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Перевод: Бхиккху Суджато

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Stories of Past Lives 61 · The Book of the Ones

The women in the world called unclaimed— ^[1]

there is no confining them.

They are rude and full of desires,

like an all-consuming flame.

Leaving them behind, I shall go forth

and foster seclusion.

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[1] A young student is told by his mother that his education is incomplete until he learns the mysterious “spell of the unpleasant”. His teacher knows that there is no such spell, but realizes that the mother wants her son to learn of the wickedness of women.

Read asā from a + sva, “without an owner”, and hence “unclaimed” or “without a husband”. The commentary explains, rather, as asatiyo (“false”) and also asāta (“displeasing”). Perhaps the curious “spell of the unpleasant” was retroactively invented to explain this word.