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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;
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'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-Chandana abode, wasting herself in starvation [etc.]. That Nun Kāli learnt before Nun Ajja-Chandana 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 First Lesson
The conclusion.
ends. [Sutra. 17]
In that age, at that time, there was a city of Campa...the sanctuary Punnabhadda; the King was Koniya. There was a queen named Sukāli, 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 5
