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wasting myself with starvation...not being eager for death..." With this idea, she pondered, went to Nun Ajja-Chandana, praised and worshipped her and said;
"I desire, lady, on being permitted by you to abide...wasting myself in starvation (etc.). If it please you, [etc.].”
Nun Kāli, on being permitted by Nun Ajja-Chandaņā abode, wasting herself in starvation [etc.]. That Nun Käli learnt before Nun Ajja-Chandanā Eleven Scriptures, Laws of Peace etc, completed the period of nunship of eight complete years, wasted herself by a month's starvation, cut off sixty meals by not eating, ( fulfilled ) the end for which she stripped herself etc...] was beatified [5] with her last breaths.
The conclusion. The First Lesson ends. [Sūtra. 17]
In that age, at that time, there was a city of Campā...the sanctuary Punnabhadda; the King was Koniya. There was a queen named Sukālī, the wife of King Seniya and and the step-mother of King Koniya. Just like Kali, Sukalī also withdrew (until] abode exercising herself with many fasts until the
