Therīgāthā 11

Verses of the Senior Nuns 1.11

The Book of the Ones

Muttā (2nd)

1 I’m well freed, so very well freed,

freed from the three things that humped me:

the mortar, the pestle,

and my humpbacked husband.

I’m freed from birth and death;

the leash to existence is eradicated.