{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig5.12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig5.12","id":"suttacentral_thig5.12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig5.12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"I used to be in a sorry state. As a childless widow, bereft of friends or relatives, I got neither food nor clothes. I took a bowl and a staff and went begging from family to family. For seven years I wandered, burned by heat and cold. Then I saw a nun receiving food and drink. Approaching her, I said: \u201cSend me forth to homelessness.\u201d Out of sympathy for me, Pa\u1e6d\u0101c\u0101r\u0101 gave me the going forth. Then, having advised me, she urged me on to the ultimate goal. After hearing her words, I did her bidding. The lady\u2019s advice was not in vain: master of the three knowledges, <j>I am free of defilements.","title":"Cand\u0101","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":113}