With Pajjunna’s Daughter (1st) (SN1.39)

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4. The Host of a Hundred Felicities

With Pajjunna’s Daughter (1st)

So I have heard.

At one time the Buddha was staying near Vesālī, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof.

Then, late at night, the glorious Kokanadā, Pajjunna’s daughter, lighting up the entire Great Wood, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side,¹

and recited these verses in the Buddha’s presence:

“Staying in the woods of Vesālī

is the Buddha, best of creation.²

Kokanadā am I who worships him,

Kokanadā, Pajjuna’s daughter.

Previously I had only heard

the teaching realized by the Clear-eyed One.

But now I know it as a witness

while the sage, the Holy One teaches.

There are simpletons who go about

denouncing the teaching of the noble ones.

They fall into the terrible Hell of Screams³

where they suffer long.⁴

There are those who have found acceptance and peace

in the teaching of the noble ones.

After giving up this human body,

they swell the heavenly host.”