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Poțţilā ... upto ... and stay in the house distributing it (to the mendicants etc.)." Then that girl Sukumārikā agreed to do that, and (preparing) plenty of food etc.,...upto...stayed there giving it away (in charities). In those days, at that time, the nuns named Gopalikas, well-read...thus, like the Suvratas in the Toyali chapter...upto... arrived there,...In the same way they also formed pairs,...upto...entered (the house of Sukumārikā),... upto...she gave them (food etc.). and then said to them:- "Thus verily, 0 Nuns! I am disagreeable...upto...disliked by Sāgara. He does not even like to utter my name...upto... (does not want) any enjoyments with me. And I am undesirable and disagreeable to every one whomsoever I am being giver. You are, O Venerable Nuns! so very well-read... thus as Pottilā said...upto...have you found any (charm, or magic) by which I shall be agreable and desirable...to Sāgaraka''? The nuns replied in the same way (as in the other chapter), and she also likewise became a lay disciple; then she thought in the same way, asked Sāgaradatta's perinission,...upto...was initiated into the order of nuns by the Gopālikas. Then that Sukumārikā became a nun careful in walking...upto...guarded in celibacy, and lived observing many fasts of two, three and four days etc.. Once that nun Sukumārikā went to the nuns Gopālikas and having bowed down and saluted them, said: 0 Venerable Nuns! I wish, if you permit me, to undertake (or observe) a fast of two days, without a break, and standing facing the sun, and thus scorch myself, outside the city of Campā, near the garden Subhūmibhāga”. Then those Gopālikā nuns said to that Sukumārikā as follows:--[P.25] We are, O Venerable Nun, Nirgrantha nuns, observing carefulness in walking ... upto... guarded in continence. It does not behove us to stay outside a village...upto...a settlement, observing the Şaştha fasts. It is but proper for us to remain inside a monastery, and in an enclosure, with a garment tied round our: body, to torture ourselves with our feet resting evenly on the ground.” But then that Sukumārikā did not believe the words of those Gopālikās, bad no faith in them, and did not
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