[521] Then the daughters of Māra — Taṇhā (Craving), Aratī (Discontent), and Ragā (Lust) — approached Māra the Evil One (Māra pāpimā).
Māra the Evil One saw the daughters of Māra — Taṇhā, Aratī, and Ragā — coming from afar. Having seen them, he addressed them in verses:
"Fools! You would crush a mountain
with the stalks of water-lilies,
dig up a hill with a fingernail,
chew iron with your teeth;
as though, having heaved a rock upon your head,
you sought a footing in the abyss (pātāla);
as though you dashed your breast against a stump —
so would you make Gotama grow weary and turn away."
Blazing in splendor they came —
Taṇhā, Aratī, and Ragā —
but the Teacher swept them away right there,
as the wind a fallen tuft of cotton.
The Third Vagga (chapter).
[Siam edition variant notes: ¹ Ma. (Burmese): gaṇasaṅghacārī. ² Sī. (Sinhalese): tarissanti. ³ Yu. (European): acchijja. ⁴ Ma., Yu.: usūyā. ⁵ Ma., Yu.: the reading daddallamānā appears. ⁶ Sī., Yu.: māruto.]
The summary (uddāna) thereof:
Sambahulā (the Many) and Samiddhi,
Godhika, Sattavassāni (the Seven Years),
and Dhītaraṃ (the Daughters) —
this pentad on Māra was taught by the supreme Buddha.
The Mārasaṃyutta (saṃyutta) is concluded.
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BHIKKHUNĪSAṂYUTTA
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First: the Āḷavikā Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.