I am your bosom daughter, brahmin, born of your mouth. I\u2019ve completed the task <j>and am free of defilements.\u201d \u201cThen welcome, good lady, you\u2019re by no means unwelcome. For this is how the tamed come bowing at the Teacher\u2019s feet; desireless, detached, the task completed, without defilements.\u201d","title":"Sundar\u012b","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":597}