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a nun in the presence of those Suvvaya nuns and thus to get myself initiated a houseless nun ceasing to be a house'wife possessed of a house." She thought 80, and having done so she went to the householder Bhadda and spoke to him thus with folded hands: " Truly, O you beloved of the gods, I enjoyed with you great sexual pleasures for many a year, but I have not been able to give birth either to a son or a daughter. Therefore, O you beloved of the gods, being permitted by you, I wish to get myself initiated in the presence of those Suvvayã nuns.
117. Then that householder Bhadda spoke thus to his wife Subhadda: “Do not, O you boloved of the gods, get yourself bald-shaved and become initiated, but continue even now to enjoy great sexual pleasures with me and then having fully enjoyed sexual pleasures, may you get yourself initiated in the pregence of those Suvvayã nuns. Then the house' wife Subhaddă did not pay heed or listen to those words of the house-holder Bhada, but she spoke to him thus twice or thrice: “I wish, O you beloved of the gods, to get myself initiated being permitted by you. Then that householder Bhadda, when he was not able to tell or to request her anything more,
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