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SN 5.8

With Sīsupacālā · Sīsupacālāsutta

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At Sāvatthī. Then the nun Sīsupacālā robed up in the morning … and sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation. Then Māra the Wicked went up to Sīsupacālā and said to her, “Nun, whose creed do you approve of?” “I don’t approve anyone’s creed, sir.”

Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Atha kho sīsupacālā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe… aññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi. Atha kho māro pāpimā yena sīsupacālā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā sīsupacālaṁ bhikkhuniṁ etadavoca: “kassa nu tvaṁ, bhikkhuni, pāsaṇḍaṁ rocesī”ti? “Na khvāhaṁ, āvuso, kassaci pāsaṇḍaṁ rocemī”ti.

“In whose name did you shave your head? You look like an ascetic, but you don’t approve any creed. Why do you wander as if lost?”

“Kaṁ nu uddissa muṇḍāsi, Samaṇī viya dissasi; Na ca rocesi pāsaṇḍaṁ, Kimiva carasi momūhā”ti.

“Followers of other creeds are confident in their views. But I don’t approve their teaching, for they’re no experts in the Dhamma.

“Ito bahiddhā pāsaṇḍā, diṭṭhīsu pasīdanti te; Na tesaṁ dhammaṁ rocemi, te dhammassa akovidā.

But there is one born in the Sakyan clan, the unrivaled Buddha, vanquisher of all, dispeller of Māra, everywhere undefeated,

Atthi sakyakule jāto, buddho appaṭipuggalo; Sabbābhibhū māranudo, sabbatthamaparājito.

everywhere freed, and unattached, the Clear-eyed One sees all. He has attained the end of all deeds, freed with the ending of attachments. That Blessed One is my Teacher, and I approve his instruction.”

Sabbattha mutto asito, sabbaṁ passati cakkhumā; Sabbakammakkhayaṁ patto, vimutto upadhisaṅkhaye; So mayhaṁ bhagavā satthā, tassa rocemi sāsanan”ti.

Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Sīsupacālā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.

Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ sīsupacālā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.