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105 she will go seven or eight steps forward, and will salute and bow down to them and will make them accept abundant food (4) and will speak thus: "Truly, 0 Venerable nuns, I enjoy great sexual pleasures with Ratthakûda (and 80 forth, down to) and every year give birth to twins, and at the end of sixteen years I have given birth to thirty two children in all. Now with some of those many children lying on my back (and so forth $ 131, down to ) some sleeping and some of wicked births, I am not able to enjoy great sexual pleasures. Therefore, O Venerable Ones, I desire to hear some religious instrucion from you.” Then those nuns will expound to the female Brahmin Somå the varied (and so forth, down to ) the religion propounded by the omniscient sages.
183. Then that female Brahmin Somã, having heard the religious instruction from those nuns and becoming greatly delighted in her heart, will salute and bow down to those nuns and will speak thus: “I believe, O nuns, in the Doctrine of the Nigganthas: it is exactly so as you have expounded it. Only I shall now ask the permission of Ratthakada and then, o nuns, I shall get myself baldshaved in the presence of you, the beloved
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