In this present lucky aeon,
Brahma’s Kinsman, Greatly Famed One,
the Buddha known as Kassapa
was born, the Best of Debaters.I’m born in a lay Buddhist clan,
in Śrāvasti, superb city.
Having seen that superb Victor,
and having heard him preach Dhamma,gone to that Hero for refuge,
I undertook morality.
Whenever that Great Hero, in
the midst of the great populace,the Bull of Men was explaining
his own supreme Awakening,
things which formerly were unheard,
starting with “life is suffering,”hearing that, and taking it up,
insight, thinking, wisdom, science,
and intuition rose in me,
and I asked the monks about them.In Kassapa’s dispensation,
I practiced celibate nunhood.
Due to that karma, I was born
in the city of the thirty.And now, in my final rebirth,
born in a large millionaire’s clan
having approached and having heard
the Buddha’s great truth-filled Teaching,having gone forth, in no long time,
I understood truth’s foundations;
casting away all defilements,
I achieved my arahantship.I’ve mastered the superpowers
like the “divine ear” element.
I’m also a master, Great Sage,
of the knowledge in others’ hearts.I remember my former lives;
my “divine eye” is purified.
All the defilements are destroyed;
I will not be reborn again.In meaning and in the Teaching,
etymology and preaching,
this knowledge of mine was produced
in your presence, O Great Hero.My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.Being in Best Buddha's presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed the bhikkhunī Selā spoke these verses.
The legend of Selā Therī is finished
The Summary:
The kṣatriyans and the brahmins,
likewise Uppaladāyikā,
Sigālamātā and Sukkā,
Abhirūpā, Aḍḍhakāsikā,
the prostitute, so too Puṇṇā,
and Ambapālī, Buddhist nun,
and Selā then makes the tenth one.
There are two hundred verses here,
plus another forty-two more.
The Kṣatriyan Chapter, the Fourth.
And then there is the Summary of Chapters:
Sumedhā, Ekuposathā,
Kuṇḍalakesī Khattiyā
one thousand three hundred verses
mixed in with forty-seven more.
Along with Uddāna verses
which are counted by those who know,
there are one thousand three hundred
verses plus fifty seven more.
The Therī-apadāna is Finished
The Apadāna is Finished