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Verses of the Senior Nuns 19 थेरीगाथा 19

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Abhirūpanandātherīgāthā

Pāli in Devanagari; under each word its Roman pronunciation, syllable by syllable (ṃ = nasal hum). Tap a Pāli word for its meaning (PTS Pāli-English Dictionary); tap again to open it in the Pāli dictionary.

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थेरीगाथाthe·rī·gā·thā 2।1

Therīgāthā 2.1

Verses of the Senior Nuns 2.1
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दुकनिपातdu·ka·ni·pā·ta

Dukanipāta

The Book of the Twos
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अभिरूपनन्दाथेरीगाथाa·bhi·rū·pa·nan·dā·the·rī·gā·thā

Abhirūpanandātherīgāthā

Abhirūpanandā
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“आतुरंā·tu·raṃ असुचिंa·su·ciṃ पूतिं,pū·tiṃ

“Āturaṁ asuciṁ pūtiṁ,

Nandā, see this bag of bones as
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पस्सpas·sa नन्देnan·de समुस्सयं;sa·mus·sa·yaṃ

passa nande samussayaṁ;

diseased, filthy, and rotten.
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असुभायa·su·bhā·ya चित्तंcit·taṃ भावेहि,bhā·ve·hi

Asubhāya cittaṁ bhāvehi,

With mind unified and serene,
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एकग्गंe·kag·gaṃ सुसमाहितं।su·sa·mā·hi·taṃ

ekaggaṁ susamāhitaṁ.

meditate on the ugly aspects of the body.
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अनिमित्तञ्चa·ni·mit·tañ·ca भावेहि,bhā·ve·hi

Animittañca bhāvehi,

Meditate on the signless,
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मानानुसयमुज्जह;mā·nā·nu·sa·ya·muj·ja·ha

mānānusayamujjaha;

give up the tendency to conceit;
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ततोta·to मानाभिसमया,mā·nā·bhi·sa·ma·yā

Tato mānābhisamayā,

and when you comprehend conceit,
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उपसन्ताu·pa·san·tā चरिस्ससी”ति।ca·ris·sa·sī

upasantā carissasī”ti.

you will live at peace.
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इत्थंit·thaṃ सुदंsu·daṃ अभिरूपनन्दाa·bhi·rū·pa·nan·dā थेरीthe·rī गाथायोgā·thā·yo अभासित्थाति।a·bhā·sit·thā·ti

Itthaṁ sudaṁ abhirūpanandā therī gāthāyo abhāsitthāti.

That is how the Buddha regularly advised the trainee nun Nandā with these verses.

Sources. Sanskrit: Satyavedaḥ, the New Testament in Sanskrit (Calcutta Baptist Missionaries, 1851; J. Wenger’s revision of W. Carey’s version). Digital text © 2018 SanskritBible.in, via eBible.org, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; changed here: arranged by verse and every word linked to the dictionary (links made automatically). Old Testament Sanskrit: the Old Testament in Sanskrit, Calcutta Baptist Mission Press, 1848–1852 (public domain), read by OCR from the Internet Archive scans of the Boston University School of Theology copy; unproofread, with machine clean-up only. Pāli Canon: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (based on the Vipassana Research Institute’s Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition), from SuttaCentral bilara-data, CC0; Devanagari and pronunciation made automatically from the Roman text. Pāli English: Bhikkhu Sujato (suttas) and Bhikkhu Brahmali (Vinaya), SuttaCentral, CC0. Pāli word meanings: the Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary (Rhys Davids & Stede), corrected reprint © The Pali Text Society, CC BY-NC 3.0, digital text from BuddhaDust; word matching automatic. English: King James Version (1769), public domain; words the translators added are in italics. Word meanings and pronunciations: Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1872), via this site’s Sanskrit dictionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); English↔Sanskrit word matches made automatically and may need checking.