Ramaṇīyakuṭika — The Book of the Ones · Chapter Six · Poem 8 of 10
Setting
A hut received as a gift given in faith
Speaker
Ramaṇīyakuṭika, describing his hut and declining a visit
Form
One four-line verse
Length
under 1 minute to read
Northern parallel
This reading guide does not assert a specific matching text for this poem in other Buddhist literatures.
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — plain in its content, addressing a specific situation
Why this text
Ramaṇīyakuṭika's name means ‘pleasant little hut’ — drawn directly from his own verse's opening line, ‘my hut is pleasing, delightful’. The verse's second half turns to a specific situation: women have apparently come to see him, and he declines, sending them ‘to those in need’.
Reading guide
A name that is also the verse's first line
Where Kuṭivihārin's name was a general epithet (‘hut-dweller’), Ramaṇīyakuṭika's name reproduces almost exactly the opening words of his own verse — ‘Ramaṇīyā me kuṭikā’, ‘my hut is pleasing’ — the most literal case in this chapter of a monk's name drawn from his own poem's content.
A gift given in faith
The verse specifies that this pleasant hut was ‘saddhādeyyā’, given as an offering by a lay supporter's faith, tying the hut's pleasantness directly to the generosity that produced it, rather than to any effort of his own.
A boundary stated plainly, without elaboration
The verse's second half states, without narrative detail or explanation, that he has no need of the women who have come and sends them elsewhere. This reading guide reports what the verse says on its own terms — a monk declining a visit — without speculating about who these women were or why they came, since the text gives no further information.
Key terms
ramaṇīyā — “pleasing” or “delightful” — the word opening this verse and forming half of Ramaṇīyakuṭika's own name.
saddhādeyyā — “a gift given in faith” — describing how this hut came to be his.
kumārī — “girls” or “young women” — those the verse says he has no need of.
nāriyo — “women” or “ladies” — the word used in the verse's closing line, sending them elsewhere.
kuṭika — “little hut” — the same recurring word anchoring this whole chapter, here embedded in the speaker's own name.
The text
The text in full: one verse, with no separate attribution line in this chapter. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1My hut is pleasing, delightful, a gift given in faith. I’ve no need of girls: go, ladies, to those in need!
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Self-check quiz
Ten questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 10
What does the name Ramaṇīyakuṭika mean?
Correct: A. The most literal case in this chapter of a name drawn from its own poem's content.
Question 2 of 10
How did Ramaṇīyakuṭika's hut come to be his, according to the verse?
Correct: D. Saddhādeyyā — tying the hut's pleasantness to the generosity behind it.
Question 3 of 10
What does the verse's second half address?
Correct: C. A boundary stated plainly, without further narrative detail.
Question 4 of 10
According to this reading guide, does the verse explain who the women are or why they came?
Correct: B. Reporting what the verse states, without adding unstated detail.
Question 5 of 10
What does 'saddhādeyyā' mean?
Correct: A. Describing how Ramaṇīyakuṭika's hut came to be his.
Question 6 of 10
What word opens this verse, also forming half of the speaker's own name?
Correct: D. The literal source of Ramaṇīyakuṭika's name.
Question 7 of 10
How does Ramaṇīyakuṭika's naming compare to Kuṭivihārin's, from the two poems before this one?
Correct: B. A more literal case of self-naming from the poem's own content.
Question 8 of 10
Where does this poem fall in Chapter Six?
Correct: C. Poem 8 of 10.
Question 9 of 10
What does 'nāriyo' mean?
Correct: A. The word closing the verse, sending the visitors elsewhere.
Question 10 of 10
What shared word connects this verse to the rest of Chapter Six?
Correct: B. Kuṭika, embedded directly in the speaker's own name.
