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§ § 111-112.] Nirayávaliyảo.
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111. Then at a certain time, when that hous'ewife Subhaddă was keeping awake at mid-night for family affairs, a thought of the following description occurred to her: “ Truly, I enjoy great sexnal pleasures with the householder Bhadda, but I am not able to give birth to a boy or a girl. Therfore, blessed, indeed, are those mothers ( and so forth, down to) and they have, methinks, wellachieved the fruit of their births and lives, whogo breasts flow with milk on account of the presence of their children born of their wombs, greedy of the milk of their breasts, talking sweetly, muttering indistinctly, nestling to the bases of their breasts and arm.pits, and who (i. e. the mothers) also having taken with their tender lotus-like hands put them into their laps--them who often and often produce sweet indistinct sounds. I am, in: deed, unblessed, unmeritorious as I have not got even one of these"; she thought so, and having done so she, with all her longings shattered ( and so forth, down to ), began to brood over.
112. At that time and at that period, a band of certain Jain nuns known as Suvvayā, ( having excellent vows ) who
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