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The Eleventh Nipāta The Verses of the Elder Kisāgotamī 213. Good friendship by the sage, pointing to the world, was praised; Associating with good friends, even a fool might become wise. 214. Good people should be associated with, wisdom thus grows for those who associate; Associating with good people, one might be freed from all sufferings. 215. One should know suffering, and the origin and cessation of suffering; And the eightfold path, and all four noble truths. 216. Painful is the state of womanhood, declared by the trainer of men to be tamed; Even co-wifehood is suffering, and for some, giving birth once. 217. They even cut their throats, delicate women eat poisons; Caught amidst child-killers, both experience calamities. 218. Going to give birth, I saw my husband dead; Having given birth on the path, not yet having reached my own home. 219. Two sons died, and the husband died on the path for the wretched one; Mother, father, and brother, burn on a single pyre. 220. For the one whose family is destroyed, the wretched one, immeasurable suffering has been experienced; And your tears have flowed, for many thousands of births. 221. I have dwelt in the charnel ground, and even eaten the flesh of my sons; My family destroyed, despised by all, a widow, I attained the deathless. 222. The path has been developed by me, the noble eightfold, leading to the deathless; Nibbāna has been realized, I have looked into the mirror of Dhamma. 223. I am one whose dart is removed, whose burden is laid down, what was to be done has been done; The Elder Kisāgotamī, with a mind liberated, spoke this. ...The Elder Kisāgotamī.... The Eleventh Nipāta is finished.