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she approached Nun Ajja-Chandanā, praised and worshipped her and abode exercising herself...with many fasts until the fourth meal [etc). Then that Nun Mahasenakanhà was resplendent with that noble (mortification). [etc.] Now at the hour of midnight there arose a thought to Nun Mahäsenkanha, just like that to Khanda-a [until] she asked Ajja-Chandaņā (until] abode without being tager for death by wasting hersalf away in starvation. Then that Nun Mahasenakanhà studied before Nun Ajja-Chandaņā Eleven Scriptures, Laws of Peace etc, observed a period of full seventeen years, wasted herself with a month's starvation, cut off sixty meals by not eating, accomplished the end for which she stripped herself [etc.], and was beatified, awakened [ etc. ] with her last breaths.
Eight years to begin with and the increment thereto by one year until seventeen; these indeed should be known as the periods of the wives of Senia.
Thus indeed. Jumbū, by the Ascetic [until] attained, the matter of the Eighth Scripture, the Fortunes of the End-winners is preached ”
