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123 after the sprinkling of water. Therefore, O you beloved of the gods, make confession for this sin.” ( The rest is to be described here exactly as in the case of Subhaddă, down to ) she passed her time in an idependent Upåshraya. Then that nun Bhûya, becoming self-willed, and being not reprimanded and becoming wanton, used to wash every now and then her hands ( and so forth, down to) spread her seat.
162. Then that nun Bhûya, having observed nunhood for many a year observing two days' fasts, three days' fasts and so on; and without making confession or expiation for that sin and having met with death at the time of surcease, was born as the goddess Siri in the Sohamma heaven, in the Vimãņa Sirivadinsaa, in the assembly Uvayłya, in a divine bed (and so forth, down to ) with the dimensions of a goddess, being endowed with five kinds of fulness of faculties.+ Truly, in this way, O Goyama, the goddess Siri has acquired this divine prosperity. The duration of her life there is expounded to be as one Paliovama. Then Goyama asked: “ Venerable Sir, where will the goddess Siri go after the
+See § 85.
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