Verses of the Senior Nuns 3.4

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 3.4
2. The Book of the Threes
3. Dantikā
4. Leaving my day’s meditation
5. on Vulture’s Peak Mountain,
6. I saw an elephant on the riverbank
7. having just come up from his bath.
8. A man, taking a pole with a hook,
9. asked the elephant, “Give me your foot.”
10. The elephant presented his foot,
11. and the man mounted him.
12. Seeing a wild beast so tamed,
13. submitting to human control,
14. my mind became serene:
15. <em>that</em> is why I’ve gone to the forest!