Reading guide
An heiress, sought and quantified
‘Born into an eminent family, affluent and wealthy... sought by princes, coveted by sons of the wealthy’ establishes her status before any suitor speaks — setting up the specific proposal that follows.
A proposal, quoted in the suitor's own words
‘Give me Anopamā! However much your daughter Anopamā weighs, I'll give you eight times that in gold coin and gems’ is presented as direct quotation, not summary — her worth stated in a specific multiple of her own body weight in gold.
A named attainment, reached while still seated
‘While sitting in that seat, I realized the third fruit’ names a specific stage of the path, reached in the same sitting as her audience with the Buddha — before she has shaved her head or gone forth at all.
A count of days, closing the poem
‘This is the seventh day since my craving dried up’ closes the poem with the same precise-day formula used in Thig 2.9, 2.10, and 3.1 — a dated breakthrough, arriving only after she has finally gone forth.
Key terms
The text
§1I was born into an eminent family, affluent and wealthy, endowed with a beautiful complexion and figure; Majjha’s true-born daughter.
§2I was sought by princes, coveted by sons of the wealthy. One sent a messenger to my father: “Give me Anopamā!
§3However much your daughter Anopamā weighs, I’ll give you eight times that in gold coin and gems.”
§4When I saw the Awakened One, the world’s Elder, unsurpassed, I paid homage at his feet, and withdrew to one side.
§5Out of compassion, Gotama taught me the Dhamma. While sitting in that seat, I realized the third fruit.
§6Then, having shaved off my hair, I went forth to homelessness. This is the seventh day since my craving dried up.
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