I was the daughter Sumedhā, gladdened by those who practise the teaching.

Having approached her mother and father, she speaks: "Both of you, listen.

How much less then hollow sensual pleasures, of little enjoyment and much vexation.

They, consigned to hell for a long time, are afflicted and destroyed.

Unrestrained by body and by speech, and by mind, the foolish.

Not knowing when it is being taught, they do not understand the noble truths.

They delight in existence, they long for rebirth among the gods.

Yet fools do not tremble, at being born again and again.

And for those gone to the nether worlds, there is no going forth in the hells.

Living at ease, I shall strive for the abandoning of birth and death.

For the cessation of craving for existence, allow me, I shall go forth.

The moral precepts, the holy life, for as long as life lasts I would not corrupt."

As a householder, I shall be one gone under the power of death."

They strive to convince her, fallen on the ground on the upper floor of the mansion.

King Anīkaratta is handsome, to him you have been given.

The moral precepts, the holy life, going forth is difficult to do, dear son.

Enjoy sensual pleasures, let there be a proposal of marriage for you, child."

Either there will be going forth, or death for me - I will certainly not accept a proposal of marriage."

A bellows, more than once trickling, full of impurity?

A dwelling for a multitude of worms, food for birds - why is this corpse given?

Discarded like a log, by relatives who are disgusted.

Even one's own mother and father, how much more then the common populace.

Full of spittle, excrement, and urine, in the putrid body.

Not enduring the odour, even one's own mother would be disgusted.

Wisely investigating, why should I wish for a proposal of marriage?

Even a hundred years of slaughter would be better, if thus there were elimination of suffering.

'Long is the wandering in the round of rebirths for those being slain again and again.'

Among ghosts and in the hells, countless destructions are seen.

Even among the gods there is no protection, there is nothing beyond the happiness of Nibbāna.

Living at ease, they strive for the abandoning of birth and death.

Sensual pleasures are wearisome to me, like vomit, made like the site of a palm tree."

He approached Vāraṇavatī, when the time for the marriage proposal had arrived.

Having closed the mansion, she attained the first meditative absorption.

And in the mansion Sumedhā well develops the perception of impermanence.

With limbs adorned with jewels and gold, with joined palms he requests Sumedhā.

Enjoy sensual pleasures, sensual happiness is rare in the world.

Do not be unhappy, your mother and father are distressed."

"Do not delight in sensual pleasures, see the danger in sensual pleasures.

Unsatisfied he died, and his desire was not fulfilled.

There is no satisfaction in sensual pleasures, men die unsatisfied.

Like a torch they burn, resembling a skeleton.

Like a heated iron ball, they are the root of misery, with suffering as their fruit.

Like a dream, deceptive, sensual pleasures are like borrowed goods.

Like a pit of embers, root of misery, fear, murder.

Go, I have no trust in existence for myself.

When ageing and death are pursuing, one must strive for its destruction."

Seated on the ground, weeping, I said this.

Without discernible beginning, at the death of a father, at the murder of a brother, and at the murder of oneself.

Of beings transmigrating, remember also the accumulation of bones.

Remember the accumulation of bones of one cosmic cycle, equal to Vipula.

As pills the size of jujube seeds, mothers of mothers alone would not suffice.

As four-finger-length pieces, fathers of fathers alone would not suffice.

And its head inserted into it - this is the simile for obtaining human birth.

See the aggregates as impermanent, remember the hells with much vexation.

Remember the crocodile dangers, remember the four truths.

For all sensual delights are more bitter than the five-fold bitter.

For all sensual delights are blazing, boiling, agitating, and tormenting.

Sensual pleasures are common to kings, fire, thieves, water, and unloved heirs, having many enemies.

For in sensual pleasures, those attached to unwholesome pleasures experience the sufferings of murder and bondage.

For sensual pleasures are like a torch, they burn those who do not release them.

Do not, like a fish swallowing a hook, afterwards suffer vexation.

Sensual pleasures will do to you what hungry outcasts do to a dog.

You will experience, being attached to sensual pleasures; give up the unstable sensual pleasures.

Seized by death and illness, are all births everywhere.

Without enmity, without confinement, without stumbling, without fear, without distress.

By one who wisely applies oneself, but it is not possible for one not striving."

Persuading Anikaratta, Sumedhā threw her hair on the ground.

"Give up Sumedhā, to go forth, may she see the truth of deliverance."

The six direct knowledges were realised, the highest fruition for her as a female trainee.

Her past life conduct, as she declared at the final time.

We three friends, women, gave the gift of a dwelling."

We were reborn among the gods, what then to say of among human beings.

I was the chief queen of one with the seven treasures, I was the woman treasure.

That is the first combination, that is Nibbāna for one delighted in the Teaching."

They become disenchanted with existence, and having become disenchanted, they become dispassionate.