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TherÄ«gÄthÄ 1.11 Verses of the Elder BhikkhunÄ«s Verses of the Senior Nuns 1.11
EkakanipÄta Chapter of the Ones The Book of the Ones
MuttÄtherÄ«gÄthÄ Verses of the Elder MuttÄ MuttÄ (2nd)
āSumuttÄ sÄdhumuttÄmhi, āI am well released and fully free, Iām well freed, so very well freed, Compare with Thig 2.3 and Thag 1.43.
tÄ«hi khujjehi muttiyÄ; free from the three deceitsāfreed from the three things that humped me: The commentary explains that the first two things make you crooked: (khujjakaraį¹ahetutÄya tadubhayaį¹ ākhujjaānti vuttaį¹), while the husband is crooked (a hunchback). This may be so, but I think it is a double entendre.
Udukkhalena musalena, the mortar, the pestle, the mortar, the pestle, The mortar and pestle feature prominently in the sexual imagery of Rig Veda 1.29, where the kitchen implements are analogized with the pressing of soma on the altar. Both musala and āpestleā derive from roots āto poundā.
patinÄ khujjakena ca; and the deceitful husband. and my humpbacked husband.
MuttÄmhi jÄtimaraį¹Ä, I am free from birth and death; Iām freed from birth and death;
bhavanetti samÅ«hatÄāti. I have uprooted that which leads to any state of existence.ā the leash to existence is eradicated.
ā¦ MuttÄ therÄ« ā¦. The Elder MuttÄ