Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.9

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.9
2. The Book of the Fives
3. Bhaddā of the Curly Hair
4. My hair mown off, covered in mud,
5. I used to wander wearing just one robe.
6. I saw fault where there was none,
7. and was blind to the actual fault.
8. Leaving my day’s meditation
9. on Vulture’s Peak Mountain,
10. I saw the stainless Buddha
11. at the fore of the mendicant Saṅgha.
12. I bent my knee and bowed,
13. and in his presence raised my joined palms.
14. “Come Bhaddā,” he said;
15. that was my ordination.
16. “I’ve wandered among the Aṅgans and Magadhans,
17. the Vajjis, Kāsis, and Kosalans.
18. I have eaten the almsfood of the nations
19. free of debt for fifty years.”
20. “O! He has made so much merit!
21. That lay follower is so very wise.
22. He gave a robe to Bhaddā,
23. who is released from all ties.”